from a forgotten lode (east wheal maid chalcopyrite trio) by cornish semiconductor corporation

The natural semiconductors used in this track are pieces from the same lump of solid chalcopyrite fossicked from minewaste at East Wheal Maid, Gwennap. Three shafts on a hilltop that overlook the "Wheal Maid Valley", site of the Great Consolidated Mines. The rubble falling down from the steep sides are full of mineralisation typical of these mines, pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena - but also a lot of dark siderite. The names of the shafts and the lodes here have been forgotten to history.

New electronics have been built to provide enveloped gates to free up the ones I've been using on the volca modulars meaning they synth can be used more simply, or even standalone now - preparation for a workshop so we can test minerals we collect with family groups, to provide sonification of different crystals. They are being triggered by a binary counter which can be setup to provide polyrhythms.