For the first session of Expanded Studio Practice, we focused on the ambiguity and physicality of sound objects and alternative uses for the basic electronic components that make up those sound objects. In this instance, the class used various speaker drives to create a Victorian Synthesizer, which in context is the overall object associated to the exploration of basic components that make up complex audio devices (Bowers, 2016). Focusing on polarity and the consistency/inconsistency of electricity flowing between the terminals and a 9v battery, we were individually able to create a relatively steady square waveform that was played from the primitive ‘speaker’.

Here are visual and sonic examples from this in class project:

Bowers, John (2016) The Victorian Synthesizer. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/160/14