EP20: ‘The Nervous Squirrel!'

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In this week's show, we have Dave Cranmer a mechanical sculptor and freelance engineer that has his roots firmly in sound. He is truly an adventurous multimedia artist, designer and builder that has created all kinds of beautiful, bizarre and exceptional machines! We look at his road to being 'The Nervous Squirrel', we talk building modular and focus on some of his amazing projects and commissions! From a  Radioactive Xylophone to the renowned Badgermin  (a theremin in a badger!) we talk about it all!

We could not get all the show notes on this so page so head over to www.esotericmodulation.com for the full show notes.
Show Timings

0.00 Show intro
Ed and Ben's pre-show chat:
00.59 Accents, Currys cast and gear,
02.31 Dreaming of gear
03.18 New module tease,
04.15 Echoplex is fixed!
08.45 Valhalla Supermassive reverb and examples
16.20 Guest intro
18.10 Welcome to Dave Cranmer
19.01 The Road to Nervus Sqirl
20.21 Building the skills
21.59 First commission
23.00 Ring modulator, modular - the musical path
27.20 Radioactive  Giger counter random source and Radioactive Xylophone
32.00 logistically tricky designs
33.55 Enjoying working on commissions
35.29 Aero Chocolate dipped grammar phone
36.31 Most technically challenging project
40.00 A favourite fun project
41.00 The Bagermin
44.00 How do people find Dave
44.30 The alpaca sound system
46.46 What Dave likes to build
47.50 The Wether controlled electromechanical sound installation
50.20 Future projects 
52.25 Roundup

Show Notes

Dave's links:

Dave Cranmer - 'The Nervous Squirrel' Information
Website: https://www.nervoussquirrel.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/thenervoussquirrel
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nervoussquirreldotcom/

Intro Links

OM-1 - http://www.ondemagnetique.com

Folktek Resonant Garden - http://www.folktek.com/instruments/electrocoustic/lastgarden

tanh[3] video with the echoplex - https://youtu.be/W1AKzau1608

Valhalla DSP Supermassive - http://bit.ly/SUPERmassive

DivKid presets for Supermassive - http://bit.ly/SUPERmassiveDIVKID

Virtual CZ - https://www.olilarkin.co.uk/index.php?p=virtualcz

XILS lab - PolyM - https://www.xils-lab.com/products/polym-p-160.html

XFER Records - Serum - https://xferrecords.com/products/serum

Felt Instruments - Wolno - https://bit.ly/Wolno

Guest Links

Original Dalek Ring Modulator circuit - http://www.nervoussquirrel.com/ringmodulators.html

Signing off
Isolation streaming resource - https://bit.ly/coronastreams

Hosts

Ed Ball Website:https://www.edwardball.co.uk

Ed Ball on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Edwardba

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