Get ready to go deep with modular synths — Deeep deep. On Saturday, October 15, at the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology (SBCAST), Deeepevents presents Deeep Modular, an exploratory ...

It is hard to imagine how the electronics hobby survived without the Internet. You found like-minded people and projects in magazines. And it is even harder to imagine what projects were in the ...

On this week’s episode of Lost Notes, composer and synth wizard Suzanne Ciani tells contributor Michelle Macklem the story of her journey in modular synthesis. Ciani’s story is one of breaking through ...

Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: Modular analog synthesizers are big, expensive, unreliable ...

Zymarium Meadery continues its electronic music-friendly event programming this weekend with a workshop on modular synthesizers. Happening at the RīZōM event space, the workshop will be hosted by ...

The cosmic commandos at Moog Music are bringing back some classic synthesizers from the golden age of electronic music. These aren't just any keyboards, mind you, but three Cadillacs of bleep-bloop, ...

Everyone loves playing music stoned, but the (high) times they are a-changing. No disrespect to Bob Dylan covers strummed on “the quad” or psychedelic arsenals of guitar pedals, but these are ...

Dubbed simply the 16, 170 and 400, these new devices are what Teenage Engineering is proudly calling "the poor man's modular." They're reasonably priced introductions to the complicated and often ...

Lori Napoleon had never considered how early phone calls happened. But years ago, while visiting a lighthouse on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, she saw the town’s century-old telephone exchange. The odd ...

Derrick Estrada’s downtown loft is like the Starship Enterprise for synth nerds. In the living room, shelves and desktops are lined with his collection of modular synthesizers and rare drum machines.

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