Tinkerhaus

Experimental musical instruments and effects designed for weird and wild sounds. Available on web, iPad, and VST (coming soon).

The apps

Canvas: four soft ink-wash pads named glass, rain, choir and bells on cream paper, around a small red seal.

Canvas

An ambient canvas for stretched sound.

Drop sounds onto paper and drag the listener among them. Each pad can stretch, freeze, scatter into grains, loop like tape or play backwards.

Fluther: four glowing creatures in dark blue water under shafts of light (a violet jellyfish, a comb jelly, a pink chain of bells and a pale moon jelly), with its tabs and tweak knobs around them.

Fluther

Synth voices that play themselves.

Up to six voices play themselves in a scale you choose, each grown from a seed you roll. Each is a creature of light in deep water: drag it across to let it wander, or down to make it strange.

Stacks: a pyramid of coloured bricks, each showing a bar pattern, on a studded green baseplate.

Stacks

A sequencer you build from bricks.

Build a pyramid of bricks that plays patterns on its own. Operator bricks transform the ones beneath them, and you can change it while it runs.

Typo: a grid of purple, red, orange and pink tiles on cream and black grounds, with a circle and a curved wedge outlining the tiles two readers are playing.

Typo

A sample mangler you play as a grid of tiles.

Cut a sample into tiles, then play the grid. Readers (moving playheads) walk the tiles and play what they touch, and moves like scatter, mirror and chop reshape the grid as you go.

Subswell: a grid of translucent boxes over dark water, each holding a level line.

Subswell

Four effects feeding back into each other.

Four effects feed back into one another, and you never set them directly. Play a box and several paths open at once, to multiply, merge and modulate the sound.

Carta: a 3D wireframe of the terrain around Mount Fuji, with its waveform in the corner and a morph slider below.

Carta

A wavetable synth made from real terrain.

Pick a place on the map and play the ground there. Each west to east row of terrain is one wave, and morph walks you from north to south.

More apps on the way... they keep getting weirder.

Norns scripts

For the monome norns sound computer.

Strata

A take on the Vestax Faderboard.

Read the thread on lines

Ember

Turns any clip into a disintegration loop, after William Basinski.

Coming soon

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