#modular

Eliad Wagner

I came across Eliad Wagner's solo set at the Goethe-Institut Boston, recorded on January 16, 2026 and presented by Non-Event, and fell into the research hole. Wagner is an…

Ben Vida

Ben Vida is a New York composer and sound artist who came up through Chicago's experimental scene with the group Town & Country. Around 2010 he moved from acoustic…

Reading Making Music with a Modular Synth

Dennis DeSantis's Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers isn't about modular synths, but several chapters fit the way I patch. I'd start with…

Ambient Works #19

Mastered excerpt from Untitled 19, 0:00–0:35.

Ambient Works #14

Mastered excerpt from Untitled 14, 0:00–2:40.

Ambient Works #1

Mastered excerpt from Untitled, 8:00–11:30.

Live Set Prep — Travel Rack

Live set prep with the travel rack.

Untitled 51 — 0-Ctrl / XPO / Multigrain

Two excerpts from a practice session. 0-Ctrl sequencing XPO into Multigrain. Untitled 51, 2:00–4:00. Untitled 51, 7:00–end. 0-Ctrl driving XPO — pitch and pressure from the…

Untitled 44 — Maths / XPO / QPAS

Three takes from a practice session. Maths in bouncing ball mode driving XPO, filtered through QPAS, recorded live into Morphagene, Erbe-Verb for reverb. Ultra-Kick as kick.…

Untitled 39 & 40 — DPO / ModDemix

Two excerpts exploring DPO sine wave crossfading through ModDemix into QPAS and Mimeophon. Untitled 40, 0:00–1:05. Untitled 39, 1:40–2:40. Both oscillators running sine waves…

PoliMaths Practice

Modules: Multimod, Polimaths, Tiny Rise and Fall, DPO, QPAS, QXG, XPO, Spectraphon, Morphagene, Bruxa, Ableton Live + Meld Multimod runs as master clock in Red shape mode. It…

What Contact Improvisation Taught Me About Onkyō

In modular synthesis, it's easy to develop the habit of constantly turning knobs. A sound appears. Adjust something. Another modulation. Another voice. Another effect. But…

Make Noise PoliMATHS

Practice Session - Bouncing Ball

Polimaths drums experiments #1

Multimod provides the clock for Polimaths.

Class with Matthew Ryals

Untitled 28 - master.wav 0:00 / 0:00 Matthew's feedback: play with panning, and think about how to transition it into the Bouncing Ball theme. Micro-improv (Japanese) Onkyō…

Practice session

Practice

We sequenced XPO via Rene 2

Bouncing Ball Practice

Bouncing ball patch on Maths Goes into Ultrakick Its duck goes into Bruxa to filter the audio of DPO Ultrakick also goes into Multimod

Drum Experiment

This reads as a layered percussion experiment rather than a single drum voice. Ultra-Kick suggests a dedicated kick path with envelope, pitch, and decay shaping. Ultra-Perc…