So it’s not just total freedom on the machine’s part. You’re kind of giving it stipulations to work with it. And that like gets my brain buzzing.
That’s Matt Norton. My sweet husband sat down with me again for a quarantine special to explain modular synthesizers to me. We want to de-mystify modular synths to inspire our friends out there to use this time at home to get creative. We also want to look at the positive sides of being in quarantine, because it’s incredibly overwhelming otherwise. We hope you guys are staying healthy and safe, or are resting if you need to recover from being sick. We love you.
We talked about synthesizers like Minimoog, Mellotron, Arp Odyessy, and Op-1 by Teenage Engineering. We also mentioned the loving and supportive Sobriety and Synthesizers Facebook Group.
We also brought up Wonderful, which is a podcast by Griffin and Rachel McElroy (also in Austin, TX), one of my favorites, found on Max Fun.
The song used in the intro and outro of this episode is by Matt Norton as Berm and Swale. He’s on Facebook and Instagram. The song he was working on at the time of the episode, “Packing West,” can be found here:
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