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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

17 in stock

The shop is closed until 18th May 2013. Please feel free to pre-order for delivery after that date.

[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

5 in stock

The shop is closed until 18th May 2013. Please feel free to pre-order for delivery after that date.

For further details please see: yersinia page

Order both blackdeath and yersinia for a special price of 150 euros including postage.

5 in stock

The shop is closed until 18th May 2013. Please feel free to pre-order for delivery after that date.

Developed as part of the detektors project with Shintaro Miyazaki, the detektor is now available for purchase as a pre-built and fully tested module for full spectrum exploration of the electromagnetic domain.

The detektor renders audible both low frequency emissions (using on-board coil and amplifier) and higher, broadband signals (for example, mobile phone signals, wireless networks, bluetooth) from around 100 MHz to 3 GHz using a logarithmic detection chip and on-board antenna. Either signal can be monitored from the headphone socket, with one switch selecting low or high frequency domain; both signals can be recorded as a stereo pair from the other socket. With twin potentiometers, adjustments can be made for high frequency signal attenuation and headphone volume. The detektor is powered by three AAA batteries.

5 in stock.

The shop is closed until 18th May 2013. Please feel free to pre-order for delivery after that date.

[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

Price: 23 euros with 6 euros shipping worldwide

The shop is closed until 18th May 2013. Please feel free to pre-order for delivery after that date.

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.