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Chapter 1: Real Randomness vs. Complex Cycles

By Rolf Kasten on May 24, 2023

Chapter 1.1: LFOs When we hear “permanently changing” most of us will surely think of sample and hold units at first.And, yes, S&H units are important engines to drive our generative patches. But what about clock generators and LFOs (the latter being able to serve as clock generators as well)? “Why, LFOs generate regularly repeating […]

Chapter 0: About this e-Book & Generative

By Rolf Kasten on May 23, 2023

A foggy environment that does not always makes sense. Do you know this? You see and hear somebody doing something interesting, something beautiful, something you would like to do too. You try. It ́s not what you had expected it to be, it ́s not how you had expected it to be. So you fiddle […]

Index: A Systematic Introduction To Making Generative Music With Modular Synths

By Rolf Kasten on May 23, 2023

Welcome to this first part of a really long series of articles, articles which will enable you to produce not only “just some kind of” generative music, but truly great generative music by following a strategic and efficient but also joyful approach. There are going to be more than 200 pages (well, in my book […]

Modular Synthesizer Ensemble

By Robin de Geus on May 17, 2023

The “Modular Synthesizer Ensemble” is a social-acoustic and participative music project and offers the possibility to make music together in an ensemble without any previous musical knowledge.The project makes it possible to design the process of creating electronic sounds with the analog Modular Synthesizer. The participants experiment, improvise and compose together and perform the results […]

Artist Performance: Speech Act Theory

By Robin de Geus on March 28, 2023

We have not been sitting still, the Sine Community is growing and the platform is getting more diverse and with that comes our new video on Speech Act Theory, an alternative electronica band based in our own Aotearoa, New Zealand. The Sine Live Sessions are recorded with the viewer in mind, all shot in one […]

Endorphines Ghost

By Robin de Geus on March 28, 2023

In collaboration with Canada based music composer Andrew Huang based on his modern music production techniques Endorphin.es developed a creative audio processor named GHOST with multiple blocks that can be moved around in order to achieve different flavours for sound design. GHOST is a fully digital stereo processing unit without a fixed structure in 16hp: […]

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