On the breadboard
Circuit exploration, Formulas, initial measurements, and working questions.
Curated Corrosion · Workshop → Relic → Laboratory → Foundry
The Workshop
Where specimens, circuit questions, and musical purpose become documented instruments.
The collections and the working bench
Four collections give instruments a home. The Laboratory preserves the development that brings each OCI there. A collection describes the purpose of a build; a progress label records where that particular OCI stands.
Collection 01
Workshop Series
Where every story begins.
Learning, first implementations, and prototypes whose questions become the foundation of later instruments.
Instrument archive forthcoming
Finalized OCI records will appear here as individual links, carrying their development history, linked specimens, photographs, and service record.
Collection 02
Relic Collection
Modern craftsmanship. Timeless circuits.
Modern production components selected for reliability and musicality, honoring historical circuits through deliberate craftsmanship.
Instrument archive forthcoming
Finalized OCI records will appear here as individual links, carrying their development history, linked specimens, photographs, and service record.
Collection 03
Laboratory Collection
Experimentation and discovery.
Unusual circuits, component comparisons, hybrids, and instruments whose purpose includes continued investigation.
Instrument archive forthcoming
Finalized OCI records will appear here as individual links, carrying their development history, linked specimens, photographs, and service record.
Collection 04
Foundry Collection
Forged from reclaimed electronic history.
Instruments built around documented vintage specimens, individual characterization, provenance, and intentional placement.
Instrument archive forthcoming
Finalized OCI records will appear here as individual links, carrying their development history, linked specimens, photographs, and service record.
OCI development archive
The Laboratory
The record begins while the questions are still open.
Each OCI keeps one continuing history as it moves through development. These progress labels describe the instrument’s current stage; dated observations and earlier revisions remain preserved.
Test lab
Bench evaluation, bias, stability, noise, output, and documented musical comparisons.
OCI in production
The chosen revision becomes a physical instrument, with construction decisions and linked specimens recorded.
OCI Finalized
The completed instrument’s record gains an individual link within its assigned collection. Development history remains available.
OCI entries forthcoming
Each entry will carry its OCI identity, Family, Formulas, collection, current label, dated revisions, schematic references, linked OCS specimens, testing, listening context, and photographs. Service and replacement history continue after finalization.
The Laboratory workspace tracks development across all four collections. The Laboratory Collection is the home for instruments whose collection purpose is experimentation.
Formula → Family → Individual Instrument
A Formula is a developed stage or recipe. A Family is a design lineage. An OCI is an individual instrument with its own evidence and history. Two instruments in one Family may have distinct voices; each deserves an individual record.