IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 11 Contest Winner!

"Our eleventh winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Dmitry Morozov (aka ::vtol::) for his 'Partita For Unattended Computer.'

Dimitri is a DIY synth builder/artist from Moscow, Russia. This picture was made during his performance "Partita For Unattended Computer," a tribute to P. Zinovieff (Automatic composed music without artist on the stage). Date of picture/concert Oct.13,2010.

For more info, please check ::vtol::'s website.

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Dmitry Morozov for his submission! This is the 11th week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here.

See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners."

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 10 Contest Winner!

"Our ninth winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Scooter McCrae for his 'The Modcan Wall of Sound.'



Scooter McCrae has been playing with electronic music devices for the last 25 years, and most especially loves the modular system he's been able to finally put together in the last four years, after dreaming about a set-up like this for as long as he can remember. Update: "If anyone is interested in hearing the Modcan system in the photo in action, please follow this link to my soundcould page. I'm adding and deleting things all the time, so please enjoy if you choose to check this out."

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Scooter McCrae for his submission! This is the 10th week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here.

See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners."

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 9 Contest Winner!

"Our ninth winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Nina Richards for her untitled Doepfer suitcase shot.

 Nina is half of a music/photography partnership with Zoë Blade, who submitted the photo. "Nina and I have featured our music and photos in various indie films, the latest being the documentary Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts, about the comic book author. It's nice to have this opportunity to combine our two passions!"

Check out Zoë Blade on Bandcamp: http://zoeblade.bandcamp.com

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Nina Richards and Zoë Blade for their submission! This is the 9th week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here.

See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners."

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 8 Contest Winner!

"Our eighth winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Hansi Güçlüer for 'Serge1.'

 Hansi records electronic music under the name St Catharina. "St Catharina is Stockholm's best kept secret."

Here's some of Cathy's work: http://www.youtube.com/user/komputerbrown

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Hansi Güçlüer for the submission! This is the 8th week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here.

See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners."

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 7 Contest Winner!

"Our seventh winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Roger Grønberg for his 'Guro Sandvik.'

 Roger runs the studio & production company Frodebeats, from Oslo, Norway. "At frodebeats production headquarters we like spending all day doing sound design with modular synths."

For more info, please check Frodebeats' website: http://www.frodebeats.com/

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Roger Grønberg for his submission! This is the 7th week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here.

See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners."

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 6 Contest Winner!

"Our sixth winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Lu Katavist for his 'modular dome.'

Based in Cologne, Germany, Lu Katavist creates soundscapes with eurorack modular and Haken Continuum fingerboard. Dogma for recordings: Everything is played live and improvised, without posterior editing. He has released an album ("retoxis") on his own label. Lu thoroughly enjoys playing live, and supported Keiji Haino, December 2011 in Cologne.

For more info, please visit his own label's website: http://smalldeath.org/

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Lu Katavist for his submission! This is the 6th week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners.

A SPECIAL NOTE FROM IDOW DIRECTOR, ROB FANTINATTO: "Hello everyone…just wanted to express my sincere thanks to all of you who have generously donated to this project. With your help, we are going to be able to expand the depth of this documentary far beyond its original scope. Although the IndieGoGo campaign has now officially ended, it is still possible to donate/pre-order via IndieGoGo. I’d like to ask everyone to help us reach as many people as possible by sharing the link to this page to anyone you know that may be interested in being a part of this project. Again, I am incredibly grateful to everyone that has believed in what we are doing! Rob Fantinatto"

Here's the link: 'I Dream Of Wires' film trailer + IndieGoGo fund raising campaign"

Update: http://smalldeath.org/ link above corrected.

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 5 Contest Winner!

Our fourth winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Rastko Lazic for his 'Jealous Heart.'

Rastko Lazic is a composer and improviser of electronic music based in Geneva, Switzerland.

For more info, please check his website: http://rastko.info

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Rastko Lazic for his submission! This is the 5th week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here.

See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners.

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 4 Contest Winner!

"Our fourth winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Mesak for his 'Se-quenching.'



Mesak is a musician and producer coming originally from Turku, Finland. Releases are mostly electro, techno & skweee, but various projects include also rather experimental electronic music. At the moment he´s working on music and running the label Harmönia in Berlin Germany.

Check out Mesak's music on SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/mesak

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Mesak for his submission! This is the 4th week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here.

See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners."

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 3 Contest Winner!

"Our third winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Claus Niegsch (AKA Weinglas) for his 'Modular Bokeh.'

Weinglas' music is best described as "a lot of noise and dark soundscapes." Claus' photographic work is based on macro pictures or pictures with a very shallow depth of field, as seen in 'Modular Bokeh,' which was made with Aperture 1.2!

Check out Weinglas' music on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/weinglas

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Claus Niegsch for his submission! This is the 3rd week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here.

See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners."

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 2 Contest Winner!

"Our second winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Ben Edwards for his 'Buchla and Friends.'

Ben Edwards runs an electronic music studio in London which houses a large collection of vintage synths and recording equipment. He composes and records music as Benge, and has released 10 albums on his own Expanding Records label. He also writes and produces with other artists, the latest project being with John Foxx under the name The Maths.

Studio blog: http://myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot.com

We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Ben Edwards for his submission! This is the 2nd week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here."


See the IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film including the weekly contest winners.

IDOW & MATRIXSYNTH Modular Pic of the Week - Week 1 Contest Winner!

"Our first winner of the Modular Pic of the Week contest goes to Henrik Nordvargr Björkk for his "Small portable setup for live use!"

Since 1988, Henrik Nordvargr Björkk has systematically explored the broad field of the post-industrial music scene. In parallel to his band activities, he has pursued a solo career with a vast amount of record releases. He is widely considered one of the most influential and productive post-industrial artists ever. You can check out his work at www.nordvargr.com.

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We'd like to give a big thanks and congratulations to Henrik Nordvargr Björkk for his submission! We appreciated the personal touch to Henrik's set-up and photo. This is the 1st week of a 30-week contest, and we are looking forward to many more modular photo submissions, so please keep 'em coming! For details on how to submit and what you can win, see this post.

For more info on the upcoming 'I Dream of Wires' documentary, be sure to see the trailer and IndieGoGo fund raising campaign here."

Side note: I created an IDOW label for all posts pertaining to the film. You'll be able to look back at the weekly contest winners there as well.

"I Dream Of Wires" & MATRIXSYNTH - Modular Pic of the Week Contest

"'I Dream Of Wires: The Modular Synthesizer Documentary' is an upcoming film documenting the history and revival of modular synthesizers. You can read about the project, and view the in-progress trailer, over at the film's IndieGoGo fund raising page, here. From the IDOW Facebook page: 'If you haven't had time to check out our campaign - please do! It's essentially a DVD / soundtrack / T-Shirt / etc pre-order, and your early contributions really help us to move forward and solidify our plans.'

For the next 30 weeks, IDOW and MATRIXSYNTH will be co-presenting a modular synthesizer photo of the week contest. The photos will be judged by Robert Fantinatto (IDOW director), Jason Amm (IDOW producer, Ghostly International recording artist Solvent), and MATRIXSYNTH. Every Sunday night, from Oct 30 to May 20, the latest photo of the week winner will be posted here on MATRIXSYNTH. At the end of the 30 weeks, the Top5 photos will be selected.

What do the 'photo of the week' winners get?:
- Complimentary 'I Dream of Wires' DVD (upon film's release).
- Not only will your photo be posted to MATRIXSYNTH, you will also get an accompanying 50 words + 1 website link, to describe & promote your musical/photographic work.
- The photo + accompanying text/URL will also be included on the 'I Dream Of Wires' DVD release, as part of a bonus-feature photo gallery.
- Top5 winners: One of these photos will be selected as an official IDOW T-shirt design, and all 5 will be printed as a postcard set. T-Shirts and postcard sets are available as part of IDOW's IndieGoGo fund raising packages. Top5 winners will also receive a complimentary T-Shirt + postcard set.

Rules and considerations:
- Maximum 3 submissions per person. 1 photo submission per email. Please note that all submissions will remain in the pool of photos, for consideration throughout the contest.
- All digital files must be 5 megabytes or smaller, must be in JPEG or JPG format, and must be at least 1,600 pixels wide (if a horizontal image) or 1,600 pixels tall (if a vertical image).
- Modular synthesizer hardware only. Semi-modular synth hardware is also acceptable as long as there is evidence of some cross-patching.
- Photos will be judged on artistic/aesthetic merit - not on how large/rare the modular is or who it belong(s)/(ed) to.

People are invited to submit photos, via email to modular@idreamofwires.org. You must include the following information in the body of your email submission:
(1) Your name / photo credit.
(2) Please copy and paste the following text: 'I confirm that I am the photographer or the holder of the copyrights of this property. I am allowing 'I Dream of Wires: The Modular Synthesizer Documentary' and MATRIXSYNTH use of this property.'
(3) Title of the photo (optional).
(4) Brief bio and description of your musical &/or photographic work. 50-words maximum (optional).
(5) URL (optional)."