The sun may generate its own energy, but Noon is an 8 channel powerless instrument that draws its energy with incoming voltages from external sequencers for an organic sound, reports gearnews.com.

Striking us like a maze upon first glance, Noon features a field of interwoven sliders, buttons, and touch plates. The design of blue and gold makes Noon very easy on the eyes, and how takes energy from incoming gates to generate rhythms that aren’t so simple.

Each channel has an individual analog circuit that incoming gates and control voltages can trigger. Drawing power in this way creates instability in the analog circuit. But this creates organic textures and movement, so it accentuates the attributes of analog circuits. Electrons move and then decay, move again, load and unload, power and un-power, etc. This may be striking you as broken? But it’s the very point of the units’ process!

The analog circuits are powered momentarily by incoming gate and control voltage signals which causes them to oscillate naturally. These circuits are linked together so they can grow, inform and process one another in new and exciting rhythmic ways!

Designed with live performance in mind, all of the channels are linked to allow for cross-modulation of power and voltage. The sliders form a tuning fork for each channel which changes the behavior of the channel in question, as well as feedback and tuning. The controls that are featured on the unit allow you to access and rapidly alter the sounds and movement without any patching! The sheer amount of internal and external options from control voltage types, linked channel behavior as well as external audio input create so many opportunities for sound exploration.

There are a number of sound examples on the Landscape website. These examples include noise explosions, synth drones, and many more.

Noon will open for preorders in January 2022.

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