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1.Session with Dennis de Bel


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Meergranen module - all required parts
Meergranen2
Meergranen module - all parts
soldered together
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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


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Dennis playing around with
a modular synthesizer setup
WorkshopOlli2
Modular synthesizer setup
Kantele
Begena



  • 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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Pile of objects that we brought
to the workshop to make music with
WorkshopOlli5
My improvised "instrument" and
notation for a performance
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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



Field trip to Dutch Modular Fest



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Impression of DMF


DMF2
Impression of DMF


DMF3
Impression of DMF


DMF4
Impression of DMF


DMF5
Impression of DMF


DMF6
Impression of DMF


DMF7
Impression of DMF


DMF8
Impression of DMF




3.Session with Dennis de Bel



  • Talking about possibilities and limitations of Arduino




Helpful/interesting links





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