The only logical road to go down for my sound work is to build a rudimentary synthesiser and perform using that. This will not be my first synthesiser build, but may be my first permanent build that won’t be held together purely by blind luck. I’ve also been putting a lot of thought into playability, how one controls a synthesiser, this sort of thing. Ciat Lonbarde (run by Peter Blasser) has been a great influence in identifying simple and intuitive ways to control synthesisers.

In terms of my research proposal, I intent to propose to build a synthesiser. It’ll comprise of a few oscillators being triggered by other oscillators, all independant of eachother to enable polyrhythmic functionality. Filters and envelopes would be an additional bliss, and oscillation intermodulation would be the tin hat on it. Dont even get me started on stereo…….

But envelopes and filters are things that I’m still working out – lots of work is still to be done, and we’ll see how successful I am given the limited time and resources. Component cost is a thorn in my side; I’m about to drop £30 on components in the hopes that they’ll enable me to experiment more, and get a working model. We’ll see. Thats pretty much two nights out; perhaps I should have chosen coding, instead. That would enable more money to be spent on drink.