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I make films, photographs and electronic music. I build electronic musical instruments

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  • Today I finished the final cabinets for my modular analog synthesizer. I built a lot of modules and they’re isn’t enough space for them in one cabinet. So I built two which fit nicely on top of each other. I’m…

  • I finished my new studio furniture today. I’ve been building it for about 2 weeks and today the final coat of finish was dry. The furniture consists of a desk with two cabinets below and two little cabinets on top…

  • I build a temporary cabinet out of MDF and scrap wood for the first modules to be installed in. When I’m out of room in this cabinet I will built a final cabinet which will look much nicer than this…

  • I finished the first modules for my modular synthesizer: two Oakley VCO Issue 4 modules. The build process was straight forward but I had to get used a bit to soldering with flux based organic solder and no-clean solder and…

  • When you reach a certain age you will do strange things. You will finally buy that Harley, let your hair grow or try to find a girlfriend who’s 20 years younger than yourself 😉 Fortunately I didn’t do any of…

  • To be able to move the camera in a professional way I decided to built a track based dolly. After researching a bit I came up with the following design. The track uses 28mm metal pipes. The platform is 80…

  • Being interested in visual effects I wanted to try out some rotoscoping. Rotoscoping is painting masks to block out parts of a film frame to be able to replace it with something else. The idea was to make a short…