New Instrument – Grassi Box

I’ve been working on a relay-based hardware repatching instrument for quite a while. The idea being that I could use my computer (running Max) to control a bunch of my weird (ciat-lonbarde) hardware synths.

I recruited Dan Wilson of Circitfied to build the transistor/relay system that works on top of the Arduino teensy core.

Here is a video using attack-based random repatching of an Old Mr. Grassi using my drumset.

And here is a video using prepared/bowed guitar to drive analysis-based resynthesis of a Fourses and Fyrall:

To read more about the Grassi Box click here.