User:Max Lehmann/Special Issue X

XPUB 1 «↔» SPECIAL ISSUE X «↔» LFP

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1.Session with Dennis de Bel

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Meergranen module - all required parts

Meergranen module - all parts
soldered together

Meergranen module with custom
lasercut frontpanel

• Intro into modular synthesis: (exists in both, analogue and digital form) Several modules, that are not hardwired totgether. Each module does (not allways) one task only - but does that very good. In-, outputs allow to interface several modules.
• Soldering / testing of the "Meergranen" module.
• Flashing different presets with onto the Arduino
• Designing and lasercutting the first custom frontpanel

Custom sample selection (to be continued):

• File:Klebeband.mp3
• File:Caligo.mp3

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2.Session with Olli Aarni at De Player

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Dennis playing around with
a modular synthesizer setup

Modular synthesizer setup

• Listening sessions with the purpose of learning how to talk about sound
• Hunting interesting sounds and writing a description of them
• Inventing a new word to describe the sound: "knüsprichtlic" (engl.: "crunchdenseyficial")
• learning musical vocabulary (pitch, frequency, timbre, overtone, metrics,...)
• Exercise: sorting given abstract soundfiles into categories and naming them

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Helpful/interesting links

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• Vocabulary to describe sound
• more vocab for sound
• what is timbre?
• a arduino based effect pedal...
• ...and the git for the arduino based effect pedal
• Speech to Song Illusion

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Watchlist

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• I Dream of Wires - Documentary on the history of synthesizers by director Robert Fantinatto
• Youtube playlist with (sometimes random) helpful videos I collect

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Pads

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• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/lfp1
• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/olliworkshop