Crystelling
an open lab to grow crystals with piezoelectric intra-active frequencies
2018, Brussels, San Fransico, Orléans

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INTRO
bolwerK will combine parascientific history, anthropology, and technology to familiarize ourselves to the electromagnetic spectrum and to how radio and farming metaphors intertwine. During this open lab, we will grow crystals, and experiment with their physical, accoustic, electric and electromagnetic properties transmitting and receiving signals from the body to the mind (of others) & intra-acting frequencies. While seeding the crystals, we will think critically about the contemporary cooptation and privatization of the electromagnetic sphere and was is the power of electric charge.

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WHAT

Crystals 
[img: http://www.cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/2593|300px]

Quartz
The Manufacturing of Synthetic Quartz Crystals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFH8_uLzano
lab grown quartz :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcu8Lz5PHMw
quartz clock: secret life of machines: http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/

Spirit science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6pYAiRqhio
Crystals and Science; energies, frequencies and vibration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdQB55ErZuU

Know healing crystals come from https://newrepublic.com/article/148190/know-healing-crystals-come-from
/yale-physicists-find-signs-time-crystal: https://news.yale.edu/2018/05/02/yale-physicists-find-signs-time-crystal

Gems and crystal growing (general) https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-235-gems_are_truly_outrageous#t=310
crystal industrial fabrication: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b--FKHCFjOM

Les Brown Physics Of Crystals Full Documentary.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APvlD4-_uWw&t=1333s
Women in : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282457897_The_legacy_of_women_to_crystallography

 

THEORY

diffracting interfaces
https://laurabenitezvalero.com/2017/08/21/diffractive-interfaces-arts-santa-monica-sonar-festival/

system amplification
See Gilbert Simondon °On the mode of existence of technical objects" and "Individuation"

contextual
darija mledic:  In the age of magical reproduction:
anna friz: http://nicelittlestatic.com/about/publications-and-presentations/
http://www.academia.edu/14287159/The_Radio_of_the_Future_Redux_Rethinking_Transmission_Through_Experiments_in_Radio_Art_2011_
the dreamling jewel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dreaming_Jewels#/media/File:TheDreamingJewels%281stEd%29.jpg
ice nine- catt's cradle cystallization as a bio weapon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
ice nine /http://architectureforguerillas.blogspot.be/2010/11/ice-nine-or-how-to-grow-concrete-from.html



HOW TO


Rochelle salt

COOK
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get pure products
natriumcarbonate need to be sealed, 
it will naturally turn to bicarbonate by reacting with th emositure in the air
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Crystal growing: Rochelle salt http://dmishin.blogspot.be/2014/11/crystal-growing-rochelle-salt.html
How to make seed crystals: https://www.youtube.com/embed/cNyQ_pMGxWs?autoplay=0&rel=0
Handbook of chemistry: https://archive.org/details/HandbookOfChemistryAndPhysics8thEd.1920

first crystal batch: https://sites.google.com/site/scidiy/diy-electro/piezo-rochelle-salt-crystal
first crystal batch:http://www.daycounter.com/Chemistry/Rochelle-Salt-Crystals/
kitchen: http://www.overunity.com/972/crystal-power-cell-by-john-hutchison/dlattach/attach/45546/
How to Make Sodium Carbonate From Sodium Bicarbonate reaction: https://www.thoughtco.com/make-sodium-carbonate-from-sodium-bicarbonate-608266
molecular weight calculator: https://www.lenntech.com/calculators/molecular/molecular-weight-calculator.htm
kitchen: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-Rochelle-Salt/

recepy: http://www.extremenxt.com/blog/?page_id=77

control - checksum : 
calculation of  natriumbicarbonate into natrium carbonate
500g> 315gr
(using molecular

CONVERSION
oscilloscope: 434 storage oscilloscope tectronics: http://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/434
make: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxZWcku_Sw0


SIGNALING
ultrasonic? 430K HZ - 
measure the frequency of a crystal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv2Xcjga_Vc
https://www.parallax.com/product/28015
Piezo electricit - extra amplification:  http://www.richardmudhar.com/blog/using-piezo-contact-mics-right/
Piezo-disk Preamplifier + opamp / http://interface.khm.de/index.php/lab-log/piezo-disk-preamplifier/
Pineal gland crystal oscillatorhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1285888/?reload=true


RESONANCE FREQUENCY
Counter Culture Labs & sudoroom - art and science meeting / tuesday 31 july
- ceramic piezo
- organic grow piezo
- signal generator
- oscilloscope

We tried to drive the piezo crystal with a signal generator at 1kHz, 10V peak to peak - no sound. Switched to the ceramic piezo - heard a clear beep.

We taped the round ceramic piezo to the grown crystal; powered the ceramic piezo from the signal generator, and measured voltage from the grown crystal with the oscilloscope. The ceramic piezo acts as a speaker, vibrating the crystal. The crystal then acts as a microphone turning sound waves back into electricity. We +noticed that the faint 60Hz ripple on the oscilloscope actually flattened when we powered the ceramic piezo at 1kHz, but didn't see any actual 1kHz signal on the oscilloscope. So we increased the frequency on the signal generator, and we started seeing a signal on the oscilloscope - yay! 10kHz seemed to produce the strongest signal out of the crystal.

Next, we detached the grown crystal from the ceramic piezo, and taped it on a small cardboard box as an acoustic resonator. Then we connected the signal generator to the grown crystal directly (10kHz, 10V peak-to-peak), and heard a faint high-pitched beep.

http://leapsecond.com/hpan/an200-2.pdf
http://pages.suddenlink.net/wa5bdu/crystal_slide_show.pdf
https://www.jauch.com/downloadfile/5804d138f41b5_c3e35434e616a6a82bd5/quartz_crystal_theory_2007.pdf
https://www.electronicdesign.com/analog/fundamentals-crystal-oscillator-design


SOUND
louis and bebe baron - electronic /http://www.electrospectivemusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/louisbebebarron.jpg
Ring modulation  0:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mzjrhCguc4
Oscillomusic: http://oscilloscopemusic.com/


CONTEXT
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davide tidoni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyzbUUe1taU&list=PLAqgoxejYqsCvX6XW3PwFLBExkGFBhy4p
https://soundcloud.com/davide-tidoni/mike-the-drums-b
https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidetidoni/albums/72157695005216935

pacale barret
http://www.pascalebarret.com/


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DOCUMENTATION
https://hsbxl.be/Crystelling