Mark Zampella is a musician, recording engineer, graphic designer, pedal builder, and filmmaker
Nine guitar meditations inspired by mushrooms
sour lemon drone
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant is a 1972 film by Rainer Fassbinder. Miss Von Kant is a fashion designer who lives a solitary life in Bremen and wears a lot of wigs. She drinks too much and treats her housemaid poorly. But her solitary nature is not unlike that of the Sour Lemon Drone.
flower power synth
The Flower Power Synth is a handmade Stepped Tone Generator in a tea tin. The Stepped Tone Generator entered popular lore in the 1980s and was rediscovered in the aughts when it was dubbed the Atari Punk Console. Whatever you call it, it’s a wacky piece of circuitry that can be used with great precision after a bit of practice.