Saturday Synth Porn: The Ciat Lonbarde Tetrazzi Organus looks a bit like it could be the Flintstones’ synthesizer – but it basically combines an experimental electronic music instrument with a handcrafted, organic interface.
Here’s what the designer has to say about it:
Tetrazzi is the newest incarnation of the Organus series, a mandala of analog oscillator circuits that can cross-modulate to form the empire of infinite circuitry known as pure sonic chaos.
The tetrazzi boards shall be assembled by machine in Colorado, they will be perfect, and sonde-tested here in the workshop in Baltimore. All you need to complete it is four piezo barres, four bottons, four knobs, two output jacks, twelve studdes of brass, and a battery clip; all the hard stuff having already been done by a machine man!
Electronically, it represents some of the more profound electronic complices that were developed in the 20th century,nsuch as Buchla Source of Uncertainty, U.S. Navy Phantastron Radar Circuit, and Piezoelectric Flex Technology.
It is a way to make the touch-sensitivity of human organs into touch-sensitivity on the pipe organ, pipe here meaning “squishing electron flow via ceramic transducer”.
The Tetrazzi Organus is available in several options, ranging from a barebones kit for $267.89 to a completed instrument for $490.77.
It burns my ears. Make it stop!
$267.89 to assemble a device that sounds like a donkey having digestive problems?
NO THANKS
It's cheaper than a Buchla.
yes, so?
i can make ungodly noise in Reaktor without having to spend a dime on this or on any overpriced and overhyped analog device.