Random Rings experiments is mostly me exploring the Mutable Instruments Rings module and trying to get even deeper into it. In this video I tried to put together a small, playable modular instrument based on Rings, Ears, the Sound Machines Lightstrip LS-1 and the Sonic Potions Penrose quantizer. The idea was to see if I could make something that I can play keeping the case on my lap. It kind of worked ok, but it would need a more advanced (and bigger) controller, to be able to play something with more control.

Ears is used to both create the part of the excitation signal (in the second part of the video it is mixed with the output from the Hexinverter Jupiter Storm) and to trigger an envelope (for the JS) and the quantizer, making it produce another note based on the voltage coming out of the LS-1. Basically this instrument works that you hit the contact mic in Ears to trigger a note, and use the Lightstrip to determine the note that should be played.