THE First Surviving BENJOLIN Synthesizer. And the story is quite interesting!

The Blippo Extravaganza Benjolin, The survivng Plinth, Built By the late Rob Hordijk and Kassen. Which is believed to be the first surviving Benjolin, or very close to that!
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[@Hainbach]

Thanks for letting me play with this piece of history! Just picked up my Blippoo from customs yesterday. RIP Rob.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Awesome! How is it?

[@Hainbach]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER No time to play since yesterday 😭

[@Waccoon]

That thing reminds me of the good old days when I was obsessed with RAMscanning. You know, playing your computer's memory directly through a speaker. Now I can enjoy all the same sounds without needing a computer!

[@SeleenShadowpaw]

Oh that sounds like a lot of fun. How do you even start setting that up :D?

[@Waccoon]

@@SeleenShadowpaw Modern computers don't really let you do it, though I think you can still "pipe" memory to the speaker device in Linux. I wrote my own RAMscanner for the Amiga computer specifically to do this, but I never released it. After 30 years, perhaps I should. 8) An easy substitute is to load an executable file or DLL into a sound editor as a RAW 8-bit signed file and play it. Instead of listening to audio, you'll be listening to code. Program code can make some really interesting sounds, while image and video files typically just produce static.

[@BingoBongoBengo]

Was not expecting to love the sounds coming out of that threatening monolith as much as I did!

[@muppetpaster]

Rob (Hordijk) was a close familyfriend....Dearly missed.

[@AB-Prince]

I would love to be able to replicate the circuits, to incorperate into a 'tardis console' simulator. because part of the alure to me of the tardis' control pannel is that every control is important and has a pupose, but it is entirely non-linear in how each control efects how all the other controls interact.

[@jo___dem]

Rungler schematic is easily accessible online

[@andrewdixon681]

His philosophy on that machine is truly amazing

[@wiresmith2398]

Aiiiii, you ought to see if you can build the Temporally Displaced Third Monolith to complete the Benjolin again! I love it!

[@Musikkeller-Innsider]

It's unpredictable and really gnarly, I love the sound!

[@umbertoyltp]

I have been to the festival in The Hague in a distant past and saw it in action. Kids love it because no knowledge is required. Coñgrats with the Museum's adoption, it found a proper home.❤

[@colinstu]

Happy to finally check out the museum a month ago! So much to take in and play with, was fun! Got to play around with this as well! Also you are taller than I expected xD guess I didn't really know what to expect.

[@user-oy9ou8ve1y]

If anyone is wondering what he was trying to pronounce, he visited De Besturing in The Hague.

[@tjebbevanderkooij276]

This brings back lots of memories, Remember picking this up and playing with it, and while doing a acidset that night in the army tent we had to play around it as it made sound constantly, people freaking out on it an interplaying with the acid set super awesome, Wished I had a recording of that, Those where some great times, all days its sounds being tweaked by random people, oh fun can see myself hiding behind Kassen in the truck while we unloaded it at the festival, Would have been nice to show u the radiotonka studio and the place rob worked in the villa maybe another time! also we where painting more then 10.000 toy soldiers with blue helmets and placed all around the tent also there where these wooden soldiers that where shooting each other out side of the tent made by kassen en rob bothof it all was pure chaos etc ...best editon of todaysart ever doing guerilla art on the streets, And as part of a statement too the city council too have more culturural places primarily empty buildings and organizing events we then squatted an old cinema called asta as part of the conflict and too use the then many empty buildings for art and music which in the end we sort achieved, also during the night after the festival ended I was caretaker save guarding the installations, turned to the benjolin which was still on in the night freakin and passing time with it,, which made the local police go bonkers! great fun anyways great to see it again and tanks for making me remember this awesome time I had.

[@spaceman103]

Cheese, tulips, weed and Benjolins. Rob Hordijk made the real Dutch staple. We should do a makeover of the national anthem with it.😊

[@gastonsounds]

Well this is just wonderful, thank you for sharing

[@eden_grey]

This is fantastic!!

[@добродобро]

11:37 this part right there is a pure cinema

[@raketensessel5570]

What a fine machine! Very inspiring sounds.

[@TheDistur]

You're always hunting down the coolest stuff!

[@gutterg0d]

I think it's the cool stuff that gravitate toward Sam, not the other way around.

[@padders1068]

Thanks Sam! That's a nice if not totally bonkers 😂 piece of kit! 🙂😎❤

[@maartendb8107]

legendary Bunker Records Hoodie

[@atomikaya]

I can't leave you with just butt bot comments! Amazing job mate, I always enjoy your videos :)

[@OmBotCult]

I love it!

[@traumgeist]

Now you have to build a benjolele to accompany it.

[@hakology]

love it :)

[@dedicatedspuddler7641]

Way out, way cool!

[@NKHHOTUK]

That sounds so cool

[@phildxyz]

I feel like I've been transported back to the 70s and the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition by Peter Zinovieff. Yes, I'm so old I was there :) Great to bump into you at Avoncroft the other week - keep doing the mad stuff!

[@EntropicEcho]

Never heard of the good man but did some digging around. That dude was ahead of his time, really interesting. Thanks for sharing!

[@phildxyz]

@@EntropicEcho Fascinating chap and as you say, way ahead of his time. Discovered he was a Russian nobleman who sold his ex wife's tiara to buy his first computer! The exhibition was at The ICA in The Mall in London. I was only about 11 at the time but it was a formative experience. Robots, Computers and weird sound machines - what's not to like :)

[@EntropicEcho]

@@phildxyz Amazing, I can imagine what kind of impression that would make on an 11 year old in that time. Awesome!

[@Colin_Ames]

Fascinating story.

[@RichardHartness]

The dissonance of that box (especially imagining two across from each other, separated by about a meter) sounds terrible, obnoxious and super-annoying. Hearing it's genesis and purpose makes this a true piece of art. It's amazing how context can 100% shift someone's perspective. I really hate that the opposite one was cannibalized and destroyed. This is a fascinating piece of machinery and art.

[@wariusgaius]

I am stroking my beard right now

[@andrewhaggerty549]

You Time Lords are going to save the world. ❤

[@LarsDonner]

Makes me wonder what kind of power source could be used, so that it really can't be turned off for the next 100 years

[@brucegoatly]

"'Ere, do you know one of the knobs 'as fallen off?" "Nah, but you 'um it and I'll pick it up."

[@imark7777777]

I guess I'm not the only one who noticed that and then thay miraculously reappeared.

[@SeleenShadowpaw]

I mean i _did_ find it. But the promised video on benjolins in general is actually linked _nowhere_ around here if i can see correctly x3

[@dekumarademosater2762]

Came for the ch😊aos, was not disappointed

[@weapea]

Propably kraakbox with atari punk console and simplest oscillator inside..👍 my "mod6" sounds the similar on some times.. i dont remeber what i put inside it, but an old c-cassette player and other electro stuff 😊

[@jukingeo]

It reminds me a lot of the WSG or Weird Sound Generator from Music From Outer Space. I would be surprised if it is based on that.

[@davisuture9610]

Our Benjolin is my favourite instrument, the PCB was chemically burnt into life in my friend's sink.

[@andywatts8654]

It’s all about the Benjolins baby

[@howardmaryon]

When Sam meets Hainbach, cool sounds occur.

[@orchestratedpassage9468]

giving conflict the reacharound

[@howardmaryon]

This object looks like it came out of a Soviet scifi film in the 1960’s

[@boimesa8190]

Damn! Cant there be a mini version made of this?!

[@DaveBenhamMusic]

There are many, many Benjolins out in this world. Rob published plans for how to build them and gave workshops where people created their own. Many people still do. There are at least two companies currently building and selling Benjolins, including one in Eurorack format (After Later Audio). A virtual version can be created for free with VCV Rack and free modules. In my Venom plugin for VCV I have created a Benjolin Oscillator that includes the two oscillators and the Rungler - all it needs is a resonant state variable filter module to create a functioning Benjolin.

[@Damage1980]

I want one! 😍 Want to know what's inside

[@pasde2]

Sam's (old) video on the Benjolin : kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJCsmHiliNmNhM0

[@jirioto6089]

Nice sonic changer.

[@martinfox9443]

6❤❤❤ very cool 😎 madness

[@boimesa8190]

Agga represent! Rust in vrede Rob!

[@arykanary93]

Such a shame that I missed you at cafe Bosch..

[@FredBloggs919]

Ha! Somebody else had the Operation idea!!

[@LoxleyMusic]

9:50 There's no such screenshot.

[@marksieczko7766]

Yeah, "necessity is the Mother of Invention", "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration", "You can get it if really want", "Keep on truckin'"

[@cerealkilled3871]

Hey Sam, I live in the USA, and as such coming to visit your museum is a bit of a hassle. Any chance you want to collab with someone state side to build the Not Opsleum?

[@InFamousProductions]

Fucking cool!

[@althejazzman]

This thing is completely chaotic and random. A perfect reflection of conflict! Do the lines mean anything?

[@conceptfrequencymod]

Do the lines mean anything? Not really :D It matches my Mobile Modu;lar Synth caravan

[@althejazzman]

@@conceptfrequencymod That's all that matters!

[@buckstarchaser2376]

How does it... ehhh... how does it werk?

[@adadinthelifeofacyclist]

Visit Petr Valek!

[@blenderbuch]

Hmmm? Did i miss it at the show in Berlin?

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

It was on the merch desk

[@blenderbuch]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER maybe I was too flashed after your show or I just did not recognize it 😎

[@arlekeno_]

Can we have that module plan?

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Just search up benjolin

[@markae0]

Bigger than life

[@curtishoffmann6956]

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

[@stoned466]

[@colinhockings]

Did you go to The Hague because of your crimes against Furbies?

[@LoxleyMusic]

3:46 Hey! That's Kassen Oud! He's a twit. I hope it wasn't too unpleasant for you to have to talk to him. I'd advice to avoid any interactions with him in the future.

[@AnalogDude_]

5:04 number one, you can't adjust the volume, lol. Cool machine, you should write "conlict" on it with tape. I hope you liked the Netherlands, did you saw / drive the constant 10 lane wide and sometimes wide A2, highway? That's the widest highway in europe, that piece is like 30 km long. Check the workings from the "struder 961 mixer" in the "archiv", SWISS MADE!!! The FETS audio switches with fade, the "EQ", you should design a 24 channel mono mixer with stereo pan and 4 stereo busses. voltage controlled fader, the eq from the "struder", send/ return, input amp mechanism (synth/line) with overload led (opamp wave rectifier circuit from Falstad). use the "NE5534" opamp, this one is used in mixers, use CD4013 for the FETS (audio switches), but driven from "+/-10V" logic! One board per channel, in 90º from the mainboard with the faders and switches, buttons. some kind of modular system with Neutric in/outputs nd chep options to replace broken stuf. I have simulated the "FET audio switches" as described with CD4013 and it works perfect! the best choice is fet optocoupler "H11" and calculate 20 mA from 10V, that's what I'm routing right now, a dual channel audio switch module. the Pan circuit are 4 equal resistor of 50K with 50K pot with the wiper to GND, shaped in sort of an X. There is also SWISS audio amplifier company, you need to bring at least 2 "new" cars for trade for a "stereo" amplifier. But it does somehow look like swiss made watch, indestructible.

[@TheEntireUniverse]

Oh cmon you have to open it up and figure out how the circuits actually work!!! It sounds too cool not to share that knowledge

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Shared the benjolin circuit info in the last vid on it. Just search up benjolin. Lots on it. This video is not about the benjolin circuit but the first benjolin

[@rachorman7087]

Hola , soy tu vecino. ¿Podrías dejar de hacer esos ruidos a las 4 am?

[@alienzardsketter.9076]

You cant make music on a computer,,, its not a music interment...this fart box sounds amazing .

[@NinoJoel]

7:12 *Eww* 🤮 Berlin

[@chloedevereaux1801]

not a synth, its a tone / noise generator with modulation....... not playable at all........

[@organfairy]

I'm reminded of an old Dilbert comic strip where the lazy, smelly, and disorganised Wally is asked to solve a problem in the design department. He is presented to a weird gadget with a shape roughly like his bald head. The designer says "all it does is take up space and smell bad" to which Wally reasons that "it sounds like a gift object". In this case we can say that 'all it does is take up space and make noise' and Sam clearly sees it as a gift object too 🙂

[@erlannderrantem6972]

A synth or synthesizer is EVERYTHING that creates sound synthetically, so it in fact is a Synth, whether you like it or not.

[@dekumarademosater2762]

Can't play it. Can play with it. Words are funny things. Sounds, however, are Very Important Things, or vastly amusing and wonderfilled - depends on the soul.

[@FiglioBastardo]

I'd love to see y'all add an "Infrasubwoofer" to y'all's set-up!

[@AATRAXX]