Koka's Drone Box No. 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ธ.ค. 2024
- I love four-voice polyphony. There's something about the number four. I like it when four objects converse with each other.
This is my Drone Box No. 1. It's a four-voice physical synthesiser, for drones and more. The sound is produced by turning stepper motors that sit on the wooden box. Different objects attached to the motors change the character of the sound. Selecting and attaching the objects is like physical mixing. A pinecone adds rich buzz and makes the sound more like a square wave synthesiser, an egg doesn't do much and leaves the work to the box, a paper cup makes the sound rounder and a brass coil provides resonant overtones. I exchange objects all the time.
You can control the box with MIDI, either from a keyboard or from a computer. There is also a clever automatic voice management mode, so you can improvise without thinking which motor to turn. I've added pitch bending, vibrato, different kinds of tremolo and some other expressions. I'll add more.
And the second iteration of the box will have a single button on the side, so you can create a playlist of MIDI files on a SD card and play music during your morning coffee, just like with any music player. I’ll design more drone boxes.
#art #modernart #contemporaryart #musicbox #sculpture #engineering #woodworking #arduino
This the most insanely creative thing I’ve seen in years. Something that would intrigue anyone from John Cage to EDM artists to vintage synth lovers. Well done.
This was spectacular. I feel like this channel's going to get very popular soon.
I hope it does!
SOMEHOW it hasn't yet but soon....
finally
I’m actually shocked this channel isn’t larger, production quality of a million subs at least! Outstanding!
There is so much detail in this production you make me speechless. Had to watch 4 times in a row and will come back. Lovely work!
Ugh. This was amazing, when notes resonate like that. Always makes me cry.
masterpiece, once in a decade genius, who deserves mass recognition.
This music is sick Holy crap
Absolutely fantastic and very innovative, fun and original....What more can I say...
People talk about doing something different. THIS WAS THAT!! Straight 🔥
I LOVE this. Easiest subscribe ever. I look forward to following your journey into making these amazingly creative, funny (and well-documented!) instruments.
Cool
You should consider uploading this song to streaming services; I'd love to throw it into some of my playlists.
I second this!
And I third, etc. this belongs to be heard by everyone.
disgustingly heavy for such a simple machine... drooling-----
Pure creative genius that we've come to expect. Isn't there an award you should be picking up somewhere?
A stadium performance awaiting? An oscar for best sound track?
This shit is so fire and original it doesn't even make sense, like how tf do you even come up with this, mfing genius
Yes, wonderful, more drone boxes please!
I have to stop whatever I'm doing as soon as I see you upload something. So happy to see another music box! This performance was fantastic, as usual.
Thank you so much!
As always : wonderful, powerful, weird and smart.
You are my favourite artist and you blow my mind every time
❤️
👍
Kinda floored by this, my friend. Great composition and great timbres you've developed.
Everything about this video is amazing
très impressionnant - bravo j'aime beaucoup
Thank you
Lov u koka
Your music is amazing! It really tickles my brains
Mesmerizing
Genious yet simple idea.
These are so fantastic. Gotta comment on all of these to jog the algorithm
Bro that's awesome, you should do a tutorial on how to make that box
Wonderful !!!
Thank you for sharing with us your "view" on music !
amei esse bit
god, everything about this video is amazing. love the cinematography, adore the music, and the device itself it extremely cool. would love to purchase one !
outstanding sound and video
Amazing job! Hopefully one day I can buy one, I have so many objects I want to try out!
The first part sounded like an emotional guitar strum, while the other sounded like the villains fight 😭 I love it tho
imagine this song in a horror game, I’d be properly scared yet enjoying the beat
I could spend months putting differents objects on this thing figuring out what interesting sounds come out
Splendid! Terrific!
Very hip. You've made engineering respectable again.
Absolutely BRILLIANT!
THIS IS THE COOLEST FUCKING THING I HAVE EVER SEEN A PRODUCER DO!!!!!
Best thing I’ve seen in a long while
🤯Genius !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellence as always
I am just a fan of your creativity!
Ok, you got me.. subscribed.
beautiful presentation.
Looking forward to more pocket beatbox news 😍
At some points it reminds of Brian May from Queen. Amazing.
I'm Diggin! Cheers!;-)!
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Это очень круто и необычно!
now i am watching with my friend. she likes it. and i saw this video from my teacher.
Hi I am the friend of you and you were right I loved it.
I want that box in my life
Masterpiece, that's all! 👏🤤
wow wow thats brilliant
Yahooo- amigo.Like,you uploaded great view-
Please post your music to Spotify 😍
Wow this is amazing
very freaking rad
awesome
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NICE!!!
That was insane! I’d love to learn more about this machine.
So good!!!
This song feals like a drug..
Dope.
Here before the million viewers
Nice
🔥 🔥 🔥
Гениально. Надеюсь, будет альбом состоящий полностью из звуков дрон машины?
So THAT's where you put the chair! I'm still amazed at the melodic stepper motors. I remember repairing a stepper drive and testing it for the first time and heard the change in sound the motor made with change in frequency fed to the drive. I would love to see more videos with different objects creating different sounds. Also, was there a plan regarding the size/shape of the box, or did you just use one that was readily available. Were acoustics part of the box design and did you consider different wood choices?
Thanks a lot! I prefer to make my boxes. The box is made with a special birch composite (2mm thick). After a lot of testing I ended up with these dimensions. The box itself rounds the sound, makes it feel more like a bassoon. As for the resonator objects, they can have a great impact. I made four more drone boxes and I'll post some videos soon.
Oh great idea and it sounds as fuc%@¢] !!! 😮
I appreciate the new art you put forward. Do the stepper motors have positional encoders to realize what position they’re in?
Thanks! Not with this one, but I'm considering adding encoders to the next drone box
@@nikoladze It almost seemed like ther were in the same position within each repeatingf phrase. Did you intend for this? regardless, its lifechanging
∂ope
Ffk sake. This is good.
You mind if I use it??
Sounds like something from incredbox
Hi! I'm a student of Music and Technology in Argentina. I wanted to do an alike proyect as your "Stepper Miniature" artefact that you have posted on Vimeo, for the Electronic Lutheria course I'm currently studying at the University.
I was wondering if you have a code for it,
if you used an Arduino for the proyect and which one? (because of how many pins it required)
and how you attached your motor to the wood structure you build.
I'm amazed and inspired by your work. I think it's quite unique and stimulating. Also, I can tell you've searched for specifics and personal esthetics in your builds and your choice of objects. I think that's pretty cool.
Anyways, I hope you can help me with my questions. And if you can't, that's cool too.
saved under 'peculiar ahh music'
How do you make one??
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T’es trop un ouf
I don’t understand but I think that’s ok
Extremely creative. You might have too much free time. 😜
Which microphones you use to record sound?
For this one I used Neumann TLM102 (the one that you see in the picture, it's actually recording as the machine is filmed) and a Sennheiser MKH416, which is next to the camera lens, pointed at the machine.
@@nikoladze thank you! Love your art.
Not to be a prick, but why is this good?
(Don't be mean, I'm old, I used to go to Nam June Paik exhibits. i just wanna get it.)
First of all, you're not a prick. And then you actually ask one of the most fundamental questions of all time. The entire art of phrnomenology tries every day, all day, to answer your question, yet it has no simple answers. It's only as good or valuable as it's meaningful to the people who like it. And it never ceases to amaze me that I'm not the only crazy person who is entertained and aesthetically charged by the experience of things like a pine cone, an egg, a cup and a coil playing music on an electromechanical wooden box.
And Nam June Paik was the greatest of all time. ❤️
@@nikoladze Thanks for saying so, but so often if I make a comment like this people attack me when I'm just trying to understand.
And I enjoyed the visuals of your device, and also the music, but people in the comments were so rapturous I feel like I'm missing something, so I asked.
Maybe I just need to relax and enjoy it for what it seems to be.
But I appreciate what you're trying to do. Keep up the good work! 🙂
@@nikoladze Indeed! 😁
I think the audience of this channel consists of extremely polite, nice, creative, curious people and art lovers. And I take all the enthusiastic comments as kind gestures of support. They spur me on to explore more of the unknown and possibly lead me to small discoveries that have the potential to inspire. So thank you for the initial question. It made me think hard.
Wwpphhhooo,,yes
far out
Shut up and take my money 🤑🤑🤑
LookmumnoTLsmoother
I understand now why my channel doesn't have the same subs as your channel. All that hatred towards youtube
brilliant!