Where the hell does all this crap in my house come from?

[Circuitbenders]

I'm sure i'm not the only one here who finds that their houses mysteriously become the dumping ground for every bit of surplus electronics gear within a 10 mile radius but what i'm wondering is, where the hell does it all come from, and more importantly, why the hell is it here?

Just taking a quick look into my hallway i can see:

2 three unit racks pulled from an obscenely complex alarm system
A Rackmount telephone exchange
A device for measuring concrete stress in earthquakes! (what the fuck!!!!)
2 accutronics springline reverb tanks
A casio CZ5000 synth!
A pair of carlsbro PA speakers
A broken Cheetah MD16R
An old Teletype VDU system for displaying football results on screens in betting shops
2 Apple Mac classics
An old epson dot matrix printer
An Amstrad Green screen monitor

I have no idea why half of that stuff is here or what i'm ever going to do with any of it, but for some reason i'm still collecting this crap. Is this the curse of all circuitbenders or is it just me?

[nochtanseenspecht]

hehe sounds familliair.
but the cz5000 is okay

[Fatdave]

Is this the curse of all circuitbenders or is it just me?

It's just you you fucking idiot. 

[Circuitbenders]

don't think that just because you fobbed off some macs on some trusting fool that means your house isn't full of crap.

hehe sounds familliair.
but the cz5000 is okay

The CZ5000 was the first synth in ever owned and has an excellent  ring modulator, but its just way too big 

[iqoruvuc]

I made a mistake of buying a CZ3000, like you say just too big.  It's been propped up against my bedroom wall for 2 years!

[george lazenbleep]

get a 101, some nice bends on there and it has guitar strap buttons
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[Luka]

im more than happy to take those verb tanks off your hands
pm me if your wanna organise some shipping fee

[kick52]

I have 6 computer monitors (7 if you count the iMac, mostly CRT), and I just can't get rid of the buggers. I only use one.
I also have boxes of circuit bending stuff which I might take a picture of later.

[Rizomorph]

I would concider myself lucky if i saw that in my hallway but wtf why do u have a Seismometer?

[Circuitbenders]

I would concider myself lucky if i saw that in my hallway but wtf why do u have a Seismometer?

why not? You won't get any warning before an earthquake hita and you have to measure some concrete stress so i find its better to have thiese things ready and to hand just in case 

either that or it turned up in a consignment of junk that someone managed to offload on me and will soon be passed onto some other trusting fool!

[Gordonjcp]

why not? You won't get any warning before an earthquake hita and you have to measure some concrete stress so i find its better to have thiese things ready and to hand just in case 

Can you hook the transducers up to an amp?  What does stressed concrete sound like?

[gmeredith]

You know that the most expensive piece of equipment on your list there is the Epson dot matrix printer - you can still buy them, but they are well over $1000 new! A lot of scientific equipment still uses chart paper reams for large graphs - and the printer manufacturers still make them for those types of things, and charge like a wounded bull!

My university is the dumping ground for the world's dot matrix printers.

Cheers, graham

[Circuitbenders]

Can you hook the transducers up to an amp?  What does stressed concrete sound like?

Something tells me that would sound horribly creepy, and i suspect i'm not capable of sressing concrete enough to make any kind of impression......... but who cares, i'll see what i can do 

You know that the most expensive piece of equipment on your list there is the Epson dot matrix printer - you can still buy them, but they are well over $1000 new!

This explains why theres loads of people on ebay trying to shift them for ridiculous Buy It Now prices when other people can't even start the bidding at 99p

[Matt the Modulator]

Jacob Kirkegaard uses contact mics and virbration test equipment to produce music well sound scabes. this link takes to his lp Eldfjall recordings of volcanic vibrations in the earth around the area of Krisuvik, Geysir and Myvatn in Iceland.

http://fonik.dk/works/eldfjall.html

sounds great with sp & spl's etc any way i no what u mean about weres all this stuff come from i go to car boot every weak even thou i have about 30 things waiting to be bent i whent in the cuboard under the stair for my summer hoody as its getting warmer and i found A GAY BONGO MACHINE  i cant remeber were i got it or why?

[Circuitbenders]

i whent in the cuboard under the stair for my summer hoody as its getting warmer and i found A GAY BONGO MACHINE  i cant remeber were i got it or why?

is there such a thing as a bongo machine with a specific sexuality? If so, how can you tell?