03-05-2018

Today I re-aquainted myself with the EMS Synthi AKS. In December of 2017, I took a masterclass with Robin Fox on EMS & pin-board patching. Luckily for me there was only one other in the class.. David Chesworth! I loved the warm breathing sounds of the EMS oscillator and the pin-board patching.

Before my first day i briefly checked out some interesting videos on Youtube. One in particular had some amazing envelope and filter sweep sounds. I had taken a bunch of screenshots of the patches. This led to a couple of hours of trying (in vain) to insanely emulate/copy the sounds from the video!

Now while quite unsuccessful in recreating that exact sound, it was successful in reaffirming that I am here at MESS to create my own sounds and experiments!

So beginning again I took the Synthi Educational Handbook and closed Youtube. This is an absolutely cracking book/instruction manual written by Peter Grogono of Electronic Music Studios of American Inc in April 1972.