IDEIN
Optically Generated Gates and Triggers
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8hp, 3U, 25mm
15mA at +12V, 1mA at -12
Following in the same spirit as its predecessor Klima, IDEIN invites yet another aspect of the environment into your patching process. It’s bulging eye not only looks back at you but behind you and around you, surveying you and the space you’re in. It knows if you’re patching in the light of day or in the dark of night, how and where your shadows fall and what’s radiating out from your many screens. The eye of IDEIN is sensitive to colors, those you can see and those you cannot. However, IDEIN is not a passive observer. It lets you know what it sees by spitting out gates and triggers that correspond to all the visual information it takes in.
How it works:
IDEIN is an entirely autonomous module that requires no user-input aside from light. With an All-Light Sensor monitoring levels of the RGB and IR spectrums, IDEIN detects changes in light-color and compares this information to the threshold set by the light sensitivity knobs. When a threshold is passed, a gate is opened, and a corresponding trigger is sent. Simply put, IDEIN is a series of comparators that produce quasi-random gates and triggers based on the color light spectrum of the surrounding environment. The big eye translates light to sonic form. Let your movement, the fluctuations in the color spectrum and the presence of infrared light dictate where you go next. Use it to trigger events based on visual information (e.g., video art projected behind you), dance in front of the eye and see how it responds, or simply let the hitherto unthought and seemingly passive movements of your patching become another active trigger source for musical (and not so musical) events.
Like its sibling Kilma, the atmospheric logic module that precedes it, the idea behind IDEIN is to chip away at the boundary between environment and music-making, as well as to lean into what makes modular synthesis so exciting: randomness, spontaneity and (often) the impossibility of reproducibility. The visual and atmospheric information in which IDEIN and Klima are rooted bring the abstractions of thought back down to earth. It senses where you are and reminds you of that location.
*If ordering from outside of US, please be aware that import fees in addition to shipping fees may be incurred. Please check with your local postal or delivery service for more information. Wheels are currently in motion to get dealers in the EU/UK and elsewhere, but in the meantime, if you know of a retailer in your region who would be interested, please have them get in touch with me.