XPUB 1 «↔» SPECIAL ISSUE X «↔» LFP

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):

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

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

Several Meergranen
modules connected

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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

Developing and building a simple external trigger using a staple remover, 2 AA bateries, some cables, insulating tape, metal wire (paperclip) and a lightbulb to check battery level
Properly insulate one side of the staple remover and wrap the metal wire around it (must not touch the metal)
When closing the staple remover the wire must touch the other side of it (to closer the circuite and act as a switch)
Cut a patchcable in half and seperate the inner and outer cables from another
Connect wires to the batteries/patchcable/staple remover/(lightbulb is optional) as shown in the drawing

---Circuite diagram (unconventional)