Braindrop

A musician and close friend who goes by the name Braindrop reached out to me and said it had been 7ish years since he did a PC upgrade and it was time to build a new one. He asked if I wanted to do the build and told me I could do whatever I wanted creatively, and he wanted it to be a surprise. So we sat down and talked through the specs that would satisfy his needs for audio and video production, as well as gaming and near the end of that chat he said screw it, go all out, load it to the max and let’s do it.

Braindrop himself is an artist with talents that extend beyond music. He’s a glass blower, chef, cheese maker, woodworker, miniature airbrush painter, electronics wizard, computer science junkie, security nerd and all around creative guy. His house is a life story that could be written in a manner where you couldn’t put the book down until it’s done, every wall and every room in his house is a story by itself and I was honored to be part of it. His main room where he spends most of his time is his music / computer room. It looks like something out of a production studio with mixer panels, euro kits, keyboards, guitars, you name it. It’s absolutely wild with equipment going as far back as the mid 1900s through modern day technology, all tightly integrated together and controlled by one main area on his desk. I knew I had to push myself to do something really special to fit his life, his personality, and his passions and that the design had to be a tightly integrated mix of our history together as friends while touching on his primary use of the machine.

As you can see the legs of this case are music notes, and the theme is gold and black tied to the Asus ProArt series which this motherboard is based on. The distribution block is a sine wave going into a brain, which has droplets that then become beautiful music, ala Braindrop.