Fabrica de Unicornios Muertos: A Freaky Switched Capacitor Filter Eurorack Module

Presented at A New HOPE (2022), July 23, 2022, 7 p.m. (50 minutes)

Introducing VF's first DIY Eurorack module - the Fabrica de Unicornios Muertos! It's a switched capacitor filter, which is kind of a different beast than your usual techno sweepy-resonance things. Instead, it works harmonically - meaning as you turn the knob, things get freaky. And if those sounds are already freaky, things get freakier. It makes things crunch, chirp, and sputter and once that's over, it lets you in on the sounds behind the sounds. It's also a skiff-friendly 6 hp - always good when adding a touch of flavor without filling up your case. For this workshop, no prior electronics experience is needed and yes, you get to keep this module at the end of the workshop. Some synths will be available for testing, but if you want to share your setup, nothing's stopping it from tagging along to jam the sweet space music once this thing's all buttoned up.


Presenters:

  • Travis Johns
    **Travis Johns** is the head of VauxFlores, an audio electronics company that specializes in the design and manufacture of unusual sound-making devices. Inspired by a fascination with analog electronics, as well as a good minute spent in the trenches of experimental music, he strives to create devices that tip the hat to the unheralded relics of the past, focusing on the sounds of the underground - whether they be garage rock, tropicalia, space music, swamp blues, harsh-noise, field hollers, non-idiomatic western free-improvisation... and so on.

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