Eternal Research, the startup dedicated to new instruments that harness electromagnetic fields (EMF), has opened a Kickstarter campaign to fund the launch of its first commercial product, the Demon Box. Launched on September 3 and fully funded in ten minutes, the Demon Box Kickstarter will run until October 3, 2024. Supporters will gain early access to the first units with estimated delivery in March 2025.
Built for everyone, the Demon Box isn’t like other instruments. It’s an open palette that focuses on bringing out the chaos in everyday things to experience hidden music in everyday noise. The goal of the Kickstarter campaign is to connect with like-minded creators who want to experience and find this music. The Demon Box has been nearly a decade in development. Eternal Research founder Alexandra Fierra wanted to devise an instrument that could create the music she had long felt in her head, but that wouldn’t require hours of complex setup. She began to experiment with inductors.
The original Demon Box was a 6″ x 6″ wooden prototype that housed an active bass guitar pickup with additional electronics to boost the output. However rough, this enabled Fierra and her collaborator, engineer Bryn Nieboer, to rapidly develop the initial concept. After months of experimentation the 7th iteration of the Demon Box introduced a triangular arrangement of pickups, which marked a breakthrough in our design. This led to a three-channel system of mono outputs, removing left and right orientation to allow for more exploratory and innovative sound compositions. Now in its thirteenth iteration, the latest version of the Demon Box is in a triangular field that translates the electromagnetic resonances of innumerable objects and devices into three channels.
The triangle shape was very intentional, notes inventor and musician Alexandra Fierra. She says, “So much of western music is in reference to four– time signatures and shapes of plug-ins and devices most always revolve around squares and rectangles. The triangle shape allows for a different orientation than what we’re used to. I believe that the physical design of something influences its use. I knew the design of the Demon Box needed to be original and promote out-of-the-box thinking to create music like you’ve never heard.”
About Eternal Research
Eternal Research is a startup dedicated to creating new instruments that unlock the existing music hidden in everyday things and experiences by harnessing electromagnetic fields (EMF). Using a proprietary system of 33 inductors to translate EMF into sound, Eternal Research’s first commercial product, the Demon Box, can play anything from a cell phone to a hairdryer, process this signal, and make it musical. It promises to open up a vast new dimension of music making for new creators as well as experienced electronic and experimental musicians.
