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Inspired in part by Leif Elggren's Virulent Images/Virulent Sound (if images can be virulent, can sound be virulent too?), blackdeath is the first open hardware/free software noise synthesiser with the plague inside.

Embedding epidemic and plague simulations amongst other data generation algorithms for granular re-synthesis of incoming audio signals or self-generated feedback, blackdeath represents a virulent yet highly controllable noise/audio engine with built-in, switchable distortion.

blackdeath can be delivered fully assembled, and features high quality ALPS potentiometers, BOSS style 9v power socket (+V on the outside), and full size (6.5mm) JACK input and output sockets. The sheer, black design follows John Dee's Sigillum DEI, according to the instructions of the Angels given in Mysteriorum Liber Secundus.

For further details please see: blackdeath page

Price: 110 euros with free shipping worldwide

22 now left in stock

[Antonin Artaud]

Returning the body, electronics, and dystopic code to the earth, revived and decoded years later as "yersinia pestis," the micro_blackdeath marks a new development in virulent open source plague computing and audio re-synthesis. In contrast to the blackdeath noise synth, micro-blackdeath (codename: yersinia pestis) acts as an infectuous sound generator rather than a vampriric sampling and processing engine. A new, additional programmable analogue filter and switched noise/feedback section render the results far from digitally restricted.

Yersinia pestis is a fully fledged viral computation unit including a central plague unit [CPU] acting as interpreter for selected instruction sets which operate on the interior cells or sound-generating individuals (the simulation of a medieval village within the synth). Instruction sets include masque (of the red death, courtesy of E.A Poe), brainfuck, redcode, plain plague and SIR (susceptible, infected, recovered).

Price: 57 euros with free shipping worldwide

9 in stock

For further details please see: yersinia page

Portable implementation (with coil) of Leon Chua's chaotic oscillator with a range from pure sine wave to chaos and bifurcation phenomena. This chaotic generator is particularly useful for control. In custom metal housing with switch, mono full-size jack and one potentiometer/knob for tuning into chaotic region. Now operates from a single 9v battery.

Circuit: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Chua\_circuit

18 euros + free postage:

Broadband 100 MHz to 2.4 GHz radio receiver (amplitude demodulation - using only RSSI signal strength) - includes Wireless signal, using Analog devices AD8313. Broadband high frequency signals rendered audible and (to some degree) visible.

Generates random numbers based on a transistor avalanche white noise module with additional squaring up of wave, sampling with microcontroller (ATmega8), unbiasing and serial USB interface. Can be used with free software [/dev/random] as a hardware RNG for encryption, research and psychokinesis (PK) applications. The RNG performs well under many industry-standard tests examining random number distribution.

xxxxx_peenemünde presents documentation, archive material and original research resulting from the first series of working groups in Peenemünde conducted in early 2008. This speculative event, described in the work, was projected as an intense, conspiratorial expedition and meeting within a key, historical location. xxxxx_peenemünde actively examines a fiction which presents a dark heart of technology (as evidenced by electromagnetic practice), and a vivid relation to both entropy and ecology.

[the] xxxxx [reader] is a comprehensive anthology of world and life re-coding strategies, collecting background text, Lisp and Perl program listings, and screenshots. See: reader