Experiment With Electroacoustic Signals

US KOMA's Field Kit is a toolset for making sound with everyday objects      14/12/16

Experiment With Electroacoustic Signals


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After a year of development, testing and prototyping, KOMA Elektronik has put the latest addition to the KOMA family, the KOMA Elektronik Field Kit, on Kickstarter.

A spokesperson told us, "The new KOMA Elektronik Field Kit is the perfect tool for everyone who would like to experiment with electroacoustic sound. Use everyday objects, amplify them and use them to make sound, like our heroes John Cage and David Tudor used to do!"

Here's the full story direct from KOMA Elektronik...

The Field Kit is optimized to process signals from microphones, contact microphones, electromagnetic pickups and able to run DC motors and solenoids. On top of that it can receive radio signals and convert signals from switches and sensors into control voltage. The Field Kit boasts 7 separate functional blocks all focussed on receiving  or generating all types of signals. They are designed to operate together as a coherent electroacoustic workstation or alternatively together with other pieces of music electronics with the ability to use control voltage signals:

  • Four Channel Mixer
  • Envelope Follower
  • DC Interface
  • Analog Switch Interface
  • Analog Sensor Interface
  • AM/FM/SW Radio
  • Low Frequency Oscillator


You can easily interface the Field Kit with a Eurorack modular system. At the backside of the PCB you will find a power connector you can use to power the unit from your system. The total panel width is 36HP. You can buy the Field Kit as a finished unit or build one yourself with the DIY Version.

EXPANSION PACK
Its all about the things you connect to the The Field Kit! To get you started we decided to offer an Expansion Pack with a bunch of different sources that you can use and connect to create your own signature sounds. The Expansion Pack can be ordered with the Field Kit or ordered separately:

2 x Contact Microphones

Use these contact microphones to pick up vibration or sound, they are an amazing versatile input source.
1 x Electro-Magnetic Pickup
This guy is good at picking up changes in magnetic fields, you can use it to amplify a string like a guitar pickup or amplify a spinning motor.
1 x Solenoid push-pull motor
Use the solenoid to hit things, together with the DC Interface the solenoid can make anything rhythmical and percussive.
1 x DC motor
The Motor can be used to rotate things or as a noisy oscillator together with the Electro-Magnetic Pickup.
1 x small speaker
Use the speaker to listen to the main mix or as a sound source and to feedback sounds.
3 x patch cables

Every Field Kit will be shipped with a little booklet called "50 Ways To Use The Field Kit," which, besides being the official user manual, is exactly what you might think it is: a small book with examples of 50 different setups with the Field Kit to spark your imagination to experiment on how for instance make a spring reverb, do radio feedbacking, sense heat, water and light and make it trigger a sequence of sound and so much more! It also includes a few ideas and schematics to make your own add-ons for the Field Kit. A good way to get started!

DIY VERSION
You can get the Field Kit as a ready-made device or you can get the DIY Version, which you have to put together yourself. When you want to build the Field Kit yourself, we will supply you with a board that has all the SMT components already soldered on, which means the hardest bit is done already, but you have to do the rest: solder on all the hardware parts and final assembly of the front panel and you are good to go!

The DIY Version will be shipped with the User Manual and build instructions, we will also record a very clear video as a step by step tutorial on how to build your own unit (and show some cool hacking tricks while we're at it).



Pricing and Availability:
The Field Kit is available on Kickstarter until January 13th for an introductinary price of EUR 199 (MRSP: EUR 229). DIY Version is EUR 159.
The Expansion Packs are available for EUR 49 (MRSP: EUR 59). Shipping is planned for March 2017.


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