[NewMusic] Flower ELectronics

[David Van Brink]

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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, lx rudis wrote:

> now S,
>
> accept the calling.  your true geekish calling.  get a sensorslab.
>
> or an sk-1.
>
> i've an extra sk-1 lying about here.
> would you like to start with that?
>
> the sensuality of low voltage tickling the balls of your fingers can be
> positively exquisite.  open the case.  it struggles briefly under your
> screwdriver then *pop*...it's secrets now lie bare.  it has yielded to you.
>
> run your fingers gently across the circuit board, sarah.
> it wants to be touched, it wants NEW CONNECTIONS.  it cries out!
>
> touch it.  touch it again.  remember the patterns, remember the path you
> take!
>
> galvanic skin response, sarah.  the erotic possibilities of a bitstream
> pulsing its way across a rippling pond of silvery traces on a green board, a
> green which is dark as deep, still water, as dark as a secret.
>
> locate a diode, where sensation can suddenly stop. . .  .    .     .
> .
>
>
>
>
> ..then start again.
>
> another circuit closes under your gentle caress.  innovation without
> conscious thought.  a new place, invented by you and the sk-1.  symbiots.
> unique to you both, this new place.
>
> it cannot be shared.  yet.
>
> and the gentle rhythms begin anew, your flesh registering the call of
> electrons twittering like small birds nestling in the boughs of a tree.
> calling to you.  begging for an LED, or a switch, a capacitor or possibly
> even a thumbtack brought out to the sleek grey surface of the instrument.
>
> and then, then it is time to mount the switches, standing proud off the
> control panel.  or the jacks, so inviting.  a thumbtack head, placed
> just-so, demanding to be touched, again again again and again!
>
> yes, pierce the plastic sarah! introduce new FORM into the perfection of
> this mass produced device.  you give it LIFE, sarah.  you make it YOURS,
> sarah.  circuitbending sarah.  circuitbending.  join us.
> joinnnn usssssss.....
>
> :D
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Sarah - 21 Grand <21grand at 21grand.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Mr. Rudis wrote:
>> god we are such geeks.
>>
>> - speak for yourself.
>>
>>  has everyone unsubbed yet?
>>
>> - obviously not.
>>
>> sl
>>
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