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the bench

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The modules on the bench

LAMP's panel: a round window for the bulb at the top, its glow printed as gold rings on black with a cord running up to the name, and eleven knobs and jacks on a staggered grid

lamp

tremolo by lamplight

12 HP · A$650

HUM's panel: a lit power pole, its crossarm, insulators and wires, a transformer throwing sparks, drawn in gold hum lines on black, with twelve knobs and jacks on a staggered grid and a 50/60 toggle

hum

a drone tuned to the mains

12 HP · A$450

The Carnyx front panel: two hands in gold halftone dots hold the bronze tube of a war horn up into its dark 2.7-inch screen, and rings of gold dots spread out round the screen like the horn's blast.

carnyx

a war horn with forty-eight heads

20 HP · A$700

CODEC's panel: a screen of plain glass windows at the top, a portrait window either side of a five-digit frequency, and gold halftone fringes fanning down the panel between three knobs and twelve jacks

codec

a ghost on the radio

20 HP · A$700

THARN's panel: an old car coming head on at night in gold halftone, its two round lamps the module's two headlights glaring in chrome holders, the wet road's reflections running down between the jacks

tharn

frozen in the headlights

12 HP · A$550

THUMP's panel: a black rabbit in gold halftone dots on black, lit from above, its eyes two dark hollows and its ears either side of the name, with twenty-two knobs and jacks on a staggered grid

thump

drums that duck the rack

20 HP · A$700

BORROW's panel: a magpie swooping straight at you in gold halftone, wings spread across the panel and beak open, its head under the name; four violet lights round the big BORROW knob, three of them lit

borrow

a chord the drums steal from

20 HP · A$550

POKE's panel: a chip's die under the microscope in gold halftone, its bond wires fanning out to the panel's edges; BEND on the die's centre with a square cyan light in each of its four blocks, the CLOCK switch below

poke

impression machine

20 HP · A$600

SCREW's panel: a record turntable seen from straight above in gold halftone, the big SCREW knob on its spindle, one hard light lying across the record's grooves either side of it and two tonearms reaching up from the bottom corners; sixteen strobe dots ring the knob, three of them lit just behind the top

screw

slowed, on the clock

14 HP · A$700

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

20 HP · A$650

UMBILICAL's panel: a red countdown at the top, its digits and words windows of bare circuit board lit from behind, INTERNAL and RACING lit; below it slats of lit board run across the panel round the knobs and jacks, the lower ones orange, the top ones gone dark

umbilical

a stereo effect that runs on a cable

20 HP · A$650

PARRY's panel: a fighter in a stance in gold halftone haze, mirrored so the two square up across the middle, their fists all but touching; above them two life bars lit amber either side of a KO badge, and two super meters along the foot

parry

two patches fight for the mix

20 HP · A$750

MANIFEST's panel: a face under a burial sheet in tiny dots of bare circuit board, lit pale green-white from behind, a gold coin on the sheet over each eye, the sheet falling toward a thermal printer in the bottom half; a receipt hangs out of it, printed DEPARTED over her face with the coins on her eyes

manifest

she comes when something leaves

20 HP · A$1,000

CONTACT's panel: rings of gold dots spreading out across the black from a fan of bare circuit board under the name, thick where they pass through rolling steam; the fan's cells lit cold mint and white where contacts close in, a thin lit line round it, and two digits reading 04 under its point

contact

a clock that watches the patch

20 HP · A$850

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