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Collection of hacked voice recorders. Designed as a collection, each has unique controls for providing simple interaction with freely recordable signal. No electronic signal input or output connections are provided. Input must be acoustic; output must be acoustic or electromagnetically coupled through coil pickups or inductor table.
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The Apiary was designed and constructed for Coppice by Andrew Furse.
The Apiary is a double-feeder, double bellows free-reed aerophone. It contains two independent/identical air reservoirs with interchangeable reed-board tops. Sounds are obtained by opening small wooden slides that cover holes directly above block-mounted reeds. The feeder bellows are hand pumped and fill opposing wedge-shaped reservoirs pressurized by spring force. The air chest constitutes a near entirety of the instrument where all bellows and reed-boards are mounted. Folding legs allow the Apiary to be easily transported and played either sitting or standing.
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The Multi-Material Filter is a physical signal processor that uses a high-voltage piezoelectric driver and a passive pickup, both attached to the same material, to send an audio signal vibrating through any chosen material (metal, clay, etc).
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Ten channel microphone preamp designed for the installation of spot microphones into an Estey Pump Organ that had been prepared with very specific placements of reeds. The ten microphones have independent attenuation control and are mixed into two groups of five an sent to separate outputs. All control and power is connected outside the organ and fed through to the inside through a flat ribbon in order to keep from making any permanent modifications to the antique instrument.
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This Vinculum sound sculpture feeds sound energy into physical materials to highlight new sonic aspects based on the properties of acrylic, aluminum, clay, glass, metal, paper, and polystyrene foams.
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Continuing the study of recontextualization of audio from the Vinculum archive, a set of five audio-induced sound sculptures was designed and constructed for performed installation presentations.
The five “Screens” (thin surfaces of copper, brass, galvanized steel, cork, and acrylic) are materially excited by induced audio, yielding new, multiple timbral variations to be experienced spatially. They form modular arrangements of various shapes, intended to be encircled by a listening audience.
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A physical signal processor that amplifies sound through a copper plate while simultaneously picking up sound through the same plate. Eight piezoelectric discs are affixed to the back of an 11” diameter copper plate. The device’s electronics allow two signals to be taken in, amplified, and driven through the plate using any two piezoelectric elements. The remaining six can be selectively used as microphones to pick up the vibrations of the sound in the plate at different locations. Internal normaling allows multiple elements to be combined internally. Physical manipulation of the plate and placement of objects on the plate can be heard through the copper as well as altering the sounds that are being played through it.
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Collection of oscillators with no electronic output. The inductors used in the resonance tanks of the circuit provide effective electromagnetic output for pick up through the coils in an inductor table. The fields generated by the boxes interact with each other and can be altered by magnets and magnetically permeable materials.
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