Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)
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Re: Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)
#2Detailed explanation of controllers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MuKTkukIw&t=10s
Re: Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)
#3I'm a fan of his music and respect his aesthetics. But, these are not musical instruments. They are mostly MIDI controllers. They don't actually generate sound with mechanical means. They are theater props.
Re: Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)
#4I'm a fan of his music and respect his aesthetics. But, these are not musical instruments. They are mostly MIDI controllers. They don't actually generate sound with mechanical means. They are theater props.
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Re: Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)
#5I'm a fan of his music and respect his aesthetics. But, these are not musical instruments. They are mostly MIDI controllers. They don't actually generate sound with mechanical means. They are theater props.
I don’t agree that they’re just props: they’re analog controllers and so the form factor and manner of their use directly affects the music being played. Even the controllers that are just “big heavy knobs on bearings” are fundamentally different to a typical knob on a synthesiser in terms of the signal they produce and the sound that ends up being made.
Re: Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)
#6I'm a fan of his music and respect his aesthetics. But, these are not musical instruments. They are mostly MIDI controllers. They don't actually generate sound with mechanical means. They are theater props.
Also there's no planet where his music is "industrial metal". Could see him getting lumped in with the Power Electronics genre though.
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#7Looking forward to listening to this when I can. Danny Carey is my favorite musician, if he’s collaborating on this it should be amazing.
Re: Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)
#8I'm a fan of his music and respect his aesthetics. But, these are not musical instruments. They are mostly MIDI controllers. They don't actually generate sound with mechanical means. They are theater props.
I don’t see how the fact that they make sound digitally in any way makes them less of an instrument. MIDI controllers are instruments- and incredibly flexible ones with almost limitless sound possibilities at that.
Re: Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)
#9Didn’t even have to open the link to know it was Author and Punisher.
Great aesthetics. Reminds me a lot of early Throbbing Gristle in the DIY process of the work. Very inspiring.
Much like nerds who build cyber decks and mod retro computers and console.
Re: Mechanical Engineer creates instruments for his one-man metal band (2022)
#10Didn’t even have to open the link to know it was Author and Punisher. Great aesthetics. Reminds me a lot of early Throbbing Gristle in the DIY process of the work. Very inspiring. Much like nerds who build cyber decks and mod retro computers and console.
> Didn’t even have to open the link to know it was Author and Punisher.
Had exactly the same reaction