We were ensconced in our office, the hum of radio equipment buzzing away around us, and I was looking at some rather interesting documents, including the picture enclosed.
“So,” I began carefully, “You want to replace the Bombastophone in the Rookswood Brewery… with these?”
“Yes,” Ms. Flood responded without a moment’s pause, “It’ll give Mr Rayna some prims back. Just get Mr. P. to mesh them up and…”
“Hold,” I raised a hand. “Why mesh?”
“Leaves prims free for the actuators,” she responded. “Each of the Intonarumori has an actuator, like a button, pedal, crank or plunger, and a lever to control pitch. Not including a place to stand and operate the things – although I feel having a giant music box thing to control them might be fun.”
“Fun,” I murmured, imagining the existing machine replaced by a garrison of these frankly dull-looking wooden boxes. “Perhaps we should bronze a newbie for a presiding automaton?”
Alas! O Maku ibn-Selat, you fool, when will you learn to keep your mouth shut?
I have received the following missive from Mr Pontecorvo:
Newbies don’t work. Found something better at the Asylum Museum. Now considering a pair of hand-cranked gramophones, a card reader, and a ‘crate’.
What have I done?
great find! I had no idea interest in noise music was that old.
There’s a bit more to it than that. Miss Flood hardly ever uses a DJ booth, and it has prefers to dance to her own tune with the audience, as ’twere. Therefore, what use a booth, when an automaton would suffice? (Particularly when a radio station is involved.)
Also, it is proving quite a challenge to develop down to the desired prim count. Personally I suspect that it will come in two parts…