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Format: 1 online resource (501 pages)

Edition: First edition.

ISBN: 9781040015759 , 1040015751 , 9781003219484 , 1003219489

Content: Modular Synthesis brings together scholars, artists, composers, and musical instrument designers in an exploration of modular synthesis, an unusually multifaceted musical instrument that opens up many avenues for exploration and insight, particularly with respect to technological use, practice, and resistance.

Note: Intro -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Note -- Works Cited -- Preface (All Patched Up: A Material and Discursive History of Modularity and Control Voltages) -- Modularity and Control Voltages in Electronic Sound -- As Experiments -- As Commodities -- As Technical Concepts -- An Industrial History of Control/Power/Signal -- The Relay as an Amplifier of Signals-Thinking -- The Relay as a Trigger for Modularity in the Electronics Industry -- The Vacuum Tube and the Transistor as Amplifiers of Modular Practices in the Electronics Industry -- Computing Hardware as the Material Basis for the Eurorack Format -- From Patch Up to Punch Up: Synth-Ethics or the Stakes of Modular Electronic Sound -- Notes -- References -- 1. The Buchla Music Easel: From Cyberculture to Market Culture -- Introduction -- The Genesis of the Electric Music Box -- Manifesting the Electric Music Box -- The Model 208 Stored Program Sound Source -- From Counterculture to Cyberculture (to Market Culture) -- Buchla in the Analog Revival -- Conclusion: The Easel as Object of Desire -- Notes -- References -- 2. Modular Synthesizers as Conceptual Models -- Introduction -- Heyde's Modular Organology -- Deleuze and Guattari's Thought Synthesizer -- Kittler's Wagnerian Machine -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. A Time-Warped Assemblage as a Musical Instrument: Flexibility and Constauration of Modular Synthesis in Willem Twee Studio 1 -- Willem Twee Studios -- WTS Studio 1 -- Modularity -- Preservation and Interpretative Flexibility -- Instauration, Consolidation, Constauration -- Attachment -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- 4. Interview -- Dani Dobkin on Repairing the Computer Music Center Buchla Instrument and Teaching Modular Synthesis -- Notes -- References. , 5. Gordon Mumma's Sound-Modifier Console -- Preface -- Context -- A Design Emerges -- Circuit Overview and Concepts -- A Balance Modulator (BM) Generates Sidebands -- Balanced Modulation Circuits -- Mumma's Design -- How the MC1545 Does Balanced Modulation and Other Tasks -- Squelch (SQ) -- Tremolo -- Oscillators -- The Twin-Tee Filter -- The Filter Oscillates at One Frequency -- Tuning -- Adding Voltage-Control -- Envelope Follower -- High-Pass Filter -- Voltage-Control, Again -- Afterword -- Note -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- 6. Artist Statement: Switchboard Modulars - Vacant Levels and Intercept Tones -- Escanaba: First Spark of an Idea -- Synthesis of Ideas/Searching for Precedents/First Mentors -- Patchpoint #1: Influential Encounters and Decisions - The End of Naming -- Patchpoint #2: Ambiguous Boundaries/Drum Machines/Names -- Patchpoint #3: Influential Encounters and Decisions - Approaches to Materiality -- Patchpoint #4: The Sandbox -- Patchpoint #5: Playing the Machine -- Patchpoint #6: Overlaps and Portals -- Patchpoint #8: Systems for Encoding Space -- Note -- Reference -- Websites -- 7. Eurorack to VCV Rack: Modular Synthesis as Compositional Performance -- Notes -- List of References -- Text -- Audio -- 8. Strange Play: Parametric Design and Modular Learning -- Introduction -- Distributions of the Sensible: 'Talent Regimes' and the Null Curriculum -- 'Forgotten Basics': Sound Learning from the Inside Out -- From Null Curriculum to Modular Practice -- Conclusion: Parametric Play and Material-Centric Learning -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9. Grid Culture -- Lines as a Gear Culture -- Interfacing the Community -- Discourses and Community -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10. Modular Ecologies -- Breaking Apart in Order to Put Back Together Differently -- Formations -- Modular on the Spot. , The Beirut Synthesizer Center -- We Need Any Kind of Center -- Translation -- Surrender -- View from a Height -- 11. Ourorack: Altered States of Consciousness and Auto-Experimentation with Electronic Sound -- The Palimpsest -- Reminded of What Dreams Sound Like -- Cybernetic Circuits -- Called with Secret Codes and Unutterable Names -- Gateways to Electronic Otherworlds -- Scriptio Inferior -- Notes -- References -- 12. Patching Possibilities: Resisting Normative Logics in Modular Interfaces -- Introduction -- Modular Patching Interfaces -- Mating Connections, Gendering Interaction -- Modularity & -- Cybernetics in Synthesis Systems -- Interfaces & -- Metaphors -- Patching Possibility -- Androgynous Nodes -- littleBits -- Leaky Matrices -- Intermodulations & -- Sympathetic Connections -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 13. Draft/Patch/Weave: Interfacing the Modular Synthesizer with the Floor Loom -- Weaving Basics -- Drafting Patterns in Max/MSP -- Hardware and Software -- Performing Weaving Drafts -- Creative Process -- Reflections -- References -- 14. Composing Autonomy in Thresholds and Fragile States -- Introduction -- Part 1: Thresholds and Fragile States (Reprint) -- Introduction -- Modeling Biological Autonomy through Sound -- Technical Details of the Autonomous Circuits -- Performance Instructions -- References -- Part 2 Measuring Autonomy -- The Chaotic Oscillator -- Modeling the Oscillator -- Coupling between Oscillators -- Computational Experiments -- Experiment 1: Auditory Neotaxis -- Measuring Long-Term Change -- Experiment Design -- Results and Analysis -- Experiment 2: Mapping the Possibility Space -- Experiment Design -- Results and Analysis -- Notes -- References -- 15. Virtual Materiality: Simulated Mediation in the Eurorack Synthesizer Format -- The Make Noise/Soundhack Erbe-Verb: A Meta-Reverb. , ModBap Modular: "Everything Is Vinyl -- Radio Music: A Digital Emulation of Radio Aesthetics -- Aesthetics of Digital and Analog Systems -- Notes -- 16. Interview: Designing Instruments as Designing Problems -- Note -- 17. Interviews with Four Toronto-Based Modular Designers -- Notes -- 18. Interview -- Notes -- 19. Interview -- 20. Interview -- Note -- 21. Modular Synthesis in the Era of Control Societies -- Bibliography -- 22. Randomness, Chaos, and Communication -- Introduction -- History -- Random Methods: Shift Registers -- My Design Process and Between Everything and Nothing -- Teaching -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 23. Interview -- Notes -- 24. From "What If?" To "What Diff?" and Back Again -- Introduction -- Transformation Deltas -- Patch Histories -- From "What if? -- To "What diff? -- And Back Again -- Future Paths -- Note -- References -- 25. Interview: The Mycelia of Does-Nothing Objects -- Index.

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Language: English