Modular Synthesis
Patching Machines and People
- 500 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People 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.
Through historical, technical, social, aesthetic, and other perspectives, this volume offers a collective reflection on the powerful connections between technology, creativity, culture, and personal agency. Ultimately, this collection is about creativity in a technoscientific world and speaks to issues fundamental to our everyday lives and experiences, by providing insights into the complex relationships between content creators, the technologies they use, and the individuals and communities who design and engage with them.
With chapters covering VCV Rack, modular synthesis, instrument design, and the histories of synthesizer technology, as well as interviews with Dave Rossum, Corry Banks, Meng Qi, and Dani Dobkin, among others, Modular Synthesis is recommended reading for advanced undergraduates, researchers, and practitioners of electronic music and music technology.
Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsements
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Preface (All Patched Up: A Material and Discursive History of Modularity and Control Voltages)
- 1 The Buchla Music Easel From Cyberculture to Market Culture
- 2 Modular Synthesizers as Conceptual Models
- 3 A Time-Warped Assemblage as a Musical InstrumentFlexibility and Constauration of Modular Synthesis in Willem Twee Studio 1
- 4 Interview
- 5 Gordon Mumma's Sound-Modifier Console
- 6 Artist StatementSwitchboard Modulars - Vacant Levels and Intercept Tones
- 7 Eurorack to VCV RackModular Synthesis as Compositional Performance
- 8 Strange PlayParametric Design and Modular Learning
- 9 Grid Culture
- 10 Modular Ecologies
- 11 OurorackAltered States of Consciousness and Auto-Experimentation with Electronic Sound
- 12 Patching PossibilitiesResisting Normative Logics in Modular Interfaces
- 13 Draft/Patch/WeaveInterfacing the Modular Synthesizer with the Floor Loom
- 14 Composing Autonomy in Thresholds and Fragile States
- 15 Virtual MaterialitySimulated Mediation in the Eurorack Synthesizer Format
- 16 InterviewDesigning 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 InterviewThe Mycelia of Does-Nothing Objects
- Index