The retro-futurist work of instrument designer Arius Blaze involves Edison-era-looking electronics that are, in fact, devices of exploratory music-making.
Packed inside the wooden box that is Drone Scape X, shown here, is just such a sonic engine. Its capabilities are described by Blaze as follows: “Based on step shifting oscillation run through a built in delay — capable of extremely tight notated repeats and up to about 1.5 seconds.” To further show off the piece, he’s recorded these six drones. The results range from chaotic noise-mongering (MP3) to raging industrial shudders (MP3) to glitch-laced white noise (MP3) to sheets of bright static (MP3) to android vocalizations (MP3) to field recordings of alien mission control (MP3).
More on the equipment, which is for sale in a limited edition, at folktek.blogspot.com.