towards liquid-state-machine http://www.transmediale.de/content/medienwerkstatt-berlin-liquid-state-machine

1] magnetite ferrofluid

//can be found in computer disk drive seals//

"Ferrofluids can be suspended in water or in an organic fluid. A typical ferrofluid is about 5% magnetic solids, 10% surfactant, and 85% carrier, by volume. One type of ferrofluid you can make uses magnetite for the magnetic particles, oleic acid as the surfactant, and kerosene as the carrier fluid to suspend the particles." http://chemistry.about.com/od/demonstrationsexperiments/ss/liquidmagnet.htm

eg. citric acid and light silicone oil/biodiesil

see also http://www.dansdata.com/magnets.htm#ff

a) use to 'measure' oscillations from [[http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=tempelhof | Berlin Tempelhof]] wheel (eg. seal 10% in tube and fill rest with ethanol/isopropanol and attach to wheel)

b) diy field viewing film - apply to thin acetate/similar 


==== Actual ====

saltwater antenna +

theremin schematic: http://www.thereminworld.com/pics/schematics/simple.jpg

= crude saltwater theremin supplying Herr Howse's paper cup AND logic gate model
= a trivial machine nested together with a non-trivial machine whose function is not fully known 
= inverted, non-trivial machine in Von Foerster's terms.

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ferromess and dendritic growths

mixing carbonates, metals and sulphates with acids

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