THE First Surviving BENJOLIN Synthesizer. And the story is quite interesting!

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  • Опубліковано 29 кві 2024
  • The Blippo Extravaganza Benjolin, The survivng Plinth, Built By the late Rob Hordijk and Kassen. Which is believed to be the first surviving Benjolin, or very close to that!
    • The Worlds First Benjo...
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    It Also keeps the lights on at @THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE where you can come and play this synth!
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    @HainbachKassen's Flickr album of the festival :-
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    hans bricks
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    Space Pope
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    Ande Spenser
    Arnix T-Bone
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    David Boudreau
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  • @Hainbach
    @Hainbach 22 дні тому +64

    Thanks for letting me play with this piece of history! Just picked up my Blippoo from customs yesterday. RIP Rob.

    • @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
      @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER  22 дні тому +12

      Awesome! How is it?

    • @Hainbach
      @Hainbach 22 дні тому +9

      @@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER No time to play since yesterday 😭

  • @Waccoon
    @Waccoon 21 день тому +8

    That thing reminds me of the good old days when I was obsessed with RAMscanning. You know, playing your computer's memory directly through a speaker.
    Now I can enjoy all the same sounds without needing a computer!

  • @muppetpaster
    @muppetpaster 22 дні тому +21

    Rob (Hordijk) was a close familyfriend....Dearly missed.

  • @BingoBongoBengo
    @BingoBongoBengo 22 дні тому +8

    Was not expecting to love the sounds coming out of that threatening monolith as much as I did!

  • @andrewdixon681
    @andrewdixon681 22 дні тому +2

    His philosophy on that machine is truly amazing

  • @AB-Prince
    @AB-Prince 22 дні тому +11

    I would love to be able to replicate the circuits, to incorperate into a 'tardis console' simulator. because part of the alure to me of the tardis' control pannel is that every control is important and has a pupose, but it is entirely non-linear in how each control efects how all the other controls interact.

    • @jo___dem
      @jo___dem 21 день тому

      Rungler schematic is easily accessible online

  • @wiresmith2398
    @wiresmith2398 19 днів тому

    Aiiiii, you ought to see if you can build the Temporally Displaced Third Monolith to complete the Benjolin again! I love it!

  • @Musikkeller-Innsider
    @Musikkeller-Innsider 22 дні тому +3

    It's unpredictable and really gnarly, I love the sound!

  • @tjebbevanderkooij276
    @tjebbevanderkooij276 22 дні тому +1

    This brings back lots of memories, Remember picking this up and playing with it, and while doing a acidset that night in the army tent we had to play around it as it made sound constantly, people freaking out on it an interplaying with the acid set super awesome, Wished I had a recording of that, Those where some great times, all days its sounds being tweaked by random people, oh fun can see myself hiding behind Kassen in the truck while we unloaded it at the festival, Would have been nice to show u the radiotonka studio and the place rob worked in the villa maybe another time! also we where painting more then 10.000 toy soldiers with blue helmets and placed all around the tent also there where these wooden soldiers that where shooting each other out side of the tent made by kassen en rob bothof it all was pure chaos etc ...best editon of todaysart ever doing guerilla art on the streets, And as part of a statement too the city council too have more culturural places primarily empty buildings and organizing events we then squatted an old cinema called asta as part of the conflict and too use the then many empty buildings for art and music which in the end we sort achieved, also during the night after the festival ended I was caretaker save guarding the installations, turned to the benjolin which was still on in the night freakin and passing time with it,, which made the local police go bonkers! great fun anyways great to see it again and tanks for making me remember this awesome time I had.

  • @gastonsounds
    @gastonsounds 19 днів тому

    Well this is just wonderful, thank you for sharing

  • @Colin_Ames
    @Colin_Ames 20 днів тому

    Fascinating story.

  • @kindness333
    @kindness333 22 дні тому +2

    11:37 this part right there is a pure cinema

  • @spaceman103
    @spaceman103 21 день тому +2

    Cheese, tulips, weed and Benjolins. Rob Hordijk made the real Dutch staple. We should do a makeover of the national anthem with it.😊

  • @umbertoyltp
    @umbertoyltp 22 дні тому +1

    I have been to the festival in The Hague in a distant past and saw it in action. Kids love it because no knowledge is required. Coñgrats with the Museum's adoption, it found a proper home.❤

  • @raketensessel5570
    @raketensessel5570 21 день тому

    What a fine machine! Very inspiring sounds.

  • @eden_grey
    @eden_grey 22 дні тому

    This is fantastic!!

  • @atomikaya
    @atomikaya 22 дні тому +2

    I can't leave you with just butt bot comments! Amazing job mate, I always enjoy your videos :)

  • @NKHHOTUK
    @NKHHOTUK 21 день тому

    That sounds so cool

  • @TheDistur
    @TheDistur 22 дні тому

    You're always hunting down the coolest stuff!

    • @gutterg0d
      @gutterg0d 22 дні тому +1

      I think it's the cool stuff that gravitate toward Sam, not the other way around.

  • @traumgeist
    @traumgeist 22 дні тому +1

    Now you have to build a benjolele to accompany it.

  • @padders1068
    @padders1068 22 дні тому

    Thanks Sam! That's a nice if not totally bonkers 😂 piece of kit! 🙂😎❤

  • @user-oy9ou8ve1y
    @user-oy9ou8ve1y 20 днів тому

    If anyone is wondering what he was trying to pronounce, he visited De Besturing in The Hague.

  • @andywatts8654
    @andywatts8654 19 днів тому

    It’s all about the Benjolins baby

  • @dedicatedspuddler7641
    @dedicatedspuddler7641 22 дні тому +1

    Way out, way cool!

  • @orchestratedpassage9468
    @orchestratedpassage9468 21 день тому +1

    giving conflict the reacharound

  • @OmBotCult
    @OmBotCult 22 дні тому

    I love it!

  • @phildxyz
    @phildxyz 22 дні тому

    I feel like I've been transported back to the 70s and the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition by Peter Zinovieff. Yes, I'm so old I was there :) Great to bump into you at Avoncroft the other week - keep doing the mad stuff!

    • @EntropicEcho
      @EntropicEcho 22 дні тому +1

      Never heard of the good man but did some digging around. That dude was ahead of his time, really interesting. Thanks for sharing!

    • @phildxyz
      @phildxyz 22 дні тому

      @@EntropicEcho Fascinating chap and as you say, way ahead of his time. Discovered he was a Russian nobleman who sold his ex wife's tiara to buy his first computer! The exhibition was at The ICA in The Mall in London. I was only about 11 at the time but it was a formative experience. Robots, Computers and weird sound machines - what's not to like :)

    • @EntropicEcho
      @EntropicEcho 22 дні тому +1

      @@phildxyz Amazing, I can imagine what kind of impression that would make on an 11 year old in that time. Awesome!

  • @jukingeo
    @jukingeo 15 днів тому

    It reminds me a lot of the WSG or Weird Sound Generator from Music From Outer Space. I would be surprised if it is based on that.

  • @LarsDonner
    @LarsDonner 22 дні тому

    Makes me wonder what kind of power source could be used, so that it really can't be turned off for the next 100 years

  • @davisuture9610
    @davisuture9610 22 дні тому

    Our Benjolin is my favourite instrument, the PCB was chemically burnt into life in my friend's sink.

  • @hakology
    @hakology 22 дні тому

    love it :)

  • @jirioto6089
    @jirioto6089 22 дні тому

    Nice sonic changer.

  • @RichardHartness
    @RichardHartness 22 дні тому +4

    The dissonance of that box (especially imagining two across from each other, separated by about a meter) sounds terrible, obnoxious and super-annoying. Hearing it's genesis and purpose makes this a true piece of art. It's amazing how context can 100% shift someone's perspective. I really hate that the opposite one was cannibalized and destroyed. This is a fascinating piece of machinery and art.

    • @wariusgaius
      @wariusgaius 22 дні тому

      I am stroking my beard right now

  • @howardmaryon
    @howardmaryon 22 дні тому +4

    When Sam meets Hainbach, cool sounds occur.

  • @weapea
    @weapea 22 дні тому

    Propably kraakbox with atari punk console and simplest oscillator inside..👍 my "mod6" sounds the similar on some times.. i dont remeber what i put inside it, but an old c-cassette player and other electro stuff 😊

  • @boimesa8190
    @boimesa8190 22 дні тому

    Agga represent! Rust in vrede Rob!

  • @andrewhaggerty549
    @andrewhaggerty549 21 день тому

    You Time Lords are going to save the world. ❤

  • @howardmaryon
    @howardmaryon 22 дні тому

    This object looks like it came out of a Soviet scifi film in the 1960’s

  • @boimesa8190
    @boimesa8190 22 дні тому

    Damn! Cant there be a mini version made of this?!

    • @DaveBenhamMusic
      @DaveBenhamMusic 21 день тому

      There are many, many Benjolins out in this world. Rob published plans for how to build them and gave workshops where people created their own. Many people still do. There are at least two companies currently building and selling Benjolins, including one in Eurorack format (After Later Audio). A virtual version can be created for free with VCV Rack and free modules. In my Venom plugin for VCV I have created a Benjolin Oscillator that includes the two oscillators and the Rungler - all it needs is a resonant state variable filter module to create a functioning Benjolin.

  • @maartendb8107
    @maartendb8107 22 дні тому

    legendary Bunker Records Hoodie

  • @brucegoatly
    @brucegoatly 22 дні тому

    "'Ere, do you know one of the knobs 'as fallen off?" "Nah, but you 'um it and I'll pick it up."

  • @cerealkilled3871
    @cerealkilled3871 22 дні тому

    Hey Sam, I live in the USA, and as such coming to visit your museum is a bit of a hassle. Any chance you want to collab with someone state side to build the Not Opsleum?

  • @marksieczko7766
    @marksieczko7766 22 дні тому +1

    Yeah, "necessity is the Mother of Invention", "Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration", "You can get it if really want", "Keep on truckin'"

  • @FredBloggs919
    @FredBloggs919 22 дні тому

    Ha! Somebody else had the Operation idea!!

  • @pasde2
    @pasde2 22 дні тому

    Sam's (old) video on the Benjolin : ua-cam.com/video/f_IgEoStZNk/v-deo.html

  • @adadinthelifeofacyclist
    @adadinthelifeofacyclist 22 дні тому +1

    Visit Petr Valek!

  • @arykanary93
    @arykanary93 22 дні тому

    Such a shame that I missed you at cafe Bosch..

  • @martinfox9443
    @martinfox9443 22 дні тому

    6❤❤❤ very cool 😎 madness

  • @buckstarchaser2376
    @buckstarchaser2376 21 день тому

    How does it... ehhh... how does it werk?

  • @althejazzman
    @althejazzman 20 днів тому

    This thing is completely chaotic and random. A perfect reflection of conflict! Do the lines mean anything?

    • @conceptfrequencymod
      @conceptfrequencymod 20 днів тому +1

      Do the lines mean anything? Not really :D It matches my Mobile Modu;lar Synth caravan

    • @althejazzman
      @althejazzman 20 днів тому

      @@conceptfrequencymod That's all that matters!

  • @markae0
    @markae0 22 дні тому

    Bigger than life

  • @arlekeno_
    @arlekeno_ 21 день тому

    Can we have that module plan?

  • @blenderbuch
    @blenderbuch 20 днів тому

    Hmmm? Did i miss it at the show in Berlin?

    • @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
      @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER  20 днів тому

      It was on the merch desk

    • @blenderbuch
      @blenderbuch 20 днів тому

      @@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER maybe I was too flashed after your show or I just did not recognize it 😎

  • @LoxleyMusic
    @LoxleyMusic 19 днів тому

    9:50 There's no such screenshot.

  • @curtishoffmann6956
    @curtishoffmann6956 22 дні тому +1

    "Exterminate! Exterminate!"

  • @stoned466
    @stoned466 22 дні тому

  • @LoxleyMusic
    @LoxleyMusic 5 днів тому

    3:46 Hey! That's Kassen Oud! He's a twit. I hope it wasn't too unpleasant for you to have to talk to him. I'd advice to avoid any interactions with him in the future.

  • @AnalogDude_
    @AnalogDude_ 22 дні тому

    5:04 number one, you can't adjust the volume, lol.
    Cool machine, you should write "conlict" on it with tape.
    I hope you liked the Netherlands, did you saw / drive the constant 10 lane wide and sometimes wide A2, highway?
    That's the widest highway in europe, that piece is like 30 km long.
    Check the workings from the "struder 961 mixer" in the "archiv", SWISS MADE!!!
    The FETS audio switches with fade, the "EQ", you should design a 24 channel mono mixer with stereo pan and 4 stereo busses. voltage controlled fader, the eq from the "struder", send/ return, input amp mechanism (synth/line) with overload led (opamp wave rectifier circuit from Falstad).
    use the "NE5534" opamp, this one is used in mixers, use CD4013 for the FETS (audio switches), but driven from "+/-10V" logic!
    One board per channel, in 90º from the mainboard with the faders and switches, buttons. some kind of modular system with Neutric in/outputs nd chep options to replace broken stuf.
    I have simulated the "FET audio switches" as described with CD4013 and it works perfect! the best choice is fet optocoupler "H11" and calculate 20 mA from 10V, that's what I'm routing right now, a dual channel audio switch module.
    the Pan circuit are 4 equal resistor of 50K with 50K pot with the wiper to GND, shaped in sort of an X.
    There is also SWISS audio amplifier company, you need to bring at least 2 "new" cars for trade for a "stereo" amplifier.
    But it does somehow look like swiss made watch, indestructible.

  • @colinhockings
    @colinhockings 20 днів тому

    Did you go to The Hague because of your crimes against Furbies?

  • @TheEntireUniverse
    @TheEntireUniverse 21 день тому

    Oh cmon you have to open it up and figure out how the circuits actually work!!! It sounds too cool not to share that knowledge

    • @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER
      @LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER  21 день тому +1

      Shared the benjolin circuit info in the last vid on it. Just search up benjolin. Lots on it. This video is not about the benjolin circuit but the first benjolin

  • @rachorman7087
    @rachorman7087 День тому

    Hola , soy tu vecino. ¿Podrías dejar de hacer esos ruidos a las 4 am?

  • @alienzardsketter.9076
    @alienzardsketter.9076 22 дні тому

    You cant make music on a computer,,, its not a music interment...this fart box sounds amazing .

  • @NinoJoel
    @NinoJoel 22 дні тому

    7:12 *Eww* 🤮 Berlin

  • @chloedevereaux1801
    @chloedevereaux1801 22 дні тому

    not a synth, its a tone / noise generator with modulation....... not playable at all........

    • @organfairy
      @organfairy 22 дні тому +1

      I'm reminded of an old Dilbert comic strip where the lazy, smelly, and disorganised Wally is asked to solve a problem in the design department. He is presented to a weird gadget with a shape roughly like his bald head. The designer says "all it does is take up space and smell bad" to which Wally reasons that "it sounds like a gift object". In this case we can say that 'all it does is take up space and make noise' and Sam clearly sees it as a gift object too 🙂

    • @erlannderrantem6972
      @erlannderrantem6972 22 дні тому +3

      A synth or synthesizer is EVERYTHING that creates sound synthetically, so it in fact is a Synth, whether you like it or not.

  • @FiglioBastardo
    @FiglioBastardo 12 днів тому

    I'd love to see y'all add an "Infrasubwoofer" to y'all's set-up!

  • @AATRAXX
    @AATRAXX 22 дні тому