Irregular Transmissions #5: Seven Fundamental Concepts on Modular Synthesis
News: NEW RELEASE this week
A Journal of Elasticity
by Axel Dörner & Richard Scott
This week I present something a little different: a spontaneous talk on some fundamental ideas which lie behind my personal understanding of Modular Synthesisers and which inform my composition and improvisation approach to these instruments.
Modular as an Instrument,
Modular as an Analogue Computer
Modular as an Interactive Instrument
Modular as an Ensemble
Morphing and Morphology
Modular as a tool for Listening
Modular Performance as a duet
Random notes. My camera is getting repaired and the replacement webcam was sadly not working well, so the image is not properly synced, which might be annoying. So I’d suggest you listen rather than viewing - there is anyway not that much to see.
The EMS Synthi in front of me was not in fact made in 1971, but in 2016 by Robin Wood.
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