#eurorackmodular — Public Fediverse posts

Controls [from the archives, 9 May 2021]. Originally performed and recorded for the Modular World 1st anniversary show (8-9 May 2021) which was a massive livestream event of 33+ hrs during the pandemic lockdowns.

During the lockdown years, Modular World became one example of a fairly niche thing gathering people together worldwide to make experimental art online - when it was not possible to organize the usual small local performances - to create something positive and reach more people than they ever could individually. As the pandemic finally, thankfully, subsided, however, it seems that people went back to the enclosed local communities, and these types of global online communities lost their drive. 

Also the rapidly accelerating #enshittification cycle of the past few years has buried the visibility of these kinds of communities from all major social media platforms. Of course, as Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) has been pointing out for years, the enshittification of these platforms started much earlier. But somehow amid the pandemic, this niche scene still seemed to flourish, and it was only after Silicon Valley lined up to kiss the ring that the aggressive changes to the algorithms really seemed to change things. 

Maybe this is correlation more than causation, but as activity at such niche scenes is often also created by fairly principled DIY-oriented people, it seems that many (myself included) have struggled with justifying why we keep feeding these platforms. This disillusionment is further exacerbated by the rise of the AI-slopmachine that will rip off all the non-commercial work from these platforms just like everything else. Online activity that gathers enough momentum to actually keep things active has in these types of niche scenes been very much dependent on instagram and youtube. Over the past few years, the visibility of this type on stuff that doesn’t try to optimise for the alorithm has plummeted. 

Perhaps all of this has resulted in events such as the Modular World shows reaching fewer and fewer people. As wonderful as the promise of #Fediverse is, so far it seems that we’re very far from reaching the critical mass where it would actually start reaching new people. If the utopian enclave remains enclosed, it eventually dwindles away.

But we can try! I’m posting these weird little Johannes Karkia mini music videos and performances here bit by bit. It’s a transfer of archive, posted on insta & youtube over th years, and also new work now & then. 

But also Modular World does still exist! Go check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/07ErB3AjlAo?is=qr9q2pXlhWm7Hie2 (Full performance of this piece, and interview with MW’s Johno Wells there on the Modular World youtube channel and on the Johannes Karkia youtube channel [link in the bio above], audio track also on Bandcamp).

#enshittification #fediverse #modularsynth #modularworld #anniversary #liveshow #electronicmusic #modulartechno #covid19 #pandemic #darkwave #eurorackmodular #community #surveillancecapitalism #platformcapitalism #algorithm #bigtech #siliconvalley #kissthering #socialmedia #utopianenclave #utopianism

Controls [from the archives, 9 May 2021]. Originally performed and recorded for the Modular World 1st anniversary show (8-9 May 2021) which was a massive livestream event of 33+ hrs during the pandemic lockdowns.

During the lockdown years, Modular World became one example of a fairly niche thing gathering people together worldwide to make experimental art online - when it was not possible to organize the usual small local performances - to create something positive and reach more people than they ever could individually. As the pandemic finally, thankfully, subsided, however, it seems that people went back to the enclosed local communities, and these types of global online communities lost their drive. 

Also the rapidly accelerating #enshittification cycle of the past few years has buried the visibility of these kinds of communities from all major social media platforms. Of course, as Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) has been pointing out for years, the enshittification of these platforms started much earlier. But somehow amid the pandemic, this niche scene still seemed to flourish, and it was only after Silicon Valley lined up to kiss the ring that the aggressive changes to the algorithms really seemed to change things. 

Maybe this is correlation more than causation, but as activity at such niche scenes is often also created by fairly principled DIY-oriented people, it seems that many (myself included) have struggled with justifying why we keep feeding these platforms. This disillusionment is further exacerbated by the rise of the AI-slopmachine that will rip off all the non-commercial work from these platforms just like everything else. Online activity that gathers enough momentum to actually keep things active has in these types of niche scenes been very much dependent on instagram and youtube. Over the past few years, the visibility of this type on stuff that doesn’t try to optimise for the alorithm has plummeted. 

Perhaps all of this has resulted in events such as the Modular World shows reaching fewer and fewer people. As wonderful as the promise of #Fediverse is, so far it seems that we’re very far from reaching the critical mass where it would actually start reaching new people. If the utopian enclave remains enclosed, it eventually dwindles away.

But we can try! I’m posting these weird little Johannes Karkia mini music videos and performances here bit by bit. It’s a transfer of archive, posted on insta & youtube over th years, and also new work now & then. 

But also Modular World does still exist! Go check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/07ErB3AjlAo?is=qr9q2pXlhWm7Hie2 (Full performance of this piece, and interview with MW’s Johno Wells there on the Modular World youtube channel and on the Johannes Karkia youtube channel [link in the bio above], audio track also on Bandcamp).

#enshittification #fediverse #modularsynth #modularworld #anniversary #liveshow #electronicmusic #modulartechno #covid19 #pandemic #darkwave #eurorackmodular #community #surveillancecapitalism #platformcapitalism #algorithm #bigtech #siliconvalley #kissthering #socialmedia #utopianenclave #utopianism

Controls [from the archives, 9 May 2021]. Originally performed and recorded for the Modular World 1st anniversary show (8-9 May 2021) which was a massive livestream event of 33+ hrs during the pandemic lockdowns.

During the lockdown years, Modular World became one example of a fairly niche thing gathering people together worldwide to make experimental art online - when it was not possible to organize the usual small local performances - to create something positive and reach more people than they ever could individually. As the pandemic finally, thankfully, subsided, however, it seems that people went back to the enclosed local communities, and these types of global online communities lost their drive. 

Also the rapidly accelerating #enshittification cycle of the past few years has buried the visibility of these kinds of communities from all major social media platforms. Of course, as Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) has been pointing out for years, the enshittification of these platforms started much earlier. But somehow amid the pandemic, this niche scene still seemed to flourish, and it was only after Silicon Valley lined up to kiss the ring that the aggressive changes to the algorithms really seemed to change things. 

Maybe this is correlation more than causation, but as activity at such niche scenes is often also created by fairly principled DIY-oriented people, it seems that many (myself included) have struggled with justifying why we keep feeding these platforms. This disillusionment is further exacerbated by the rise of the AI-slopmachine that will rip off all the non-commercial work from these platforms just like everything else. Online activity that gathers enough momentum to actually keep things active has in these types of niche scenes been very much dependent on instagram and youtube. Over the past few years, the visibility of this type on stuff that doesn’t try to optimise for the alorithm has plummeted. 

Perhaps all of this has resulted in events such as the Modular World shows reaching fewer and fewer people. As wonderful as the promise of #Fediverse is, so far it seems that we’re very far from reaching the critical mass where it would actually start reaching new people. If the utopian enclave remains enclosed, it eventually dwindles away.

But we can try! I’m posting these weird little Johannes Karkia mini music videos and performances here bit by bit. It’s a transfer of archive, posted on insta & youtube over th years, and also new work now & then. 

But also Modular World does still exist! Go check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/07ErB3AjlAo?is=qr9q2pXlhWm7Hie2 (Full performance of this piece, and interview with MW’s Johno Wells there on the Modular World youtube channel and on the Johannes Karkia youtube channel [link in the bio above], audio track also on Bandcamp).

#enshittification #fediverse #modularsynth #modularworld #anniversary #liveshow #electronicmusic #modulartechno #covid19 #pandemic #darkwave #eurorackmodular #community #surveillancecapitalism #platformcapitalism #algorithm #bigtech #siliconvalley #kissthering #socialmedia #utopianenclave #utopianism

Controls [from the archives, 9 May 2021]. Originally performed and recorded for the Modular World 1st anniversary show (8-9 May 2021) which was a massive livestream event of 33+ hrs during the pandemic lockdowns.

During the lockdown years, Modular World became one example of a fairly niche thing gathering people together worldwide to make experimental art online - when it was not possible to organize the usual small local performances - to create something positive and reach more people than they ever could individually. As the pandemic finally, thankfully, subsided, however, it seems that people went back to the enclosed local communities, and these types of global online communities lost their drive. 

Also the rapidly accelerating #enshittification cycle of the past few years has buried the visibility of these kinds of communities from all major social media platforms. Of course, as Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) has been pointing out for years, the enshittification of these platforms started much earlier. But somehow amid the pandemic, this niche scene still seemed to flourish, and it was only after Silicon Valley lined up to kiss the ring that the aggressive changes to the algorithms really seemed to change things. 

Maybe this is correlation more than causation, but as activity at such niche scenes is often also created by fairly principled DIY-oriented people, it seems that many (myself included) have struggled with justifying why we keep feeding these platforms. This disillusionment is further exacerbated by the rise of the AI-slopmachine that will rip off all the non-commercial work from these platforms just like everything else. Online activity that gathers enough momentum to actually keep things active has in these types of niche scenes been very much dependent on instagram and youtube. Over the past few years, the visibility of this type on stuff that doesn’t try to optimise for the alorithm has plummeted. 

Perhaps all of this has resulted in events such as the Modular World shows reaching fewer and fewer people. As wonderful as the promise of #Fediverse is, so far it seems that we’re very far from reaching the critical mass where it would actually start reaching new people. If the utopian enclave remains enclosed, it eventually dwindles away.

But we can try! I’m posting these weird little Johannes Karkia mini music videos and performances here bit by bit. It’s a transfer of archive, posted on insta & youtube over th years, and also new work now & then. 

But also Modular World does still exist! Go check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/07ErB3AjlAo?is=qr9q2pXlhWm7Hie2 (Full performance of this piece, and interview with MW’s Johno Wells there on the Modular World youtube channel and on the Johannes Karkia youtube channel [link in the bio above], audio track also on Bandcamp).

#enshittification #fediverse #modularsynth #modularworld #anniversary #liveshow #electronicmusic #modulartechno #covid19 #pandemic #darkwave #eurorackmodular #community #surveillancecapitalism #platformcapitalism #algorithm #bigtech #siliconvalley #kissthering #socialmedia #utopianenclave #utopianism

Controls [from the archives, 9 May 2021]. Originally performed and recorded for the Modular World 1st anniversary show (8-9 May 2021) which was a massive livestream event of 33+ hrs during the pandemic lockdowns.

During the lockdown years, Modular World became one example of a fairly niche thing gathering people together worldwide to make experimental art online - when it was not possible to organize the usual small local performances - to create something positive and reach more people than they ever could individually. As the pandemic finally, thankfully, subsided, however, it seems that people went back to the enclosed local communities, and these types of global online communities lost their drive. 

Also the rapidly accelerating #enshittification cycle of the past few years has buried the visibility of these kinds of communities from all major social media platforms. Of course, as Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) has been pointing out for years, the enshittification of these platforms started much earlier. But somehow amid the pandemic, this niche scene still seemed to flourish, and it was only after Silicon Valley lined up to kiss the ring that the aggressive changes to the algorithms really seemed to change things. 

Maybe this is correlation more than causation, but as activity at such niche scenes is often also created by fairly principled DIY-oriented people, it seems that many (myself included) have struggled with justifying why we keep feeding these platforms. This disillusionment is further exacerbated by the rise of the AI-slopmachine that will rip off all the non-commercial work from these platforms just like everything else. Online activity that gathers enough momentum to actually keep things active has in these types of niche scenes been very much dependent on instagram and youtube. Over the past few years, the visibility of this type on stuff that doesn’t try to optimise for the alorithm has plummeted. 

Perhaps all of this has resulted in events such as the Modular World shows reaching fewer and fewer people. As wonderful as the promise of #Fediverse is, so far it seems that we’re very far from reaching the critical mass where it would actually start reaching new people. If the utopian enclave remains enclosed, it eventually dwindles away.

But we can try! I’m posting these weird little Johannes Karkia mini music videos and performances here bit by bit. It’s a transfer of archive, posted on insta & youtube over th years, and also new work now & then. 

But also Modular World does still exist! Go check out their channel: https://www.youtube.com/live/07ErB3AjlAo?is=qr9q2pXlhWm7Hie2 (Full performance of this piece, and interview with MW’s Johno Wells there on the Modular World youtube channel and on the Johannes Karkia youtube channel [link in the bio above], audio track also on Bandcamp).

#enshittification #fediverse #modularsynth #modularworld #anniversary #liveshow #electronicmusic #modulartechno #covid19 #pandemic #darkwave #eurorackmodular #community #surveillancecapitalism #platformcapitalism #algorithm #bigtech #siliconvalley #kissthering #socialmedia #utopianenclave #utopianism

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[from the archives, 21 Jan 2021] #modularsynth #eurorackmodular #industrial #electronicmusic #noiseengineering #springreverb #video #losthighway #techno #dco #archive

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[from the archives, 21 Jan 2021] #modularsynth #eurorackmodular #industrial #electronicmusic #noiseengineering #springreverb #video #losthighway #techno #dco #archive

Mon nouveau transducteur de données astronomiques est physiquement prêt. Encore un brin de programmation et je serai prêt pour de nouvelles performances de correspondance avec l’outre-espace 🪐

#modular #eurorack #eurorackmodular #dataart #myinnerouterspace

Built a FM drum by Moritz Klein / Erika Synths today.

Really good kit and I just messed up one resistor on the way. Surprisingly it worked on the first try.

Sounds fits perfectly in my exotic drum rack concept. Solid, well tunable bass drums and lots of percussion material, ideal to fill up some gaps I had.

Might do a short vid on this.

#musodon #diysynths #synthesizer #eurorackmodular

Built a FM drum by Moritz Klein / Erika Synths today.

Really good kit and I just messed up one resistor on the way. Surprisingly it worked on the first try.

Sounds fits perfectly in my exotic drum rack concept. Solid, well tunable bass drums and lots of percussion material, ideal to fill up some gaps I had.

Might do a short vid on this.

#musodon #diysynths #synthesizer #eurorackmodular

My thoughts on “Travelling heavy” to Northern Ireland. This week’s Yorke Talk has hit your inboxes 💖

read, enjoy, sign up, forward to a friend 🙏

#eurorack #modularsynthesis #eurorackmodular

eepurl.com/iE7SdY

My thoughts on “Travelling heavy” to Northern Ireland. This week’s Yorke Talk has hit your inboxes 💖

read, enjoy, sign up, forward to a friend 🙏

#eurorack #modularsynthesis #eurorackmodular

eepurl.com/iE7SdY

It's a couple days late, but my #PatchOfTheWeek is finally out (it's technically last week's, and there will hopefully be another this week...). This time, I try to recreate a #Strega in #modular. It kinda works! Kinda.

https://www.etherdiver.com/2023/03/21/patch-11-roll-your-own-strega/

#ModularSynth #ModularPatch #ModularSynthesizer #ModularSynthesis #EurorackModular

Week 9 patch is up at EtherDiver.com! This week we delve into my method of drum synthesis/sampling, using the Noise Engineering Tymp Legio

https://www.etherdiver.com/2023/03/03/patch-9-drum-design-part-1/

#PatchOfTheWeek #ModularSynth #SoundDesign #DrumDesign #NoiseEngineering #Tymp Legio #EurorackModular #ModularSynthesis #ModularSynthesizer

I'm currently listening to the final #patch for this week's #PatchAWeek entry, which is also the basis for my first #RPMChallenge piece this year, and goddamn is it sounding SWEET. Eager to get this out tomorrow and jam on it for a while to get my final performance for the #RPMAlbum out of it.

#ModularSynth #ModularMusic #ModularSynthesizer #EurorackModular #Eurorack #PatchOfTheWeek

I'm currently listening to the final #patch for this week's #PatchAWeek entry, which is also the basis for my first #RPMChallenge piece this year, and goddamn is it sounding SWEET. Eager to get this out tomorrow and jam on it for a while to get my final performance for the #RPMAlbum out of it.

#ModularSynth #ModularMusic #ModularSynthesizer #EurorackModular #Eurorack #PatchOfTheWeek

I'm currently listening to the final #patch for this week's #PatchAWeek entry, which is also the basis for my first #RPMChallenge piece this year, and goddamn is it sounding SWEET. Eager to get this out tomorrow and jam on it for a while to get my final performance for the #RPMAlbum out of it.

#ModularSynth #ModularMusic #ModularSynthesizer #EurorackModular #Eurorack #PatchOfTheWeek

I'm currently listening to the final #patch for this week's #PatchAWeek entry, which is also the basis for my first #RPMChallenge piece this year, and goddamn is it sounding SWEET. Eager to get this out tomorrow and jam on it for a while to get my final performance for the #RPMAlbum out of it.

#ModularSynth #ModularMusic #ModularSynthesizer #EurorackModular #Eurorack #PatchOfTheWeek

If you're interested in #modular #synths I invite you to follow along with my year-long patch-a-week project. Each week I'm building a patch in my modular synthesizer, starting with some pretty simple stuff and getting into the weeds and the weirds of modular #synthesis. Here's the place you'll be able to find them all; there's more than a dozen up to get you going!

https://www.etherdiver.com/category/patch-a-week/

#patchoftheweek #EtherDiver #modularsynth #modularpatching #modularmusic #eurorack #eurorackmodular

If you're interested in #modular #synths I invite you to follow along with my year-long patch-a-week project. Each week I'm building a patch in my modular synthesizer, starting with some pretty simple stuff and getting into the weeds and the weirds of modular #synthesis. Here's the place you'll be able to find them all; there's more than a dozen up to get you going!

https://www.etherdiver.com/category/patch-a-week/

#patchoftheweek #EtherDiver #modularsynth #modularpatching #modularmusic #eurorack #eurorackmodular

If you're interested in #modular #synths I invite you to follow along with my year-long patch-a-week project. Each week I'm building a patch in my modular synthesizer, starting with some pretty simple stuff and getting into the weeds and the weirds of modular #synthesis. Here's the place you'll be able to find them all; there's more than a dozen up to get you going!

https://www.etherdiver.com/category/patch-a-week/

#patchoftheweek #EtherDiver #modularsynth #modularpatching #modularmusic #eurorack #eurorackmodular

If you're interested in #modular #synths I invite you to follow along with my year-long patch-a-week project. Each week I'm building a patch in my modular synthesizer, starting with some pretty simple stuff and getting into the weeds and the weirds of modular #synthesis. Here's the place you'll be able to find them all; there's more than a dozen up to get you going!

https://www.etherdiver.com/category/patch-a-week/

#patchoftheweek #EtherDiver #modularsynth #modularpatching #modularmusic #eurorack #eurorackmodular

If you're interested in #modular #synths I invite you to follow along with my year-long patch-a-week project. Each week I'm building a patch in my modular synthesizer, starting with some pretty simple stuff and getting into the weeds and the weirds of modular #synthesis. Here's the place you'll be able to find them all; there's more than a dozen up to get you going!

https://www.etherdiver.com/category/patch-a-week/

#patchoftheweek #EtherDiver #modularsynth #modularpatching #modularmusic #eurorack #eurorackmodular

First jam on the new -to me- Echophon.

Full video with patch notes is on youtube or odysee
https://youtu.be/wET3W2n57MA
https://odysee.com/@betom:6/modularjam3:2

#eurorack #eurorackmodular #euroracksynth #modularsynth #modularsynthesizer #electronicmusic #doepfer #bloom #disting #pamelanewworkout #rampage #waspfilter #kinks #makenoise #echophon