This was a school bus (?) that plays 8 animal sound samples, 4 machine sounds, and many strange carnival type melodys. I added six body contacts and two pitch controls, 1/4 output, speaker bypass and a reset button. Sounds can be slowed down to where they're throaty machine growls. Body contacts provide real time pitch vibrato and distortion. Buttons have been inlayed with swirly pseudo-tortoise shell material. Also brass bars hand inset into same material for body contacts. Metallic 1948 medical green paint job. Sounds like a cat fight inside of a black hole. |
This is basically an 8-track tape player for kids. I pulled the play head out and mounted it in this wand. Now you can rub the head against strips of magnetic tape: (video, audio, computer disks) strange. and as if that weren't enough, with the volume turned up, you pick up a nice hum from the motor. |
I bought this in China Town for a couple dollars. It makes beeps, rings and features ghostly voice samples of a heavily accented operator. I added audio out; speaker by-pass switch and huge ranged pitch knob. Goes from King Kong stomach rumbles to R2D2 on angel dust. |
This is Texas Instruments follow up to the Speak & Spell line of speech synthesizers. $0.99 at the thrift store. Press on the pad to trigger. Has many strange vocal glitches, loops and weird beats. Looks very untoy-like, too |
I found this toy sequncer at my fav. thrift store. The membrane keypad was dead, so I wired buttons to trigger the sixteen samples [owl, metal spring, horn etc.] and housed it in an antique power supply for a microscope illuminator. w/ trippy op-art panel and black crackle finish over metallic pink under coat. Knob 1 pitches it way, way down. Flipping the toggle switch sends it into an extreme glitch mode that could tear the very fabric of our dimension. Use wisely |
I picked this up at the MIT fleamarket on the cheap. I added 30 switches, all unlabled. Not knowing what any switch (or combination) will do makes playing it an exercise in chaos. This is a glitch battleship. I can't even begin to describe the sounds that come out of this thing. Truly terrifying. Candy apple green transparent paint over silver under coat. |
The ubiquitous 555 lumivox circuit with CdS electric eyes mounted on posable eye stalks. Knob controls range of sound...from geiger-counter like clicks to insane robot shrieks. Playing this around the house too much will probably result in divorce. Iridescent green powder finish. |
This was another kids sample bank featuring 8 animal sounds and 4 truck sounds. I extensivly remodeled it, based on the Kabalist Tree of Life. Has 2 pitch knobs, one for each sample bank. Brass spheres body contacts for real time distortion and pitch change. |
The guts from a voice changing megaphone mounted in a project box. Switch on back selects 3 voice settings: Fold, Spindle, & Mutilate. When I play the Speak & Spell thru it, it sounds like the Supreme Inseckt Overlord buzzing commands to the human-worker drones toiling in the sugar caves. Hydra Device logo sand-blasted into top of case. I'll probably try bending it soon. |
This is a by-the-book Ghazala -type 'Incantor' Speak and Spell mod. Has usual pitch knob, body contacts, looping with photo cell, reset etc. I also added a custom alien glyph alchemical keypad.As popular a bending target as these are, I can not stress enough how incredible they sound. |
This is the one that started it all for me. Dr.Evil sound sample toy from Austin Powers movie. Says "one million dollars"...well, it used to anyway. Now it belches forth a wall of sound ranging from satellite telemetry , weird ring modulated bells and clangs, and all manner of clicks, beeps, and drones. One glitch button, one reset button, speaker-off toggle, and 1/4 out. Sound sample soon. |
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