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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Korg Kaossilator

flickr by Jeff Howard
(click for more non-xray shots of the inside of a KORG KAOSSILATOR)

"A while back I became fascinated with Nick Veasey's xray photography. I figured there must be a way I could create images with a similar end result but bypassing the need for the actual technology (and all the radiation that comes with it).

So while I was taking apart my Kaossilator to fix, I figured I would give this a try. To start, I took images of each of the individual parts. I then turned all of the images to b&w and inverted them. I then brought all of the images into one file as separate layers and began to align them while adjusting the opacity of each. After a bit of experimenting and some touching up, this is what I came up with.

Next project will be doing this with a camera I'm planning to take apart to convert to infrared. No promises as to when I'll get that up here though."

4 comments:

  1. Interesting - like the RADIAS, it's based around a TMS320C55xx DSP. What's interesting is that those are 16-bit DSPs... so never let it be said that 16-bit signal processing isn't useful for music!

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  2. Wow, pretty neat technique, without running the risk of radiation. Although, I guess you replace that with the risk of losing that tiny screw that always goes missing when you take stuff apart...

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  3. That's great! But I'm not sure how many details can you shoot of your camera from which you only have to remove the original IR-cut filter from. I'm about to do the same thing but I'm waiting for spring to arrive.

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  4. Y'know what? I gotta try to do this with a Gameboy.

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