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Just restocked additional copies of dark and light cover editions of Open Source 02 at Mission Synths @missionsynths and Control Brooklyn/NYC @ctrlmod OS02 is also on sale at Anno Domini @annodominigallery in San Jose, Perfect Circuit @perfect_circuit in Burbank/LA and Control Voltage @controlvoltage in Portland. Visit opsrc.co for more info. Had a great time meeting everyone at the fantastic Buchla & Friends event in downtown LA. Really inspiring to talk face-to-face with artists, musicians and intrigued readers. Thanks to Eric and Peter at Buchla for hosting and to Juan Manuel Escalante for joining and contributing artwork for our booth. Always nice to see old friends and colleagues. #missionsynths #perfectcircuit #controlvoltage #roberthenke #nonotak

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December pop-ups ❄️ @ctrlmod @seventhheaven.bar @honeysbrooklyn

I know many have been waiting for the VENO ORBIT from @venusinstruments to release and it's turned into a huge powerhouse of audio & CV sampling and looping. I've never had the chance to work with CV in this way before and the audio side is endless in possibilities too but fun and simple due to no menus and a control per function. Check out the full demo to see how you can play and record - on the fly - keeping musicality and creativity at the forefront without the steep learning curve. Full demo on the @divkidvideo YouTube channel. The Veno Orbit is out today with stock at @foundsound_ @ctrlmod @filtermusikk.no @nightlife_electronics @schneiderskeller @schneidersladen @signal_sounds @boutiquepedalnyc @house_of_sound_switzerland @noisebug & @synthshop_no #eurorack #euroracksynth #eurorackmodular #modular #modularsynth #synth #synthesizer #veno #orbit #venus #instruments #music #electronic #electronics #electronicmusic #ambient #looper #looping #loop #sounddesign #musictech #beatmaing #musicproduction #musicmaking

After five long years, the follow up to Open Source is finally in stores today! Open Source 02 is a 112 page hardcover book that would not exist without the contributions of a myriad of writers, musicians, installation artists, synth designers, filmmakers, illustrators, painters, printing experts, graphic designers and technicians. It has been a collaboration that spans the globe from Spain, Germany & France to Australia, Korea and Mexico. Check out the new website at opsrc.co for a lot more details on the content, collaborators and artwork featured in the book. Open Source 02 is now available at: Control in Brooklyn/New York @ctrlmod Mission Synths in SF, CA @missionsynths Perfect Circuit in Burbank/LA @perfect_circuit Control Voltage in Portland, OR @controlvoltage Initial quantities will be very limited. Please call the shops ahead of time to see if they are still carrying any copies in stock. If they are out, please express your interest. A wider release is being planned toward the end of the year around the holidays. The ubiquitously named Open Source project was born out of the motivation to give artists an enduring forum to speak to their audience and document the creative process and inspiration behind their works. Curating timeless content in a hardcover book celebrates the physical and tactile experience that has been undermined by disembodied online news feeds. It is my hope OS02 inspires people to find new ways to approach their art and to seek out the many fantastically talented contributors featured in the book. This video excerpt is from the last Open Source event in downtown San Jose and features Kurt Kurasaki @peff performing on his Buchla, Rudy Colon @rudo_rudeboi on projection art, and Danny Kim @distco on lasers. #opensourcesv #ctrlmod #missionsynths #perfectcircuit #controlvoltage #nonotak #roberthenke #eurorack #kurtkurasaki #binarysociety #monolake #siliconvalley #artbook #moma #synth

some recent newsletters on the music industry 🕵🏽‍♀️ AI slop on streaming platforms, the gamification of nightlife and ever-rising instrument prices stateside—read ‘em all via link in bio

Akai MPC in the Eurorack mix. Audio captured with the Befaco ST amp + the Expert Sleepers Disting NT’s excellent A/D converters! ‘Cronos’ (Cronenberg) Control patch cables! #akaimpc #eurorack #synth #movies #horror #soundtrack #alien #distingnt #expertsleepers #cronenberg #modular

Catch Tony Rolando on the road this month! Make Noise founder @tony_rolando will be out on a short tour this October, playing, improvising and demonstrating the New Universal Synthesizer System. Please come be a part of the journey! New and unfound sounds are more exciting when shared with other open ears. Flyers for Tonys events are listed above, and include the following stops: October 20 - a demo at @ctrlmod (Brooklyn) October 21 - a performance at @sleepwalk.nyc , as part of the Artifact Experimental Music Series (Brooklyn) October 23 - a panel discussion at the Audio Engineering Society conference (@aes_org ) (Los Angeles) October 25 - a demo at @perfect_circuit (Burbank) October 26 - a performance at the @permanentrecordsroadhouse (Los Angeles) October 29 - a performance at @co1orclub (Chicago) Hope to see you there!! #makenoise #modularsynth #eurorack #newuniversalsynthesizersystem

a short tour, playing, improvising and demonstrating the @makenoisemusic New Universal Synthesizer System. Please come be a part of the journey. New and unfound sounds are more exciting when shared with other open ears.

HELLO DARLING, ARE YOU WORKING? // These days it’s all up in the air isn’t it? I mean really. I feel guilty for performing, ashamed of showing us celebrating and dancing, angry at those who just carry on like nothing’s wrong, suspicious of everyone in yoga pants and a baseball hat, and yet I know (read that as I KNOW) that anger turned inward is depression, grief held is anxiety, and as creatives, if we don’t produce then it comes out wrong. It has to come out. It’s as if it’s bigger than us, and it’s our strange curse to receive, interpret or translate and transmit. So it feels good to use this fuel, to channel anger into polyrhythm, run on sentences, blank verse, and double exposures. It feels good to turn grief into meticulous cut outs of printed characters on velum, layered over a Polaroid, or print. It feels real to take things apart, find the faults and restore them. What feels strange is flying off to somewhere, singing about love, talking about the bees, and then heading home. There is a loneliness in all of this for me right now. I neither want to turn away, nor do I want to try and hold it all. This must become a flow. Of my peers and friends who are artists, like it or not, claim it or not, I see such a hustle. Things have never been more expensive or stressful. Rent has more than doubled, and yet I haven’t raised my price in over 10 years. Right now I feel guilty charging anything. I want to give it all away for free. Especially because my dear ones, whom I would do anything for, always strive to meet my fee (or more) and yet “professionals” demand a discount. Whatever you say your fee is, they offer half that. I don’t like to negotiate, so I just pass. Fancy-pants are not my people anyway. How do we reconcile these pieces? My instincts are to press on. To find a way to trust, to make more art. Say yes more often, make records, sing, dance, take pictures, write essays and go. Believe that the outcome will be good, kind, and just. They say that everything will be ok in the end. And if it’s not ok, it’s not the end. Have you moved into more “paid work” to make ends meet? Or are you working at all? You ok? #workingartist #hellodarling

tonight is london why tell you in advance would you come i feel like mourning i do not feel like dancing my melody is bisan smiling as military drones buzz in the back my drum is videos of the seconds before a bomb falls and then another and then another clips scroll past as fast as my thumb flicks no end in sight come do not come i will try to record it for you maybe tomorrow you will have this white man interfering in your scroll between the clips demons unleashed drones circling @clank_modular chaos @ctrlmod cables @hirbawi kufiya @ns.instruments harmonic shift oscillator @xodesnet cm6 drums N95 mask #eurorack #modularsynth #ambient