Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People [Hardcover]

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.

1. The Buchla Music Easel: From Cyberculture to Market Culture  2. Modular Synthesizers as Conceptual Models  3. A Time-Warped Assemblage as a Musical Instrument: Flexibility and Constauration of Modular Synthesis in Willem Twee Studio 1  4. Interview  5. Gordon Mummas Sound-Modifier Console  6. Artist Statement: Switchboard Modulars  Vacant Levels and Intercept Tones  7. Eurorack to VCV Rack: Modular Synthesis as Compositional Performance  8. Strange Play: Parametric Design and Modular Learning  9. Grid Culture  10. Modular Ecologies  11. Ourorack: Altered States of Consciousness and Auto-Experimentation with Electronic Sound  12. Patching Possibilities: Resisting Normative Logics in Modular Interfaces  13. Draft/Patch/Weave: Interfacing the Modular Synthesizer with the Floor Loom  14. Composing Autonomy in Thresholds and Fragile States  15. Virtual Materiality: Simulated Mediation in the Eurorack Synthesizer Format  16. Interview: Designing Instruments as Designing Problems  17. Interviews with Four Toronto-based Modular Designers  18. Interview  19. Interview  20. Interview  21. Modular Synthesis in the Era of Control Societies  22. Randomness, Chaos, and Communication  23. Interview  24. From What If? To What Diff? and Back Again  25. Interview: The Mycelia of Does-Nothing Objects

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