New,Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People

Contents

• 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
• 4. Interview
• 5. Gordon Mumma’s 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. Logics and Rhetorics of Modularity in Electronic Sound
• 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