EST. 2026 — CATALOG No. 1

Bell & Signal

A Small Sound Foundry
Castings in code, for devotion, play, and polite machinery.
33.9192 N / 118.4165 W — EL SEGUNDO, CA
The Foundry Law EIGHT ARTICLES
I
No samples. Every sound is born live, from code, at the moment it is heard.
II
Pink, not white. All chance follows 1/f. Nothing in nature rolls fair dice.
III
Stretched partials. Bells run 2–4% inharmonic, the way real metal does.
IV
The first 50 ms. Identity lives in the attack. Spend the budget there.
V
Pentatonic default. D major pentatonic. No accidental roughness, ever.
VI
Bells are wet, signals are dry. Devotion gets the room. Utility gets none.
VII
The quiet floor. Cues are short, soft, and never stack.
VIII
Silence is a material. Every surface keeps a rest state.
The Castings CLICK TO STRIKE
Installations WHERE THE BELLS HANG
THE CAMPANILEThe pointcast.xyz town bell — Angelus at noon and six, tolls on the wire.PLANNED
PRAYER ALTARSOne bell engine across all eleven stations; each altar a voicing, not a new instrument.RETROFIT
ARCADE KITTap / assent / demur / laurel / setback for the Win95 games and the drum house.PLANNED
THE WIRE STAMPPublishing a block earns one dry tap — the sound of the stamp hitting paper.PLANNED
SPARROWA soft page chime for the reader, blue-hour quiet.SKETCH
PRACTICAL LIFECivic timer bells for the daily-living instruments.SKETCH
All castings CC0 — take them, recast them, hang them in your own tower.
Michael Hoydich — El Segundo, 2026