I think the best one so far, starting to get somewhere with this perhaps...
The natural semiconductors used in this track are pieces from the same lump of solid chalcopyrite fossicked from minewaste at East Wheal Maid, Gwennap. Three shafts on a hilltop that overlook the "Wheal Maid Valley", site of the Great Consolidated Mines. The rubble falling down from the steep sides are full of mineralisation typical of these mines, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena - but also a lot of dark siderite. The names of the shafts and the lodes here have been forgotten to history.
New electronics have been built to provide enveloped gates to free up the ones I've been using on the volca modulars meaning the synth can be used more simply, or even standalone now - preparation for the #OrganisedAtoms workshop so we could test minerals we collected with family groups, to provide sonification of different crystals (this took over completely from the cardboard synths we used previously).
https://soundcloud.com/cornish_semiconductor/from-a-forgotten-lode
https://archive.org/details/cornish-semiconductor-forgotten-lode
The natural semiconductors used in this track are pieces from the same lump of solid chalcopyrite fossicked from minewaste at East Wheal Maid, Gwennap. Three shafts on a hilltop that overlook the "Whe
Write up on our first #OrganisedAtoms workshop of 2025:
https://thentrythis.org/notes/2025/09/27/organised-atoms-2025-workshop-1/
Two more (free events) coming up next weekend as part of Fun Palaces - see booking info here if you are near us and want to give it a go:
https://funpalaces.co.uk/fun-palace/organised-atoms-fun-palace-2/
We are doing #OrganisedAtoms again this summer, watch this space for dates!
Family fun smashing rocks, crystal collecting, identification, microscopes, electronics and NOISE at United Downs Raceway, St Day, #Cornwall
We are currently building some of the best circuits (and new ones) into a synth that can be used for gigs! Photo of work in progress - if you are around you can hear/have a go with this at our open studio (see pinned post) on the 16th August.
Sometimes crystals form stacked 'worm' like shapes - this is pale green clinochlore on a dark sphalerite matrix from Wheal Charles, Porthtowan at the base of the steep valley underneath the much larger Tywarnhayle mine.
I got wet feet from a failed attempt at jumping over a stream for this one, but it was worth it.
Tomorrow night @nebogeo will be streaming #OrganisedAtoms mine waste crystal semiconductor "glitch & scream" live from Cornwall, part of "Zero Volts" at @constant in Brussels: https://0v.constantvzw.org/
This will be followed by an up close and personal introduction to specimens of cassiterite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and others, via live microscope.
These crystals have been waiting 270 million years for this chance! The event will be recorded, so watch this space if you can't make it.
Dave Griffiths
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