Saw this guy live in 2006 in a former dance studio. He inflated a giant worm thing made of garbage bags with the obligatory one big fish eye on it and contact mics throughout, and flew it over the audience, whenever we touched it, it made noise. Super fun show. Never seen him with a shirt on before.

@PerfectCircuit

4 жыл бұрын

That sounds like an amazing show

This is exactly why I subscribed to perfect circuit. Both KZread and Newsletter.

*looks music teacher straight in the eyes "PACKING TAPE IS AN INSTRUMENT!"

@PerfectCircuit

3 жыл бұрын

don't let anyone ever tell you otherwise!

This is brilliant. And hilarious. I am the proud owner of a Crank Sturgeon piezo mic, and incorporate it into Mutable Instruments Ears, then resonate with Rings. Good times!

I was enjoying this so much that I forgot the dude was wearing a spaceship

Seen crank many times . Old school RRR, mass . Etc . guy rules. Performance artist.Check his records.

@fasterdetail

4 жыл бұрын

Whatup mike!

Crank is the MAN! I have a shaker box model of his named after my project (Depth Charge Gamelan 3CC) and its my proudest achievement.

Got here from Red Krayola strapping contact microphones to their throats and a melting block of ice in 1967, I was thinking wouldn't it be cool to buy one and get my heartbeat with it and wow it's done right at the end of this video!

@isaacwilliams9919

7 ай бұрын

Red krayola!!! Yes!!

loved the rubberband solo

Gotta love Crank. Choice gear for noise nerds.

Hunter Thompson... if he were an electronic music freak. Thnx for uploading and sharing some ideas!

Really love your videos. Outstanding.

Sequencer and you're gold.

this is why i do experimental music

Got my kit today. Two contact mics and a tetanus shot. I'm good.

VERY COOL CRANK STURGEON

amazing!

Love it, spider from another web!

This is brilliant! Now I’ve got enough inspiration for that contact mic i bought years ago and was collecting dust since then. Thanks

My kind of dude 🤘

The one and only ❤

Great

Wicked, once saw a guy put a contact mic in his mouth a produce poetry. Changed my mind on how sounds stroke music can be created. produce these whacky sounds them sample them and make them into new musical devices

Thumbs up just for the crazy head gear

Mr. Crank Sir, you need a channel of your own to demo all these f'n COOL devices that you've created!!! Please let us know where we can see them all in action!!!!

Inspiring - building a soundbox atm and this helps a lot \0/

"We were so poor we had to eat the toys, Eddie! My mamma could make a Slinky that would melt in your mouth."

grab every piece of metal in sight!

Crank Sturgeon is my spirit animal haha We also make contact mic and transducer modules for Eurorack from our workshop in Bristol UK :)

@cozyvandal8265

Жыл бұрын

@jack edwards Are you in same building as Elevator Sounds?

@beepboopelectronics

Жыл бұрын

@@cozyvandal8265 yeah that's right:) I don't know how they put up with me 😂

Holy shit I bought a contact mic from this guy like 10 years ago

How a man has fun...

Awesome, reminds me of some wild contact mic to odd performance characters, love the sounds. It's ASMR like on some

The goat

Fucking love Crank. Listen to what this guy tells you!

wazaaaaaaaaa #Streampunks FTW! exelent bro love you imagination wazaaaaa

freedom af, I saw him back in 2017/2018 i guess with if, bwana

👌🏿

I bet something similar was used in the Golden Age of radio.

5:20 Well now I know how they did the lightning sounds in 'Big trouble in little China'

Feckin' oarsum!

How are those mics with feedback? Or how do you reduce undesired feedback when there are loud speakers playing back the sound?

that spoon at one point was like F::k my ears

Crank I love you, but put a hi pass filter on the contatc mic (so we here just the sounds an not the "thud" exept for the big spring of course!)!

I miss my wife

@harshitverma4543

Ай бұрын

What happened bro

Is this a new show on UHF?

@ravenatorful

3 жыл бұрын

XD yeah it's scheduled right after uncle nutsy's clubhouse

perfect way to b ;)

Had my gallbladder removed by a Crank surgeon. Sometimes it feels as if he left the mic in there. Yeah yeah... feels like that packing tape sounds! Perfect! Man... I gotta get me a head piece like that. Hope it doesn’t cost as much as a eurorack module. Go man go! I had fun and I’m not even the guy doing all the stuff with the things... Dude Dude Dude... you invented like 35 instruments right there. Picture your Mom watching this video as she is in the pain of giving birth to you... and is told it’s you in the future. Lol... then it’s f**king hilarious! Just spitballing ideas, here Sterg Baby. Ha ha ha Seriously though... I mean... if the word (seriously) can be used anywhere near here? I Loved this on a level very explainable if considered after watching other product tutorials. They can be (seriously) boring... even if very useful and informative. Also... I like to think/Hope you enraged some strict contact mic audiophiles somewhere. Ha ha ha It’s funny see... cuz none of that makes any sense. Oh yeah... nothing makes any sense these dayssssss... Ok never-miiiiiiiiiind... ... ... 🤖Random Robot Head Award🤖given! ! ! ! ! Congratulations... 🎉

What are the lowest frequencies the contact mics are able to detect? Most of mics are able to get till 20hz, but I supposed that contact mics can go also lower or they stop at 20hz?

@ravenatorful

3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes if you don't have the proper preamps it can be hard to pick up the low end sounds with a contact mic. If you want sounds in the lower register o would use an audio interface with phantom power or a field recorder with similar features. Usually bassy stuff doesn't need to be lower than 40hz but human hearing itself bottoms out at 20hz. Really if you are using this for any media application you would actually want to high pass filter at 20hz.

@Sonoquilibrium

3 жыл бұрын

@@ravenatorful It is interesting what all frequencies seismic mics and good preamp with 32-bit float point recording can get. It's worth to try!

pls restock :-((((

7:22, seinfeld

Ah yes, a perfect rendition of Karlheinz Stockhausen's 'Ich Bin Betrunken und Gelangweilt und Ich Hasse Meinen Nachbarn'.

@anthonychilds8193

4 жыл бұрын

gesundheit

@BadChizzle

4 жыл бұрын

You do and you’ll clean it up! 🤪

What is the name of this steel spring this minute 5:10 Please.

@matrigs

4 жыл бұрын

Slinky

@init-crioxica

4 жыл бұрын

@@matrigs Thank you.

Amazing ... now we need a sampler ... any recommended?

@PerfectCircuit

4 жыл бұрын

Elektron Digitakt, Korg Volca Sample, Roland TR-8S

@ravenatorful

3 жыл бұрын

For software I recommend direct wave with fl studio, it also comes with a boss recorder/editor called edison

@RileyGein

2 жыл бұрын

@@PerfectCircuit Not Vocla sample or TR-8S, they are ROMplers not Samplers.

@WxkR

2 жыл бұрын

I’m probably too late, but the sampler to add to this set definitely is the Bastl Microgranny.

@lactatethrashold4704

Жыл бұрын

Crank makes (or made) a lofi looper and uses (or used) a Korg Mini-KP 2S.

Sounds like autechre :)

@anthonychilds8193

4 жыл бұрын

was totally thinking the same thing.

“Oh you’re a musician? What do you play?”

@voltijuice8576

2 жыл бұрын

I told ya - MUSIC!

my problem with contact mics is whenever i use them they hum like a bitch and i dont know how to fix that issue. but theyre really fun !

No valkoocibul!

@BadChizzle

4 жыл бұрын

How do you know... you can’t even see his shoes? 😂

me after 3 days of mescaline

As you dig into a world of undiscovered sounds you must admit not all of them were meant to be listened to, I.e. Packing tape does NOT replace a Violin. The Traditional instruments that exist today were not shaped and designed randomly.......having said that experiments are GOOD and new sounds CAN be interesting and enjoyable. Frank Zappa knew this when he made his " Lumpy Gravy " album .

@ToastedGhost

2 жыл бұрын

Everything is formed from experimentation, even the wheel. So all instruments were created through experimentation.

"Plug Ugly"? Really?!? You missed the chance calling it a "Plugly"

Ten minutes of mud.

Why’s he got a bag on his head?