5 of my best acrylic artworks

[eh là bas ma]

You are looking at a Pirate Shift (chorus from pcbguitarmania), an A/DA flanger ( Lectric fx), an Echo Base (delay+chorus from MusicPCB), a DC-2 chorus from Aion and a booster (musikding Z-Vex clone).

I tried to express with colors, shapes and various materials, the way these circuits sound in my mind. Except for the DC-2 : I tried to keep the building process alive on the enclosure, by sticking components values on it. I get kits and musikding always labels every components.

I always start with a white coating all over the enclosure (without pots and switches), and then I start the artwork, in order to get the colors more alive and easier to apply.
Several coats of acrylic varnish for the final touch. I like to recycle things and use it as materials : on the A/DA, You see 3 pieces of Ernie Ball guitar strings aluminium packaging. On the booster it was some aluminium from a pack of chocolates, the big knob comes from a washing machine rusting on my street. I just love garbage as raw materials...

 

[Barry]

I've heard that having perfect pitch is like hearing colors, I'm nowhere close to perfect pitch, but I think it has improved some, I may be up to about grayscale now as opposed to black and white, but great and expressive art you got there

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

That's synesthesia, also perfect pitch is a curse. My mother is a pianist and retired elementary music teacher with perfect pitch. Just imagine that. She's spent a life time playing whatever crap piano/organ the gig offered.

 

[eh là bas ma]

I wouldn't want to get cursed. I guess perfect pitch means you can hear also every gaps in the pitch, every approximation. Beautiful curse though.

I think the idea with colorful enclosures, is to create some sort of triggering in the player's mind : the artwork is supposed to help players to get the most of a circuit by creating some attraction and confidence between the human player and the object. Maybe even, on some higher artwork level, give a visual representation, an allegory, a map of the circuit characteristics. I don't think artwork is harmless, it can very well serve a purpose, or turn a great circuit into something unconfortable. I had to redo some artworks for this reason.

It is like self-suggestion : a christmas present with a casual wrapping paper won't be as effective as the same present in a very pleasant and colorful wrapping paper. I guess that's just how our brain is wired around our soul's 3PDT .