Three modules form a whole synthesizer, the centerpiece of my work
A combination of three handmade, semi-modular devices. Each one needs the rest to work properly.
I’m not sure if it’s really effective, but since they are really specific devices, they can be used with similar devices to route them with each other.
Yafurula Generator is the main piece. A sequencer that contains the power supply for the whole synthesizer. It’s built inside an old German cigarettes box I bought in the studio of a sound artist who makes synthesizers professionally and needed to get rid of a lot of stuff. Its slopping shape make it ideal for working with patch cables.
With 16 connections and 8 cables to patch them in many ways, it creates sequences of different length. It’s not an 8-step sequencer: the pattern length depends on the number of cables connected to each other.
Second device is the CLOCK, responsible for the bpm and the speed of the sequence.
Also built in a metal cigarettes case, it works with just one control for the frequency with a LED light that blinks with the tempo. The odd fact is the supply comes from the same cable that the device is using for the output. So same cable is working as input and output of different current flows.
Yafurula Rebelwaver is the third of these devices, completing the sound synthesis. It’s sound generator with two oscillators and it is also supplied by the sequencer.
Best part of this one is the sound produced when it gets a pattern from the sequencer. There’s a special knob position that controls the first oscillator’s frequency and produces glitches when the resistor is hitting up too much. The noise produced is fucking great, but doesn’t last long. Each time this happens, the resistor starts to get hot faster and the noise is every time shorter and shorter, until the resistor gets burned and damaged and it needs to be exchanged for a new one.
What I like the most is to work with all this temporal fails and glitches. They’re totally random, with different outcomes. It always surprises you. It’s this random behaviour what makes it really exciting, knowing that you will just have a certain sound for a short period of time and then it will go away.
