Transcript of Meng Qi @ CCOM Digiscore Workshop Lecture: The Complete Design Concept of Horizon

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"During the Digiscore Workshop at the Central Conservatory of Music, where I was invited by Professor Ken Fields, I engaged in a conversation with everyone about musical scores and instruments. We explored the relationship between musical instruments and people, as well as the dual-natured thinking that Trent and I condensed in our musical instrument work, "Horizon." The students at the Conservatory posed many constructive questions, and I truly enjoyed the intellectual exchange with everyone. Here is the lecture transcript, and I hope it is useful to many others."

Studio Playtime with Mroztronium Grackler + Wingie2

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"A brief little playtime in the studio today, with two wonderfully inspiring and strangely named instruments. I combined the Mroztronium Grackler, which is a standalone chaotic voltage controlled instrument, which can produce sounds that resemble everything from birdsong to peanuts caught in your throat, with the Meng Qi Wingie2, which is a stereo resonator and 'excites' the sound from the Grackler. I'm playing on the keyboard of the Wingie2, whilst manipulating the filter on the Grackler. Nice and simple, but I like to think, rather effective in its modest way."

Cricket, a musical instrument jewelry that can be played

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"The Cricket is a solar-powered musical instrument jewelry. It chirps in the sun and can be played by shading. The patterns on its front are not only for decoration but also touchable. The three areas control three oscillators respectively. Pressing them will increase the pitch, change the timbre, and speed up the rhythm. There is also a touch point on the back that will interfere with the output and produce noise. A clip can be attached to the back to wear it on clothes or bags. You can also put it in the grass, and you'll feel closer to summer.

We synth players don't hang Labubu on our bags, but the Cricket 🦗🥳"

Telmatronics Groovetube - comparing line-in/output signals

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"This video shows our completed machine, running second-version pcb.
It is essentially a 2-channel valve pre-amp with plasma tube in the current path. One channel is used for the synth voice, one for line-in.

We've got a good sound putting audio through a Wingie2 resonator before sending to the synth line-in. This boosts certain frequencies of the input, which puts some initial distortion onto the signal.
For these clips the input signal was split before the line-in, and routed into a separate mixer channel to the synth. Turning them up in turn lets you hear what the resonator is doing, and what the synth is."

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Sounds from Superbooth 2025: Meng Qi + Whimsical Raps Horizon⁠

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"We're on the ground in Berlin at the year's biggest synth event. Stay up to date with all the latest gear news, announcements, and preorder info on our Superbooth coverage hub."

Sounds from Superbooth 2025: Meng Qi Skies prototype — a complex CV router/controller⁠

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"We're on the ground in Berlin at the year's biggest synth event. Stay up to date with all the latest gear news, announcements, and preorder info on our Superbooth coverage hub."

Meng Qi Wing Pinger Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer (Minijack)

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Introducing Lore - FM oscillator pair by Crows Electromusic

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March 26, 2025 - Crows Electromusic, a small synth company from Vancouver, Canada, is thrilled to introduce Lore, a standalone all-analog tool for exploratory sound synthesis, ambient, drone, and noise music. With individual controls for each function, Lore gives direct control of two independent triangle-core oscillators and can be switched to an FM synthesis mode to unlock a wide range of complex tones. The instrument’s unique un-quantized interface is perfect for exploring pure tones, drones, and FM sound textures.

Features:

• 100% analog circuitry
• Two triangle-core oscillators
• Crossfade between triangle and square waves
• One-control-per-function interface
• Fully standalone, just add headphones
• Transparent bioplastic enclosure
• USB powered
• Handmade in Canada

Lore is our second release, building on what we’ve learned making our first product OVUM analog sound explorer. We had two goals in mind during development: first we wanted to make something that could create a harsher and more aggressive sound, and second, we wanted to see how small a synth we could make. On both fronts we think Lore is a success - it measures under 3 x 3 inches, and the FM mode gives you access to a whole range of shimmering, grinding, and metallic sounds. Just like with OVUM, we prioritized immediate control and ease of exploration. No understanding of oscillators, wave shapes, or FM synthesis is required to pick it up and start creating interesting and inspiring sound. We think people of all ages, musical abilities, and experience levels are going to love this instrument.

Lore is available now for $79 CAD / $59 USD.

Crows Electromusic is a small synth company based in Vancouver, Canada. Started by Cory Alder in 2022. Crows’ goal is to develop new hardware instruments that challenge the established ways we interact with sound and music creation. Their first product, OVUM was released in 2023, and their second product Lore is available now.

For more information, please visit Crows’ website at https://crowselectromusic.com or follow us on social media (Instagram, Bluesky) at @crowselectromusic.

Links:

Lore fm oscillator pair

Our interactive introduction to FM synthesis

OVUM analog sound explorer

https://crowselectromusic.com

Timeless Garden Horizon: An enigmatic instrument for sonic exploration

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"Trent of Whimsical Raps gives us a tour of the Horizon, a collaboration between Whimsical Raps and Meng Qi. It has an intriguing interface and contains a wide variety of features including arpeggiators, pinged filters, resonant filter banks, and delays."

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Lorre Mill Double Knots + Multicassa + Meng Qi Wingie: 🎧 test jamming 🎧

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"had some bizarre syncing issues out in the field between the DKs and Multicassa. i got my rig home and no problems. there’s always the possibility that it was a stress induced mistake, but i’ve don’t think anything differently. do i need a power conditioner?

anyway, here’s my test jam :)

🎧 for bass & stereo field 🎧 "

WING PINGER MEETS I'M GIBBER V3

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"This video is just a little taste of what these two awesome instruments can do together.

The Wing Pinger is a cool new analog music instrument that lets you blend melody and noise in perfect harmony.

The original Gibber device was created by Rob Hordijk and Biyi Amez in 2020, when the usual activities at Hordijk Mansions in The Hague were put on hold because of the pandemic lockdown. Biyi, Rob's friend, assistant, and protégé, found a rare and outdated computer voice chip and had the idea to turn it into a synthesizer. Rob was intrigued, and in the following weeks, The Gibber was born.

The 'I'm Gibber' is a generative/self-playing device that can also be somewhat controlled by the user. It's based on Rob's "Rungler," a digital shift register that feeds back into itself. This setup makes the voice chip continuously produce a stream of phonemes, vowels, plosives, and syllables from the English language, but they’re all jumbled together in a stream that never quite forms recognizable language or meaning.

If you're interested in buying an 'I'm Gibber V3,' just shoot an email to biyiblip@gmail.com. Limited units available, so grab one before it's gone forever!

Check out and download the I’m Gibber V3 manual here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A8jC..."

See the Biji Amez label below for additional posts.

一年后，玉刻有了新琴（我也）

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"Meng Qi on timelessgarden Horizon / Yukes on Soma Flux"

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New Horizon Synth Analog Ecosystem for Sound and Gesture

SUPERBOOTH 2024: Timeless Garden - Horizon Experimental Synth

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"Horizon celebrates a world of ambiguous dualities~~ harmony/chaos, smooth/stepped, intuitive/practiced, manual/automatic. Built around an invertible heirarchy of pinged-filter cores, and a resonant garden of delays and filters. A rapid and responsive playing surface, smoothly blurring between textures or precisely sculpting a spectral landscape. Honed musicians and freeform experimentalists alike will find their own personal expressions within.

At centre, two Mountains of pinged filters, cross-coupled with smooth and stepped frequency modulation. These pings flow into a resonant filterbank and stereo delays, guided and recirculated by Tide sliders. The filterbank follows the path of 5 Bird sliders, collecting resonances from a playful just-intoned scale generator. Between these worlds flow Currents controlled by the touch surface, capable of wrangling chaos into pure tones or latching into sequences for otherwise busy hands. As the Tides ebb and flow, sequence & delay times are modulated in rhythmic/harmonic steps transforming relationships and shifting priorities.

Sitting proudly at the centre of a performance, or nestled into a larger setup with Eurorack CV i/o. Process external sounds, or use global feedback for an added layer of unpredictability."

"Timeless Discrepancies" ✨⏳✨ Meng Qi Wing Pinger & Folktek Aether

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"New piece composed around an improvisation recorded with the Folktek Aether and Meng Qi Wing Pinger synths👌🏽

Folktek Aether's audio signals going through Meng Qi's Wing Pinger, and Aether's touch CV outputs controlling Q and Cut Off on the Wing Pinger, both instruments feature banana jacks.

Performance and recording by Stephano Gavilanes© Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved."

Meng Qi Wing Pinger

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In Beijing's golden autumn, an impromptu of refreshing natural(synthetic) sounds 🍂 🎛️

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"A jam session with the traveling artist Passepartout Duo.

孟奇 Meng Qi: Horizon Prototype
Nicoletta Favari: Digital Chromaplane Prototype
Christopher Salvito: Analog Chromaplane

㊗️ Congratulations to my good partner Annqi on her wedding
㊗️ Happy birthday to Trent
㊗️ Happy National Day"


You can find additional Meng Qi Horizon posts here

You can find additional KOMA Elektronik Chromaplane posts here.

Meng Qi Wing Pinger + Eventide H90 // Shadows and Lights

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"The Wing Pinger is not easy to process: it sports two outputs which are... double mono?
Not really, and I will show you why soon in the upcoming tutorial (long in the making, I know).
But that's also why I decided to keep one pedal, and that pedal is the H90, which allows for extensive customization of the inputs, and it's modular in its own way.
I created this new preset for the Eventide H90, called Noise Glue, which is a combination of a 4-head delay + tape saturation to keep everything cohesive, and I think it complements beautifully the sound echoing war chants and drums on the battlefield, juxtaposed to the few plucks of melodic rain here and there.
It is always very hard to share a recording of the Wing Pinger, because the lengthy drones and ear-massaging FM sounds do not translate well as a format on YouTube or as a recording: it really is an instrument to be touched and felt."

小羽二代 Wingie2 的一百零一种玩法（第二集）

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"小羽玩家是一个热衷于分享演奏和交流玩法的群体，但我们疏于整理，上一次做小羽玩家的集锦还是2年前。这一次终于又做啦，以后也欢迎大家投稿，让合少的平台变成大家的舞台，让我们的声音都被听见！"

Googlish:

"Xiaoyu players are a group that is keen on sharing their performances and exchanging gameplay, but we have neglected to organize them. The last time we made a collection of Xiaoyu players was 2 years ago. This time we finally did it again. In the future, we welcome everyone to contribute, so that Heshao's platform can become everyone's stage and let our voices be heard!"

SUPERBOOTH 2024: Timeless Garden - Horizon Experimental Synth

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"At Superbooth 2024, Sonic State got a sneak peek at the Horizon*, a new collaborative instrument by *Trent from Timeless Garden *and the developer of the Wing Pinger. The Horizon* features a resonator system built around the Wing Pinger device, with delays, a filter bank, and a touch sequencer/play surface to tie it all together. The unique design of the Horizon allows for exploration and inspiration, offering both melodic and experimental sound possibilities.

Trent demonstrated the capabilities of the Horizon, showcasing its ability to create strange and interesting sounds through feedback, FM modulation, and stepped modulation effects. The touch sequencer enables users to create melodies with variable step lengths and pitch quantization controlled by sliders. With analog signal processing and rich bucket brigade delay sound, the Horizon offers a unique sonic experience for musicians looking to push the boundaries of traditional synthesis. Stay tuned for the release of the Horizon in 2024, with an estimated price range between one and two thousand US dollars. For more information on the Horizon visit the link below:

https://timeless.garden/" Note the bottom of the page notes Meng Qi + Whimsical Raps.

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"Horizon celebrates a world of ambiguous dualities~~ harmony/chaos, smooth/stepped, intuitive/practiced, manual/automatic. Built around an invertible heirarchy of pinged-filter cores, and a resonant garden of delays and filters. A rapid and responsive playing surface, smoothly blurring between textures or precisely sculpting a spectral landscape. Honed musicians and freeform experimentalists alike will find their own personal expressions within.

At centre, two Mountains of pinged filters, cross-coupled with smooth and stepped frequency modulation. These pings flow into a resonant filterbank and stereo delays, guided and recirculated by Tide sliders. The filterbank follows the path of 5 Bird sliders, collecting resonances from a playful just-intoned scale generator. Between these worlds flow Currents controlled by the touch surface, capable of wrangling chaos into pure tones or latching into sequences for otherwise busy hands. As the Tides ebb and flow, sequence & delay times are modulated in rhythmic/harmonic steps transforming relationships and shifting priorities.

Sitting proudly at the centre of a performance, or nestled into a larger setup with Eurorack CV i/o. Process external sounds, or use global feedback for an added layer of unpredictability."

New Horizon Synth Analog Ecosystem for Sound and Gesture

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Meng Qi Wingie 2 & Synthstrom Deluge // The process IS the performance!

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"The Wingie 2 by @MengQiMusic changed my musical approach (for good).
It made me embrace the environmental noise, it made me start thinking a bit outside of the "synthesizers are for synthwave" box, and its portability, its cuteness, made me more willing to open up and breathe a bit more.
It's hard to explain, but after getting a Wingie I started to reconsider microphones, I got an Arbhar, I got a Befaco i4, I repaired my OP1 Field mic, I even sang into my modular (and you've seen that video already), all things I would have found sacrilegious in the recent past.
The fun part is that all those other instruments cost more than the Wingie, and yet the Wingie is still the tool that forces me to plan more a recording, while also requiring me less effort in doing so.
Love it.
Here it is being controlled by the Deluge by Synthstrom, in the new OLED version, which finally gave me the appeal and strength to study it better, and put it to good use. And I've owned a Deluge since 2018 😄
I hope you'll enjoy this little moment of calmness, my musical way to cope with the incredibly noisy neighbour I have, through resonation."