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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

Segments [from the archives, exactly 5 years ago in the midst of Covid lockdowns, 18 April 2021]

#innsbruck #bondvillains #fortressofsolitude #moogdfam #radiosputnik #drone #industrial #darkwave #modularsystem #eurorackmodular #doomsdaybassoon #modulartechno #doombeats #covidtimes #pandemic #lockdown

Orators [from the archives, 31 March 2021]

#Ichneumonidae #Rhyssapersuasoria #sabrewasp #rhetoric #persuasion #loqueliciteritas #radiosputnik #industrial #batteryacid #modularsystem #blackandwhite #dronescape #basimilusiteritasalter #insects #distortion #comareactor #darkwave #doomsdaybassoon #modulartechno #eurorackmodular #doombeats

Magnets [from the archives 20 Mar 2021]

#gieskes #zachteman #radiosputnik #uvb76 #drone #industrial #modularsystem #blackandwhite #dronescape #hotels #basimilusiteritasalter #distortion #comareactor #darkwave #cinematic #doomsdaybassoon #tapeloop #walkman #mellotron #eurorackmodular #blacklodge

Impend
[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

#esittely #introduction (Scroll down for English)

Johannes Karkia syntyi korona-aikana lopullisen modulaarisyntetisaattorikaninkoloon sukeltamisen seurauksena. Eurorack- ja muilla syntetisaattoreilla tehtyä elektro-tekno-ambient-industrialia tms. Toinen puolisko Karkia Walo -runomusiikkiduosta @aikako kanssa. Mastodoniin tilin tekeminen lienee yritys lähteä vapauttamaan tätäkin projektia paskoontuneiden kaupallisten alustojen ikeen alta.

Johannes Karkia was born during the lockdowns as a result of diving down the modular synth rabbit hole. Elecro/techno/ambient/industrial made on eurorack modular synthesizers. Also half of the Karkia Walo poetry music duo with @aikako. Coming here is an attempt to start freeing this project from under the yoke of enshittified commercial platforms.

#modularsynth #eurorackmodular #electronicmusic #poetrymusic #audiovisualart 

Hopefully repairing this Doepfer PLL module with a new OpAmp, since that's most likely the thing broken, but we'll see. The two logic chips are bigger and I don't have any of them, but I do have some spare NE5532P opamps.

#SynthDIY #Doepfer #EurorackModular

Here's the manual page for the Sol, a lot of the site redirects to the front now.

https://sol.wntr.dev

#Winterbloom #EurorackModular

Took some juggling but I got them going together. Success! The G&T gate-to-trigger is sandwiched between the Doepfer A160-2 Clock Div II and the Nonlinear Circuits Poultry in Motion PT2933 delay with integrated divider that can be synched to the delay steps.

#modularsynth #synthdiy #eurorackmodular #Doepfer #NonlinearCircuits

Picked up two used clock dividers at Perfect Circuit so I'll be tetrising a spot for them today.

I really want the large delay / divider in the big rack but the space I have is 8hp, not 10.

My Rotating Clock Divider died and I will try to fix it, but I have momentum on other makes that I need to finish first!

#modularsynth #synthdiy #eurorackmodular #Doepfer #NonlinearCircuits

New arrangement. Both Pulses and Voltages working off the Benjolin2. Success!!

#Benjolin #MusicThingModular #EurorackModular #ModularSynth #AfterLaterAudio

Open heart surgery on the ArtBox synth welcoming the new Benjolin 2 - seen here connected to a Pulses!

#Benjolin #EurorackModular #ModularSynth #AfterLaterAudio #MusicThingModular

It's Release Day for 'Lost in Some Stream of Time'!!

https://johnreidarholmes.bandcamp.com/album/lost-in-some-stream-of-time

Thank you for listening,
JRH
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#ambientmusic #eurorack #eurorackmodular #instrumental #ambientguitar #tonguedrum #lofimusic #zen #meditation #chillout #relax #diymusician #albumrelease #OutToday

Got a used Doepfer A160-1 Clock Div and A145-4 Quad slimline LFO. Although I have a full-up power bus in the all-Doepfer 104hp modular boat, I have 4hp leftover.

Each LFO on the A145-4 has a frequency range jumper on the back, so I'm thinking an over-designed passive switcher for each. I could line up four Mini Taiwai toggles directly next to each LFO frequency knob.

And maybe I'll overdo the module with a passive vactrol LPG. Because of course I should.

#SynthDIY #Doepfer #ModularSynth #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

Latest build available on my Reverb page!

The Hypster from NLC, a hyper chaos module with random cycles ranging from 5 minutes to audio rates (crazy, I know!)

Honestly tempted to keep this one for myself! It's like a Triple Sloth with more direct control over the cycle of length and shape.

#eurorack #eurorackmodular #forsale #synths #nonlinearcircuits

https://reverb.com/shop/be-kind-make-music

Trying to get back on track with my #PatchOfTheWeek series, so here's patch No. 21, where I play with the notion of what "stereo" means in the context of #Morphagene. Plus a bonus appearance by the #Panharmonium, in the process of making that Morphagene reel. Hope you enjoy it, find some new knowledge, or both.

https://www.etherdiver.com/2023/05/31/patch-21-what-is-stereo-anyway-a-morphagene-patch/

#EurorackModular #ModularSynth #patching

Trying to get back on track with my #PatchOfTheWeek series, so here's patch No. 21, where I play with the notion of what "stereo" means in the context of #Morphagene. Plus a bonus appearance by the #Panharmonium, in the process of making that Morphagene reel. Hope you enjoy it, find some new knowledge, or both.

https://www.etherdiver.com/2023/05/31/patch-21-what-is-stereo-anyway-a-morphagene-patch/

#EurorackModular #ModularSynth #patching

Trying to get back on track with my #PatchOfTheWeek series, so here's patch No. 21, where I play with the notion of what "stereo" means in the context of #Morphagene. Plus a bonus appearance by the #Panharmonium, in the process of making that Morphagene reel. Hope you enjoy it, find some new knowledge, or both.

https://www.etherdiver.com/2023/05/31/patch-21-what-is-stereo-anyway-a-morphagene-patch/

#EurorackModular #ModularSynth #patching

Trying to get back on track with my #PatchOfTheWeek series, so here's patch No. 21, where I play with the notion of what "stereo" means in the context of #Morphagene. Plus a bonus appearance by the #Panharmonium, in the process of making that Morphagene reel. Hope you enjoy it, find some new knowledge, or both.

https://www.etherdiver.com/2023/05/31/patch-21-what-is-stereo-anyway-a-morphagene-patch/

#EurorackModular #ModularSynth #patching

Trying to get back on track with my #PatchOfTheWeek series, so here's patch No. 21, where I play with the notion of what "stereo" means in the context of #Morphagene. Plus a bonus appearance by the #Panharmonium, in the process of making that Morphagene reel. Hope you enjoy it, find some new knowledge, or both.

https://www.etherdiver.com/2023/05/31/patch-21-what-is-stereo-anyway-a-morphagene-patch/

#EurorackModular #ModularSynth #patching

More low-mids with this one. I love that the patch sounds subtly different each time.
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#doepfer #nonlinearcircuits #dronemusic #drone #eurorackmodular #eurorack #modularsynth #modular #experimentalmusic #receptiondublin

Up late and craving some of that sweet, sweet #modular content? I just posted my latest #PatchOfTheWeek so have at it! This week, we explore the way a modular patch can grow beyond the confines of what you plan for it

https://www.etherdiver.com/2023/03/25/patch-12-gardening-not-architecture/

#EtherDiver #ModularSynth #EurorackModular

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