“May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
„Möge das, was ich tue, aus mir herausfließen wie ein Fluss, ohne Zwang und ohne Zurückhaltung, so wie es bei Kindern ist.“ ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Musik & Produktion by Elemental Child © 2023
The raw analog waveforms of a vintage Magical Musical Thing children’s synthesizer. The Magical Musical Thing was produced by Mattel, and invented by Franklin Eventoff, inventor of the Force-Sensing Resistor. Franklin now runs a company called Sensitronics that produces sensors. The oscillator contained within the MMT is based on a…
The charming bell sounds of a Japanese children’s toy from the fifties. The instrument was produced by Nomura (T. N.), a large manufacturer of tin-plated electronic toys. Although the item described itself as an “electric vibraphone,” it bears no resemblance to that instrument, and instead features an array of bells…
The raw analog waveforms of a Soviet-era children’s synthesizer. These Pif synths were designed for children. They were produced from roughly 1989-1993 in a city called Ромны in the Ukraine. The factory that produced them, Роменский завод АТС, specialized in industrial telephone equipment, but also made several consumer products including…
