User:Max Lehmann/Special Issue X

XPUB 1 «↔» SPECIAL ISSUE X «↔» LFP

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1.Session with Dennis de Bel

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

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

Pile of objects that we brought
to the workshop to make music with

My improvised "instrument" and
notation for a performance

Recording of performances

• Everybody brings in 3-4 random objects that one can make sound with
• Choose objects and experiment with making:
• ..the most quite sound possible
• ..the longest sound possible
• ..shortest sound possible
• ..a sound that involves a change in pitch
• ..a sound that involves a change in timbre
• Choose objects and create sounds that match the categories created yesterday
• Create a composition / performance and write down notation
• Perform while being recorded
• Jam in groups while being recorded
• Talking about language (Phoneme, toneme, chroneme -> see interesting links)
• Speech to song instrument: recording speech - looping a part of it and listening to the melody
• Add recording from earlier and make a quick song
• Course feedback

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Field trip to Dutch Modular Fest

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3.Session with Dennis de Bel

• Talking about possibilities and limitations of Arduino
• Introduction to Arduino coding
• Playing around with the Meergranen
• Connecting several Meergranen modules and modulating them with oneanother

Several Meergranen
modules connected

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4.Session with Dennis de Bel

• Recap on how to use the Git (with Aymeric)
• Synthesis Basics (additive synth., substractive synth., FM synth., granular synth., wavetable synth., ...)
• Making a simple Kick with Arduino
• Going to meet again on Fr, 11.10 to deepen understanding of Arduino code and check the modules (see pad xpub1temp2)

Kick on osciloscope

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Helpful/interesting links

• Audio glossary
• Another audio glossary
• 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
• Phonemes, tonemes, chronemes
• Foley (filmmaking)
• ASMR
• Harmonized Habanero (funny)
• Circuit design app
• Ciat Lonbarde
• Marloes van Son
• Photoresistor

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Watchlist

• I Dream of Wires - Documentary on the history of synthesizers by director Robert Fantinatto
• Youtube playlist with (sometimes random) videos I collect concerning "Synthesizer/Electronics/DIY"
• Youtube playlist with videos I collect concerning "Interface/UX/Design"
• Youtube playlist with videos I collect concerning "Coding"

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Pads

• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/lfp1
• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/olliworkshop
• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/xpub1temp2
• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/olliworkshop2
• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/conceptual
• https://pad.xpub.nl/p/modules