Sigma in Kytopia

Modulation  24th of January. Kytopia. Utrecht.

    •    Sigma
    •    The Heisenberg Compensators
    •    Kubus von Kubus



Oudegracht 245, Utrecht, The Netherlands. Doors open at 19:30, end event around 23:00.

Ticketlink and more info to follow via this list, save the date, keep an eye on our facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1661921537396409/

Portable Eurorack case project

I have been searching a compact case for my new Eurorack-modular and now I found this old Sony broadcast videocamera case for just 10€. It needs some refurbishing so that I can fit in it two 6U 104HP eurorack frames. It is not a beauty but 416HP places sound good and it's light. It's also so compact that it should meet the carry-on requirements for major airlines.

Dick Raaijmakers A Monograph

I got a nice pre-christmas precent from my wife; A Monograph of Dick Raaijmakers. It contains 447 pages information of Raaijmakers visual works - theatrical and sculptural pieces. His electronic music compositions are well documented in two CD box sets "The Complete Tape Music of Dick Raaijmakers"/Basta 2006 and "Popular Electronics"/Basta 2004. Raaijmakers oeuvre is an source of wonder and inspiration. He has worked in six or seven different disciplines: electronic music, performances, installations, music theatre, essays and poetry. Raaijmakers didn't regard himself as a composer. His "composing" was more like choosing and collecting things. He just did his Raaijmaker thing!

Electric Love Blueprint

Big names of electronic music mapped out to the circuit board of a Theremin can be found here (http://www.wearedorothy.com/shop/electric-love-blueprint-original-open-edition). Great christmas gift for synthesizer enthustiastics !

Roland SH-101 and Tubbutec

I ordered from Tubbutec (https://tubbutec.de/sh-1oh1/) new brains for my Roland SH-101. The mod is called SH-1oh1 and it replaces the old 80C49 CPU with new one. This adds MIDI and other new features to SH-101. The features I especially like are:

- additional filter LFO and ADSR
- sequencer remembers 32 sequences with 120 steps each
- programmable clock dividers for arpeggiator, sequencer and random LFO

I must next order from Stereoping (http://www.stereoping.com/synth-controller-editions/?lang=en) a nice DIY MIDI-controller for SH-1oh1 modified SH-101. I also ordered a new power-switch and resonance slider-pot from Syntaur (https://syntaur.com/default.asp). I replace all the old trimmers to make the adjustment procedures easier (critical trimmers are now multi turn types).