{"id":238,"date":"2020-11-05T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrunderwood.co.uk\/dev\/?p=238"},"modified":"2020-11-22T17:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T17:25:30","slug":"ams-aemz-acoustic-modular-synth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/ams-aemz-acoustic-modular-synth\/","title":{"rendered":"ams [\u00e6mz] &#8211; acoustic modular synth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been working on an acoustic modular synth system for a while now. It fits a modular rack standard (not Eurorack &#8211; bigger for now) and is controlled via CV\/Gate but all the sound production and manipulation is acoustic.  It was originally commissioned by record label <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/state51.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The State 51 Conspiracy<\/a> but has since significantly surpassed the original commission in every sense &#8211; scope, deadline, budget etc. They have let it and so have I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the commission is to record an album. I am pleased to say the music is finally starting to creep closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has also been consumed by my PhD, as it fits really snugly into my area of study. There is significant scope for in-depth development of various acoustic systems and for the re-exploration of historical musical instruments and sound production techniques, in a new context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I have made a significant change to the spec. Where I had planned that each module would have a mic and audio output, I have since decided it should produce sound entirely acoustically&#8230;at least for now. This throws up many fascinating challenges, such as, how to get a balanced sound acoustically, how to produce any significant bass at such a small scale, how to deal with machine noise vs module signal etc. These are all challenges and constraints I have faced previously, with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mammothbeatorgan.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mammoth Beat Organ<\/a>, where we decided to allow the relative amplitude of each module dictate the flow of our performances. A feature not a bug!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working on an acoustic modular synth system for a while now. It fits a modular rack standard (not Eurorack &#8211; bigger for now) and is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrunderwood.co.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}