Circuit Bending & Modding
Jan de Block
Location
Directors office
Description
In this talk&demo 4 topics will be covered:
– how to create a great BoC lofi sound for less than €100?
– how to expand your Volca Modular into a west coast easel in a simple way?
– how to mod a PT2399 delay module to get endless feedback and glitchy sounds?
– how to expand your modular with DIY sensitive touch points and piezos?
Before diving into these topics, we start with general modding & circuit bending tips: understanding the basics will drastically reduce white smoke moments!
The whole session is about analog & DIY: no coding or firmware.
Jan De Block designs and builds noise circuits, modules and installations under the name AddictiveNoise.
With his project Silent Noise Revolution he combines electronics and minimalist piano.
He is also founder of Modular404, a label dedicated to modular synth tracks with a duration of 404 seconds.
Synthux Academy – Everything Audrey Doesn’t Do
Roey Tsemah
Location
Directors office
More info soon.
Schreibmachine – Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end of it
Lavendel Kranz
Location
Directors office
Description
Lavendel Kranz is a musician and modular synth designer who builds instruments. Before that, she spent over 20 years in the video game industry, designing games like FarmVille and Candy Crush Saga.
She founded Schreibmaschine, where she designs compact, playable 1U and Eurorack modules with clear interfaces — mostly sequencers and logic modules. She’s especially known for her boolean logic modules, like the Brainiac and Discrete, which go beyond basic AND/OR/XOR gates and are often built to double as expanders for the Turing Machine and Leibniz ecosystems.
Her workshop will cover all things logic — from the fundamentals of boolean operations in a modular context to hands-on patching techniques with Schreibmaschine’s logic modules, exploring how they can be used for rhythm, melody, and sound design far beyond simple gate combining.
