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Humble Neurons (2022-2023)
Humble Neurons is a four cell neural network inspired deadbug synthesizer completed as a winter term project at Oberlin during my first year advised by Abby Aresty, and later presented at the NIME 2023 undergraduate and graduate student consortium. Each of the four cells in the network contains two bipolar weights (attenuverters), a clipper with bias, and an allpass filter. The tone is simple, but exhibits some entertaining behavior such as memory of previous state, cool stereo images, and subharmonic locking, calling to mind some of the sounds possible with the technologically similar no-input mixing board. See also the more elaborate deadbug neural network AANN by Phillip Stearns, which I learned of after completing this project.
Figure 1. Neurons in tupperware