daylight noise

Strange instruments for a eurorack case.

Each one has a page where you can see it, hear it and play it.

try them all in VCV Rack, free

The modules

The GIF GIF GIF front panel: black, with gold pixel rings of the word GIF looping out of the GIF jack, 26 knobs, three encoders, ten jacks and a yellow RCA output. 'gif gif gif' is at the top and 'daylight noise' at the bottom.

gif gif gif

a gif for every note

video synthesiser

36 HP

More modules

TONGUES's panel: a woman singing a long note, in gold halftone: her eyes shut under a crown of big daisies and poppies, garlands of daisies down both sides of her face, her mouth wide open; its sixteen upper teeth windows of bare glass lit bone white, its tongue a screen of dots lit rose, WORD on it like a stud and the TAKE button at its foot

tongues

a voice you play by the syllable

vocal sampler

20 HP

HOARD's panel: two bony hands in gold dots reaching down out of the dark, fingers curled, for a row of eight jar-shaped windows of bare circuit board standing on a gold shelf along the foot, lit red, the last one shimmering hot

hoard

save it up, spend it all

effect

20 HP

THEN's panel: a bare tree in gold halftone, its trunk up the middle and its crown behind three rows of little diamond windows of bare circuit board, red lines of family lit between them

then

you can't patch the future

sequencer

20 HP

FRITH's panel: plain black with a tall window in the middle edged by a thin white line, and in it a warren on the down at sunrise in black and yellow dots, an old oak, rabbits out by their holes, frith above and daylight noise below

frith

watch over a warren

e-paper blank

20 HP

MAGI's panel: a honeycomb of seventeen hexagonal tiles of bare circuit board, lit amber and orange from behind, a knob or a jack at the centre of most, four of them reading EMERGENCY

magi

three judges that vote

detector

20 HP

HUM's panel: a lit power pole, its crossarm, insulators and wires, a transformer throwing sparks, drawn in gold hum lines on black, with fourteen knobs and jacks and two lit buttons on a staggered grid and MAINS, a two-way switch with a dot at each stop

hum

the power line sings

drone

20 HP

All of them are in VCV Rack, for you to try.

Every module on this page, in one plugin for VCV Rack 2, free. Each is the module itself, not a copy of it: its own firmware runs it, and the panel is the real one, lit by the engine. Two more come only in Rack: TELLY, a TV for GIF GIF GIF, and BLOWER, a phone for TRUNK CALL.

In Rack, choose Help, then Open user folder, and put the file in the plugins folder there. Start Rack again and they're in the module browser under daylight noise. It needs Rack 2.6 or newer.

The noise of machines, by day.

In Richard Adams's Watership Down, the down stands high enough above the fields that there float up “only faint traces of the daylight noise below”: the roads, the tractors, the lorries. The rabbits call those machines hrududil.

These are machines too, and they make their noise on purpose. Patch them, play them, and let them be heard. The sky behind this page isn't yours: it's the one over daylight noise in Victoria, Australia.

Nothing's for sale yet.

These are the modules being made first. If one of them belongs in your rack, or you just want to talk about it, say hello.

hello@daylightnoise.com

Or follow along on YouTube.

youtube.com/@daylightnoise