Every ritual starts acoustically. Skull Worship!!

Gotta have some gongs!

An assortment of radiators are the base. Take out the heating thing and thermostat, install a piezo or two, use the old on/off switch for mute, add a jack and end up with a massive soundboard!! Seen here with a tape (Altar Of Flies, heh heh) for size comparison.

Lamps are great too. The metal thing on the left is supposed to hold an upside down cymbal but it's lost in this chaos... These kinda switches are not the most practical for gigs, but that was then.

Mandatory gut shot

A fusebox with a lamp, frankensteined for klonk symbiosis! The twistable switch makes for extra squeaky bonus sound.

Mandatory gut shot.

This lamp turned out great, with the string switch still workin as mute control. I regret only the ugly cable color.

From somebody's bathroom!? Now that's what I call a switch!!!

Things that make screeeeeeeeeeeeeches. PC coolers are the best. Specially 386 and 486, they had monster sized processors. And on the upper right you see the basic, easy-to-find-everywhere-jack, unfortunately craptacular quality compared to the rare big grey nuklear one as seen in the previous shot.

Some springstruments, the top of a garbage can, and the ultimate horror mic made from some crap headphone... particularly good on drums, if driven through a big muff.

A bike saddle (lotsa springs on those), some printer part, and yet another lamp! Damn, the cables and plugs cost more than the apparatuses themself!!

The printer thing with a switch for instant cut-up control. This kinda switch is much better for gigs than the toggle version.

More PC cooler action, a mouse, some teapan holder... wires straight from Boomhauer's practice room's garbage can... rrrrrrrrecycled!

An old PC power supply with a switch, and the classic springstrument. One of my first builds, hence the crazy blob of glue holding the ugly blue cable in place. Been wanting to redo that one but it's still klonking supreme, so why bother. Ugly, yes, but problems, definitely no.....

Shakers are also essential. That old power adapter turned out one of the sturdiest, with cable coming out of one hole, and a switch on the other. That red/yellow thing is made entirely from some old pressure meter (or something), even the tiny piezo inside, which was the warning signal generator. Wires and the rattling screws from the same thing, only the jack and the shrink tubes are added.

Different classic piezos... some with clips for quick attachment. If I remember right the one with the jack came from a smoke alarm, and the upper middle with green shrinx is from an old nokia cellphone...

Great lamp thing and a badass scraper. Those nuklear jacks are an extinct breed, and the ones available nowadays are pretty crap quality. I hope to score some decent jacks, but unfortunately Switchcrafts are like 9e each... argh!

Gotta have all kinds of junk that makes percussive sounds! Is that yet another lamp in the bucket on the right?!

It never ends.

Down in the bottum there's a lot of collected museum material waiting to be processed and refined.

Finding buzzzzztextures from an old car stereo.

Neverending unfinished biznez...

Remember to clean the 4trak every now and then!!

Contact mics, switches, knobs, screechers, old lamps, oven parts, washing machine parts..... a few years goin, enough to have some decent level of builds. Here's just a few shots for now.

For some years already i buy only good cable by the meter, Switchcraft or Neutrik connectors, and big piezos.

Metal crap can be found anywhere, obviously. The first step is to wash it and disinfect it. Hey, after all it's been rotting in some stinky trash container full of old tuna, cat food and beer cans. (But I've managed to pick up speakers, hard disks and even 2 working scanners too!!)

Some of my builds can be seen/heard as used by Lasse Marhaug, Sick Seed, Bizarre Uproar, Keränen, Kuupuu, Vanhala, Ashley C, Wertham, etc etc...

If you need some kind of contact mike, klonk device or shaker, then drop me a line. Basic contact mics with big piezo on a cable starting from 20.-e + shipping. Oh, why that price?? OK, cheap-ass, here's the breakdown:
2.-e = big piezo
6.-e = 2m of good cable
5.-e = Switchcraft / Neutrik 6.3mm "guitarplug"
+ epoxy + shrink tube + zip ties + labor...
(cheaper options include recycled crap cables and plugs, or jacks instead of plugs, found from somewhere, without any quality guarantee)

I'll be making some stuff for sale every now and then, but as a rule, the ones seen on this page are not for sale.

Scene Police warning: This is caveman electronics, amateur and kindergarten level circuit bending... mostly trial and error. For some SERIOUS engineering check out Verde or View.