Modular Synthesis
Patching Machines and People
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Focal Press
- Date of Publication 24 April 2024
- ISBN 9781032113463
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages500 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 774 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 46 Illustrations, black & white; 22 Halftones, black & white; 24 Line drawings, black & white; 3 Tables, black & white 581
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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.
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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.
"Just when everyone thought digital had evolved into music?s alpha species, modular analog synthesizers resurged after decades of dormancy. Modular Synthesis provides a valuable overview of how and why the technology that redefined the musical instrument in the 1960s became relevant and transformative again."
Nicolas Collins, composer and author of Handmade Electronic Music ? The Art of Hardware Hacking
"It?s no accident that the first academic collection on modular synthesizers touches on so many disciplines. Across its pages you will hear from musicians, artists, makers, and scholars from across the arts and human sciences. How many books on music discuss looms, switchboards, and electric fish? How many books on philosophy examine the material metaphors on which philosophers? ideas are based? How many books on electronics include studies of education or the gendered politics of naming? Modular Synthesis is as varied, multidisciplinary, and enchanting as its object of study."
Jonathan Sterne, author of Diminished Faculties, MP3, and The Audible Past
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Table of 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 1 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. 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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