Church of the Super Serge 06/21/2014 Robotspeak SF, CA

via Willy Goatcheese on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Dmitri SFC is the man behind Coa Modular, makers of vintage Serge designs.  See this post for his previous performance at Robotspeak last March.  If you are in the area, this is a great chance to see some modular systems performed live.

COA

COA modular audio demos. COA are the officially sanction 1970's Serge repro-panels.

http://www.coa-modular.com

This one in via Soviet Space Child.

SLOPE114 for Church Of Super Serge 3/15/14 at Robotspeak

Published on Mar 16, 2014 Dmitri SFC·128 videos

Left channel audio only for the video above. The audio is better in the two videos further below.  Below them you'll find the bandcamp embed for the release.

These are videos for Church Of Super Serge at Robotspeak in San Francisco last Saturday with Shiro Fujioka (you can see Shiro's performance here).

Dmitri is the man behind COA-Modular, makers of Serge panels and modules based on CGS.

Some additional details via Dmitri: "This month for the Church Of Super Serge we booked Shiro Fujioka AKA VoltageCtrlR to play his euro rack & Elise & I represented for the serge side of things by playing my / The Serge Monolyth as Slope114. Here are the videos in some kind of order. PS: Ive been horrible at documenting these events, anybody out there want to help? Just show up at the next Church & let me know 589, 1/2 Haight st. (robotspeak) every third Saturday @ 3pm

I for some reason thought I was recording our Slope 114 set & in the heat of the moment failed miserably with the audio recording BUT luckily Elise & I recorded a practice session the night before so here is a link to that on band camp. The download is free, it says "name your price" but people should be able to enter zero & still get the file. http://slope114.bandcamp.com/"

Part 2 Slope114 Live for ChurchOfSuperSerge 3/15/14


Part3 Slope114 forChurchOfSuperSerge 3/15/14

1978 + 2013

Published on Dec 2, 2013 Dmitri SFC·115 videos

"http://www.coa-modular.com/coarecordi..."

SLOPE114 LIVE @VinylDreams for Robotspeak Synthmeet 10/26/13

Published on Oct 27, 2013

http://www.coa-modular.com/coarecordings

Update:

Part 2, SLOPE114 LIVE @Vinyl Dreams for Robotspeak Synthmeet 2013
Published on Oct 27, 2013

New DIY Synthesizer Documentary in The Works

via Dmitri Sfc on The Muff Wigglers Facebook:

"Just got the OK from Ray Wilson for an interview as well., Traveling to Australia to interview Ken Stone !... Can't travel everywhere so this is a call to please send video of your self & your DIY rig. Send me a PM here on FB to start the convo. Film ETA is late 2014."

This was the first time I heard of the upcoming film so I followed up with Dmitri Sfc.  It turns out it will be a documentary focused on the makers of Synth DIY.  He is looking for video entries per above as he will likely not be able to travel everywhere.  If you have something to share, reach out to him on Facebook via the link above. Per Dmitri: "SDIYers are encouraged to send me video to be included in the film. the doc will go to Sundance , will be feature length, With a sound track release."

A little bit of trivia, Dmitri was in the 2000 documentary "Groove" (IMDB | Wikipedia) which focused on the San Francisco underground rave scene. That's him on the cover.  His music was also featured in BEND: A Circuit Bending Documentary.

And of course he knows Synth DIY. His work with COA-Modular and Serge designs have been featured here on MATRIXSYNTH numerous times.

COA Panel #2

Published on Aug 25, 2013 Dmitri SFC·102 videos

"Talking Panel patch for COA Panel #2, A.K.A. 'Mr. Back up singer'."

Robotspeak Let's Be Friends Modular Workshop & Performances 9/21/2013

via Dmitri Sfc on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Serge Quad Router !

Published on Aug 7, 2013 Dmitri SFC·100 videos

Buy the PCB http://cgs.synth.net/
Buy a panel http://www.coa-modular.com/

via Dmitri Sfc on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Serge 1973 VCF

Published on Jul 29, 2013 Dmitri SFC·98 videos

http://www.coa-modular.com/
http://cgs.synth.net/

Making the Serge Paperface Synth - 1 - The Panel

Published on May 31, 2013 DJjondent·199 videos

"The time was 1973.

Moogs, ARPs & Buchlas ruled the day .... all were very expensive and beyond the reach of most electronic musicians. Only rock stars or those with access to a well heeled university could use synthesizers.

Then along came Serge Tcherepnin (at CalArts) who had the vision to make synthesizers available to everyone. His first ones were handbuilt d.i.y. kits.

The first 1973 machine was used by William Jackson on a Greenpeace anti-whaling vessel (1975) .... to make whale sounds. It was taken on a boat to the Pacific Ocean and used to warn the whales (about humans ???). They were more idealistic & innocent times.

It's this beautiful vision of a time long past which I'm trying to recreate,.... keeping this as low tech as possible & using everyday materials.
The early Serge Synths were designed for the common man to be the "People's Synth".
I hope Serge Tcherepnin would have approved.

This first video shows how I'll make the face plate/panel.
Its just a metal sheet with 1/4 inch holes cut into it in a fixed grid.
A lovely simple design.

Onto this is attached a paper template with glue.
This is covered with transparent adhesive film.
It the old days they used mylar.

Future videos will cover installation of the PCBs,trouble shooting & final tests.

The planned Serge modules for this panel are:
Peak/Trough
Dual processor
Triple wave shaper
'73 Filters
Gate/VCA
Mixer

I'm trying to keep the modules as close to the early 1970's designs as I can.
.... using mostly Ken stone PCBs.

Thanks to Ken Stone for the PCB's
http://www.cgs.synth.net/

& Dmitri of COA for his help.

http://www.youtube.com/user/DmitriSFC
http://www.coa-modular.com/2012/06/03..."

Slope114 - LostInSpace

Published on May 12, 2013 Dmitri SFC·89 videos

"She was overweight. Now she is fit. We don't Starve, or eat small portions. Nor exercise obsessively. All we did was Stop eating cheap food, Start eating 100% Local Grown Organics (farmer's markets!) & bicycling for local transportation.
D-"

http://www.coa-modular.com/

Voice Of The Slew !!

Published on May 3, 2013 Dmitri SFC·87 videos

http://www.coa-modular.com/

Synth unicorn.

New Serge 70s panels by COA-Modular

via http://www.coa-modular.com

"Here she is the first in a series of factory produced MetalPhoto quality aluminum anodized, satin finished panels !  Only $75 ! To go with your Legit CGS/ SERGE PCBs of course !
contact dankedout415 at gmail dot com"