gears and gardens
Two pieces that are less instrument and more place.
Räderwerk is a drawing machine made of brass: gears drive pen arms, the pens draw on a turning plate, and a chaotic double pendulum tugs at everything. The teeth hum, cams pluck a music box. It is the closest thing to a harmonograph I have ever built.
Gengarten 64 is a garden in the colours of a Commodore 64. Every plant carries a genome, crosses with its neighbours and mutates, so new species appear on their own. Mostly you just watch. It keeps growing while you are away.
Also repaired: the 2004 time capsule. Galleries 2 to 6 were there all along but could not be reached; now they can. The little eggs in the old music section did not survive the Wayback copy, so they were redrawn.