The Dark Interpeter will not always be found sitting inside my dreams, but at times outside, and in open daylight.

The Dark Interpreter is influenced and guided by body capacitance, skin resistance, biological micro-voltages and the fleshy conduction of all signals. These are ways of saying that the Dark Interpreter is completely open. It is not to be considered as a closed and bounded device which is subject to an exterior control "by the body." The Dark Interpreter is an electronic and thus earthy shadow of the body, it is (inside) the body.

The Dark Interpreter is thus not to be controlled. It is an obsidian electronic mirror, the earth and skin itself.

The preliminary working of The Dark Interpreter (reflecting the state of the improviser) should be considered as part of the creation of a unique, skin-sensitive electronic instrument or effects processor. The border between this first stage and the improvisation and playing of the instrument is diffuse, the mirror surface (obsidian) is ill-defined. The Dark Interpreter leads a path for skin, fingers, earth and head.

To define the uses and potential paths of The Dark Interpreter we refer to the five knobs/potentiometers and the finger-board, the gold set of contacts which in the case of Tenebrarum is seperate from the two pronged fangs (for head and earth use).

All three models differ in terms of specific "controls" but general principles of use can be defined referring to the layout of each model below. All models must be played by both fingers and knobs. Of course, once a suitable effect has been divined, the Dark Interpreter will process all incoming audio/generate sound with no handy attention.