HW: more from me i'm afraid

[Doug Pearson]

coming from the voice of Walrus <walrus at THORAZINE.NEURON.NET>...:

>the question on everyone's lips tho is:
>whats the deal with del's axe-synth-thing ??

Axe strung with piano wire? guitar/bass string? something ...
with electrical pickup attached (electro-acoustic transducer, like a
microphone that is - not electromagnetic like a guitar pickup) ...
plugged into frequency->voltage converter ...
plugged into VCS3 synthesizer (according to Del, the exact same unit that
was used on HotMG; his previous one got fried when it was plugged in on a
German tour without a power adapter - oops!) ...
controls various analog synthesizer parameters by the output voltage levels
(depending on adjustments of knobs and positions of patch-pegs) in lieu of
a keyboard ...
makes those incredibly weird semi-random noises you hear on the 'Space
Ritual 94' double-CD!

Really a brilliant "user interface" concept ... much more interesting than
controlling a synthesizer with a keyboard (keyboards = boring; knobs,
sliders, theremins, radio batons, television sets, axes = cool).

        -Doug
         ceres at sirius.com