A voltage-controlled function generator designed around the principle that timing itself is a physical material. Manipulate the precise curvature, acceleration, and asymmetry between emergence and collapse. Treat the internal geometry of charge and discharge trajectories not as a fixed behavioral law, but as a live, malleable surface for performance.
The EM-204 functions as an instrument for shaping the kinetics of voltage itself, rendering an electromechanical study of slope, phase transition, and controlled instability through discrete circuitry.
By exposing the internal geometry of its charge and discharge trajectories directly to the performer, the module allows the user to directly alter the voltage's transition rate and curvature, determining how dynamically a control signal accelerates or decelerates through a patch.
The Definition paraemeter continuously warps these trajectories from exponential through linear to logarithmic curves—effectively reconfiguring the fundamental mathematical law that governs how the circuit tracks, holds, and releases voltage.
Under this architectural framework, sequenced pitch bends cease behaving like standard modulation and instead resemble mechanical glide systems operating under varying gravitational conditions. Rhythmic contours begin to exhibit asymmetrical temporal weight, and oscillation drifts from geometric precision toward unstable organic recursion depending on exactly where the internal response law is permitted to settle.
BAUHAUS
MODEL : EM-105
VARIABLE WAVESHAPE OSCILLATOR
BAUHAUS
MODEL : EM-105
VARIABLE WAVESHAPE OSCILLATOR
GLISSEMENT
MODEL : EM-204
V.C.-FUNCTION GENERATOR
The EM-204 functions as an instrument for shaping the kinetics of voltage itself, rendering an electromechanical study of slope, phase transition, and controlled instability through discrete circuitry.
By exposing the internal geometry of its charge and discharge trajectories directly to the performer, the module allows the user to directly alter the voltage's transition rate and curvature, determining how dynamically a control signal accelerates or decelerates through a patch.
The Definition paraemeter continuously warps these trajectories from exponential through linear to logarithmic curves—effectively reconfiguring the fundamental mathematical law that governs how the circuit tracks, holds, and releases voltage.
Under this architectural framework, sequenced pitch bends cease behaving like standard modulation and instead resemble mechanical glide systems operating under varying gravitational conditions. Rhythmic contours begin to exhibit asymmetrical temporal weight, and oscillation drifts from geometric precision toward unstable organic recursion depending on exactly where the internal response law is permitted to settle.
Augmenting this kinetic control is an independent, onboard DC offset domain governed by the Polar Shift control. Equipped with its own dedicated inputs, outputs, and CV offsets, this autonomous voltage generator can be patched anywhere to displace external signals or recursively routed back into the module's own control surface to alter its internal equilibrium.
Through the combination of variable slope geometry and localized feedback, the EM-204 transitions seamlessly between an advanced transient processor/slope generator, multi-stage envelope generator high-fidelity slew limiter, an exponential voltage-controlled oscillator, or a threshold & logic utility.
In effect, GLISSEMENT behaves more like a continuously negotiated dynamical system—a circuit whose identity is determined by the voltages permitted to circulate through it.
A voltage-controlled function generator designed around the principle that timing itself is a physical material. Manipulate the precise curvature, acceleration, and asymmetry between emergence and collapse. Treat the internal geometry of charge and discharge trajectories not as a fixed behavioral law, but as a live, malleable surface for performance.
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