Saw this guy live in 2006 in a former dance studio. He inflated a giant worm thing made of garbage bags with the obligatory one big fish eye on it and contact mics throughout, and flew it over the audience, whenever we touched it, it made noise. Super fun show. Never seen him with a shirt on before.

This is exactly why I subscribed to perfect circuit. Both KZfaq and Newsletter.

This is brilliant. And hilarious. I am the proud owner of a Crank Sturgeon piezo mic, and incorporate it into Mutable Instruments Ears, then resonate with Rings. Good times!

*looks music teacher straight in the eyes "PACKING TAPE IS AN INSTRUMENT!"

Seen crank many times . Old school RRR, mass . Etc . guy rules. Performance artist.Check his records.

Crank is the MAN! I have a shaker box model of his named after my project (Depth Charge Gamelan 3CC) and its my proudest achievement.

I was enjoying this so much that I forgot the dude was wearing a spaceship

Got here from Red Krayola strapping contact microphones to their throats and a melting block of ice in 1967, I was thinking wouldn't it be cool to buy one and get my heartbeat with it and wow it's done right at the end of this video!

Gotta love Crank. Choice gear for noise nerds.

Hunter Thompson... if he were an electronic music freak. Thnx for uploading and sharing some ideas!

Really love your videos. Outstanding.

Got my kit today. Two contact mics and a tetanus shot. I'm good.

Wicked, once saw a guy put a contact mic in his mouth a produce poetry. Changed my mind on how sounds stroke music can be created. produce these whacky sounds them sample them and make them into new musical devices

loved the rubberband solo

Love it, spider from another web!

Sequencer and you're gold.

VERY COOL CRANK STURGEON

this is why i do experimental music

Mr. Crank Sir, you need a channel of your own to demo all these f'n COOL devices that you've created!!! Please let us know where we can see them all in action!!!!

amazing!

The one and only ❤

This is brilliant! Now I’ve got enough inspiration for that contact mic i bought years ago and was collecting dust since then. Thanks

My kind of dude 🤘

Great

"We were so poor we had to eat the toys, Eddie! My mamma could make a Slinky that would melt in your mouth."

Thumbs up just for the crazy head gear

Awesome, reminds me of some wild contact mic to odd performance characters, love the sounds. It's ASMR like on some

Crank Sturgeon is my spirit animal haha We also make contact mic and transducer modules for Eurorack from our workshop in Bristol UK :)

Holy shit I bought a contact mic from this guy like 10 years ago

Inspiring - building a soundbox atm and this helps a lot \0/

grab every piece of metal in sight!

freedom af, I saw him back in 2017/2018 i guess with if, bwana

Feckin' oarsum!

wazaaaaaaaaa #Streampunks FTW! exelent bro love you imagination wazaaaaa

The goat

How a man has fun...

Fucking love Crank. Listen to what this guy tells you!

How are those mics with feedback? Or how do you reduce undesired feedback when there are loud speakers playing back the sound?

Had my gallbladder removed by a Crank surgeon. Sometimes it feels as if he left the mic in there. Yeah yeah... feels like that packing tape sounds! Perfect! Man... I gotta get me a head piece like that. Hope it doesn’t cost as much as a eurorack module. Go man go! I had fun and I’m not even the guy doing all the stuff with the things... Dude Dude Dude... you invented like 35 instruments right there. Picture your Mom watching this video as she is in the pain of giving birth to you... and is told it’s you in the future. Lol... then it’s f**king hilarious! Just spitballing ideas, here Sterg Baby. Ha ha ha Seriously though... I mean... if the word (seriously) can be used anywhere near here? I Loved this on a level very explainable if considered after watching other product tutorials. They can be (seriously) boring... even if very useful and informative. Also... I like to think/Hope you enraged some strict contact mic audiophiles somewhere. Ha ha ha It’s funny see... cuz none of that makes any sense. Oh yeah... nothing makes any sense these dayssssss... Ok never-miiiiiiiiiind... ... ... 🤖Random Robot Head Award🤖given! ! ! ! ! Congratulations... 🎉

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I bet something similar was used in the Golden Age of radio.

Is this a new show on UHF?

I miss my wife

that spoon at one point was like F::k my ears

5:20 Well now I know how they did the lightning sounds in 'Big trouble in little China'

What are the lowest frequencies the contact mics are able to detect? Most of mics are able to get till 20hz, but I supposed that contact mics can go also lower or they stop at 20hz?

Crank I love you, but put a hi pass filter on the contatc mic (so we here just the sounds an not the "thud" exept for the big spring of course!)!

Ah yes, a perfect rendition of Karlheinz Stockhausen's 'Ich Bin Betrunken und Gelangweilt und Ich Hasse Meinen Nachbarn'.

What is the name of this steel spring this minute 5:10 Please.

7:22, seinfeld

Amazing ... now we need a sampler ... any recommended?

perfect way to b ;)

Sounds like autechre :)

pls restock :-((((

“Oh you’re a musician? What do you play?”

my problem with contact mics is whenever i use them they hum like a bitch and i dont know how to fix that issue. but theyre really fun !

No valkoocibul!

me after 3 days of mescaline

As you dig into a world of undiscovered sounds you must admit not all of them were meant to be listened to, I.e. Packing tape does NOT replace a Violin. The Traditional instruments that exist today were not shaped and designed randomly.......having said that experiments are GOOD and new sounds CAN be interesting and enjoyable. Frank Zappa knew this when he made his " Lumpy Gravy " album .

"Plug Ugly"? Really?!? You missed the chance calling it a "Plugly"

Ten minutes of mud.

Why’s he got a bag on his head?