Landscape O/O Banana Jack Touch-Controller Kit

O/O turns your body into patch cables, allowing you to interact with your banana modular system, by touching two or more points, yielding new results and sounds not possible without the subtleties of human touch and gestural expression. You transfer modulation, sequences from oscillator to oscillator, and triggers from voice to voice. You bend pitches with finger pressure. Your fingers are multiples and provide attenuation. Each kit requires assembly by screwing components together, and optionally soldering.

What it can do

• use your body as a patch cable to span two points
• increase your connection with and reaction to the audio and CV from banana modular systems
• expressive finger pressure changes (variable attenuation)
• responsive to different individual skin conductivity
• allows for cable stacking

How to use it

ASSEMBLE: You can connect by screwing components together. We recommend that you also solder the connections and tips. To do so, you will need solder, a soldering iron, and basic soldering experience. Soldering along the edges of where the plug meets the bottom of the plate can be helpful for increased continuity. The tips of the plugs have a collar that can spin around it. If you would like to decrease the touch plate’s ability to move from side to side add a small amount of solder to the tip bridging the gap between the spinning collar and tip. 

PLUG IN: Use the touchable shorting bar configuration for systems which accept this standard (ie. Buchla Music Easel). For singular touch points, change angle of orientation for ergonomic considerations, and proximity to surrounding jacks and knobs. Can be plugged into the top of a stackable cable as well.

PATCH: Use fingers (or other body parts, or patch cable points) to touch at least one input to one output (or multiple points) within a patch. Your body will cause a certain amount of resistance between points, and the amount of skin in contact with any point will alter the amount of attenuation. Further instability can occur from radio frequency interference introduced by your body acting as an antenna. More skin surface equals less attenuation.

TWO HANDS: Touch patching with one hand offers less attenuation than patching between two hands. 

MULTIPLAYER PATCHING: Touch your hand to an input or output. Have your friend (or chain of friends) touch another input or output. Touch or clap your hands to each other, closing the circuit.