In my personal pursuit of #Newtonian knowledge about #light, I had accidentally created #NonNewtonian fluid!

The large glass jar that was easy to whisk with #FibreOptic / #FiberOptic bundles was in fact full of a 'solid' from the accumulated #abrasive cleaner particles on the bottom!

25/x

Wearing protective gloves, I wet each bundle and manually rubbed the abrasive powder into the strands. Once done, I set the bundle into a cup with water to sit overnight.

I did the same basic process on all the bundles so that they would be in the same condition at the end, but for the heavily-yellowed ones, used a large glass jar with extra water and #abrasive #cleaner that I would vigorously whisk with the bundle prior to leaving everything for another 24 hours to soak.

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In one final last-ditch effort to scrub out the yellowing, I used an #abrasive cleaner I'd recently discovered that seems ultra-fine and also not scented -- a rarity among cleaning products and a common bane of my #allergic existence!

22/x

For a deep dive into the weirder, wilder and more experimental side of my work, check out The Alchemical Practice of Modular Synthesis. It's a four track collection of experiments I did in modular, working on developing new sound design and composition techniques.

https://etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-alchemical-practice-of-modular-synthesis

It's #abrasive, unpredictable and fairly non musical, but if you like weird, loopy stuff, you might dig it. Also worthwhile for #modular synthesists looking to expand their techniques!