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Inspired in part by Leif Elggren's Virulent Images/Virulent Sound (if images can be virulent, can sound be virulent too?), blackdeath is the first open hardware/free software noise synthesiser with the plague inside.

Embedding epidemic and plague simulations amongst other data generation algorithms for granular re-synthesis of incoming audio signals or self-generated feedback, blackdeath represents a virulent yet highly controllable noise/audio engine with built-in, switchable distortion.

blackdeath can be delivered fully assembled, and features high quality ALPS potentiometers, BOSS style 9v power socket (+V on the outside), and full size (6.5mm) JACK input and output sockets. The sheer, black design follows John Dee's Sigillum DEI, according to the instructions of the Angels given in Mysteriorum Liber Secundus.

For further details please see:

http://1010.co.uk/org/blackdeath.html

Launch price: 110 euros with free shipping worldwide

Sold out - pre-order here for delivery after 1.2.2012!

New gherkin tin housed digital/analogue noise synth featuring the same data generation software as the meganoise below (cellular automata, strange attractor, L-systems) but without the extensive granulation and sampling properties. Spreewald is a self-contained NO-INPUT noise generation unit revealing complex time-dependent possibilities despite limited interaction and again delivering a wide spectrum of sound across crash, glitch and bass.

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Portable implementation (with coil) of Leon Chua's chaotic oscillator with a range from pure sine wave to chaos and bifurcation phenomena. This chaotic generator is particularly useful for control. In custom metal housing with switch, mono full-size jack and one potentiometer/knob for tuning into chaotic region. Now operates from a single 9v battery.

Circuit: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Chua\_circuit

Byron is a flexible, low budget open hardware and free software platform for fast, multiple sensor input and control over USB. Byron differs from other solutions in terms of speed, simplicity and low cost. At the same time Byron is able to assume new identities, functioning one moment as a microcontroller programmer, the next as keyboard device. Byron is based on Objective Development's V-USB software.

For more details see: byron

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Generates random numbers based on a transistor avalanche white noise module with additional squaring up of wave, sampling with microcontroller (ATmega8), unbiasing and serial USB interface. Can be used with free software [/dev/random] as a hardware RNG for encryption, research and PK applications. The RNG performs well under many industry-standard tests examining random number distribution.

Broadband 100 MHz to 2.4 GHz radio receiver (amplitude demodulation - using only RSSI signal strength) - includes Wireless signal, using Analog devices AD8313. Broadband high frequency signals rendered audible and (to some degree) visible.

VLF (Very Low Frequency) receiver for use with a small wire coil (included) as very close range EM (Electromagnetic) sniffer/audio. Very good, precise audio results.

New design for a ready constructed ELF/VLF natural radio receiver unit roughly based on the NASA INSPIRE VLF-3 receiver. Small unit in metal housing (without telescopic antenna) for listening and recording both natural and man-made ELF and VLF audio-frequency (between 300 Hz and 10 kHz) radio emissions. The unit has two mini-jack (3.5mm) plugs for both a recording device (mic level input) and headphones (with volume control), and a BNC socket for antenna connection (only). A (9v) battery is included. The device is only suitable for use away from power lines within the countryside or a large city park.

See: http://1010.co.uk/elf2.pdf

xxxxx_peenemünde presents documentation, archive material and original research resulting from the first series of working groups in Peenemünde conducted in early 2008. This speculative event, described in the work, was projected as an intense, conspiratorial expedition and meeting within a key, historical location. xxxxx_peenemünde actively examines a fiction which presents a dark heart of technology (as evidenced by electromagnetic practice), and a vivid relation to both entropy and ecology.

[the] xxxxx [reader] is a comprehensive anthology of world and life re-coding strategies, collecting background text, Lisp and Perl program listings, and screenshots. See: reader

Single edition prepared hard drive 2010.

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