Special Issue X
INPUT-OUTPUT: Tales from another module
#define COLOPHON
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Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing,
Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie:
Avital Barkai
Damlanur Bilgin
Sandra Golubjevaite
Tisa Neza Herlec
Mark van den Heuvel
Max Lehmann
Mika Motskobili
Clara Noseda
Anna Sandri
Ioana Tomici
Olli Aarni
Dennis de Bel
Andre Castro
Leslie Drost-Robins
Aymeric Mansoux
Michael Murtaugh
Steve Rushton
De Player:
Peter Fengler
Koos Siep
Frederic van de Velde
Rotterdam, NL
Autumn 2019
*/

This publication is a coproduction/seminar by
Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design: Experimental Publishing,
Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academie and
DE PLAYER, Rotterdam

This publication documents the work developed during the first trimester of Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing programme 2019. It involves  notions of sound, language and interfaces, working towards building a common organism - a modular synthesizer.
#define A modular synthesizer consists of separate specialized modules. Each individual module accepts inputs and produces an output. When interconnected, this allows for unexpected results where the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
void setup () {
This point of departure led us to produce 10 unique contributions to the common assembly of the publication INPUT-OUTPUT: Tales from another module. Each contribution consists of one or more modules, which represent our individual interests in exploring this medium. Outputs vary between sound, image and text, resulting in an audio-visual performance.
The following pages are a compilation of our research and resulting work, complete with instructions of assembly and use. See more on the website:
https://issue.xpub.nl/10/
};
void loop () {
Faced with the completely unknown world of modular synthesizers, we pushed on toward the edges of our comfort zones. Soldering fumes gave us headaches, learning C/C++ tested our patience, debugging became a daily process.
Each of our manuals translates a complex architecture into an explicit, detailed set of programs and connections. The components of this publication are meant to be built, programmed and connected, for anyone to partake in this poised riot of sounds, scenes and tales.
};

This publication documents the work developed during the first trimester of Piet Zwart Institute's Experimental Publishing programme 2019. It is the result of
#define A modular synthesizer consists of separate specialized modules. Each individual module accepts inputs and produces an output. When interconnected, this allows for unexpected results where the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
void setup () {
This point of departure led us to produce 10 unique contributions to the common assembly of the publication INPUT-OUTPUT: Tales from another module. Each contribution consists of one or more modules, which represent our individual interests in exploring this medium, towards building a common organism - a modular synthesizer. Outputs vary between sound, image and text, resulting in an audio-visual performance.
The following pages are a compilation of our research and resulting work, complete with instructions of assembly and use. See more on the website:
https://issue.xpub.nl/10/
};
void loop () {
Faced with the completely unknown world of modular synthesizers, we pushed on toward the edges of our comfort zones. Soldering fumes gave us headaches, learning C/C++ tested our patience, debugging became a daily process.
Each of our manuals translates a complex architecture into an explicit, detailed set of programs and connections. The components of this publication are meant to be built, programmed and connected, for anyone to partake in this poised riot of sounds, scenes and tales.
};