MOTORIZED GUITAR PLAYS MODULAR SYNTH

Hanging Out With Audiophiles is my long running podcast where, every episode, I get into a technical matter (aka Nitty) in the studio then chat with a fine guest and REPEAT!
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For this video special NITTY I strap a motor onto a guitar with silly putty, convert the string vibrations into gate signals to clock a pitch sequencer that's part of my eurorack synth setup.
A Moog theramin is used to additionally mess with time and sound.
The pitch antenna controls motor speed and the volume alters pitch and tone (this theremin has CV outputs)
The unit that does most of the heavy lifting here is the excellent koma electronics "field kit"
koma-elektroni...
This is not a sponsored vid. I just like this thing :)
Hope this is entertaining in some capacity.
Lovingly crafted voltage Twangs from Nashville

[@vinylarchaeologist]

Holy cow, I am just a guy on the Internet and you are Jamie Lidell. But Holy cow, Jamie Lidell, your content is awesome and in dire need of more views! Let me summon the mighty algorithm. Or at least do my little part in it. This is a fucking awesome channel.

[@bass349]

Absolutely love this Jamie, it’s nuts. Thanks so much for the HOWA Podcasts, I’ve listened to every one! Always love the Nitty Gritty sections.. and the video is fantastic, please do more :)

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

Andy O'Neil too kind sir ! I’ll keep em coming :) a little insight from the cave !

[@riadabdel-nabi7398]

I mean Hainbach is already crazy ... but this f*cking blows my mind. Love it!! Down the rabbit hole and goodbye.

[@alexandreenkerli9361]

Liking this videogritty even more than other vids and than the audio version of the same gritty. Work of art and craft and crazy and teaching and exploration…

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

very much appreciated ! I'll hopefully get better at these over time. So glad you Dig it!

[@jamesthomas8823]

you're a madman - love the pod and can't wait for more videos. this was awesome!!

[@corbensmusic9968]

So awesome!! Would love to see more Nitty Vids!

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

Corbens Music oh yes! Thanks for your feedback. Gives me juice to make more :)

[@rudyklobas2437]

This is the coolest nitty you’ve done in a long time, Jamie. Bravo 👏

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

Rudy Klobas too kind !

[@andreedipo6356]

Video gritty! And obviously the guitar is a funky Hofner. Funny that the other day was listening to an old episode of haninging out (maybe the atrak one)and you were saying something like “i don’t get the modular thing”. It’s great that you’re more than getting it. Hope it’s all good with the family.

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

André Édipo thank you. Family is well. Feel for folks in the big cities. Modular life is so fun. If only there were 48 hours in a day !

[@andreedipo6356]

HANGING OUT WITH AUDIOPHILES I’m in Madrid, man. A month without getting out of the house (small apartment), with two kids 6 and 8. You tell me! But everybody’s healthy and we’re privileged we can stay at home.

[@No.0.o.0]

Love it! Would also love to hear you mess with that Folktek Matter 2. This is giving me ideas, but also lusting for switcher module....

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

you know the matter has sat unloved for some time. Great piece though. so unique! I need to crack into it!

[@No.0.o.0]

@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES i was just playing with my alter 2, the reverb alone is just so weird with the two filters. Gorgeous sweet spots 🖤 i want a matter

[@noqueenblues7347]

hello there. great stuff you have going on there. great righ as well. uff. anyway, did not catch that aux out bit (1:46-1:55) are you running aux out to where? some sort of gate converter (koma aux out to detect r-x in and from there it generates gate output wchic runs further into other modules)? wow. so are you converting autdio signal into gate/cv signal? wow. sorry I am new into modular synthesis. I kind of understand meaning of cv (not as much gate and envelope, one day i will though). sometimes I have hard time with audio and differentiate between audio sighnal and cv signal too (when both in one module). my field kit is on the way as I found one cheap on the net and I always liked it. so far I have a lifeforms sv/1, clouds, benjoling, morphagene. I know I should start concentrating now on lfo's, filters etc, but I could not resist to get that koma field kit, when stubmled upon cheap one. hope i can incorporate it into my rig mentioned above.

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

Right ! You got it. The R-x turns the audio from the guitar to a gate that advances the sequencer.

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

A little discussion about audio vs cv signals here: muffwiggler.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=187212

[@noqueenblues7347]

@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES thank you sir. I just ordered mutable instruments ears module. looking forward to it.

[@noqueenblues7347]

@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES thank you sir. i am about to read it.

[@federicouffreduzzi2601]

Ok. This blew my mind.

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

:) thanks man. Was definitely a lot of set up but these things always teach me so much ! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@joshfalcon3690]

The Original Roland D beam but with a pink sock and much cooler!!

[@ludop2066]

Jamie Lidell on KZbin is the crazy scientist I was expecting.

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

Always in the lab! thanks for the feedback :))

[@ludop2066]

@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES thank YOU for the inspiring content. I’ve been a fan since the super_collider days but I never got the chance to see you live here. Looking forward to the end of the pandemic so I can get myself some tickets for an upcoming tour!

[@topofthemornintoya]

Hero

[@Ouiji_gator]

Just subscribed what kind of guitar is that?

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

hofner :)

[@LoudPaul1]

Cool jam, but why is the guitar needed at all? Surely you could hit the contact mic with the motor directly for the same result

[@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES]

Well the guitar is making a sound at times. It’s part of the band :)

[@LoudPaul1]

@@HANGINGOUTWITHAUDIOPHILES fair enough, thanks for the response Jamie! Lately I've been clocking my modular with contact mics placed on my drum kit, and it's very inspiring indeed

[@hotbeatz0]

You seriously need to put out a techno/synth album to go along with the singer/songwriter one

[@ludop2066]

oh man would love to hear Jamie go back to his technoself

[@madagekartonowy4935]

I'm gonna unlike that nitty so i can like it again ;) Thanks for HOWA - been listening from the beginning. HOWA clearly is the best.thing.ever.