One of the reasons we have been a bit remiss on our show recording is because Jason and I have been knee deep in developing the most recent project for The League of Troubled Souls, our metal art venture.
We’ve received a Grant from BURN, the art arm of the Chicago Burning Man community, to build our most recent monster, The Acid Tongue. The short hand description of the Acid Tongue is this: a user puts a mask on their head. The mask is wired with a microphone. The user screams acerbic insults into said microphone. The input from the microphone runs through a computer running MAX/MSP which registers decibel thresholds and, when certain thresholds are met, sends a signal out of the USB port into Eric Singers‘ MIDITron which then opens solenoids in sync with their amplified insults. The solenoids, if you haven’t figured it out yet, dump plumes of propane across pilot flames causing big ass pillars of fire to pour out of the mouth and eyes of a 15′ metal devil head.
Over the next few weeks leading up to Lakes of Fire I’ll make my best attempts to keep you updated on our progress. We’re shooting plenty of video and will be posting that and, eventually, have a full cover of the inception to realization of this nasty little beast. Right now I’ve posted the sketches Jason made conceptualizing it. By early next week I’ll have some photos and video to tease you out as well.
If you’re anywhere near the middlewest I highly recommend you get your ass out to Lakes of Fire. This will indeed be the shit.
Tags: Acid Tongue, Burning Man, Lakes of Fire, League of Troubled Souls, Metal Art
Thats pretty fucking ssWEET! Can’t wait to see the pics!
Wish I could get to lakes of fire, but I’m stuck in the Northeast…
Looking forward to see where the creation of this thing takes you.
[...] week I put up a post about the Acid Tongue that myself and Viking Jason are building for the Lakes of Fire event at the end of June. [...]
Hey I want my frigging gas line back …This will be my reason for coming up for a visit…You crazed fuckers absolutely rocked shit from heaven to HELL and Back!!!!
I was amazed astounded! Made my weekend!
I’ve got the line in safe keeping. Why don’t we schedule a weekend at Greg’s and we can do some work with the solenoids? If you need it sooner than that for any reason let me know and I’ll get it in the mail to you.
Thanks for your help on this Larz! The four square was awesome, let’s get that thing on RF automation!!!