SUPERBOOTH 27 Set for May 6 - 8, 2027 at FEZ Berlin

Press release follows:

Berlin, the 21st of July 2026

The SUPERBOOTH BERLIN — the world’s biggest trade fair and festival for electronic musical instruments — is excited to announce the date for next year’s SUPERBOOTH27 along with a look back at this year’s SB26, featuring this year’s visitor numbers and more.

SUPERBOOTH27 DATE
The SB27 will be happening from the 6th to the 8th of May 2027 at the FEZ Berlin.

More information about the start of ticket pre-order sales and other details related to next year’s SuperBooth will follow later in the year.

SB26: NUMBERS & STATS

The SUPERBOOTH saw a total of 9600 visitors (excluding staff and exhibitors) at the FEZ across all three days of the event.

The total number of brands and manufacturers exhibiting their newest developments was 320, with those exhibitors coming from 35 different countries across the globe.

The SB26’s stages featured performances from over 50 international artists, with an outstanding closing b2b performance from Tunegirl and Colin Benders.

Covering the event were over 230 members of the press, including dozens of well-known YouTubers and content creators.

SB26: HIGHLIGHTS & ADDITIONS
Overall, the SB26 was another successful edition of the SuperBooth, with all involved parties coming together to channel the event’s unique mix of tradeshow passion and relaxed festival vibes across the exhibition areas, concerts and sold-out workshops.

A very positively received new addition this year were two headphone-only areas in half of area W and two tents in outside area Z.

The new FLINTA* area for female, non-binary, transgender and gender-diverse people was received very well by those attending it.

There was a new talks stage in the Bungalowdorf area, the Stromkult stage that featured live conversations with artists like Polygonia and Anna Z and brands like Verbos and Doepfer.

At the Strandbühne stage, there was a new product presentation format with Korg Berlin and Schwarzmann (Henrik Schwarz and Frank Wiedemann).

There were also new installation projects, including installations in the circus tent and foyer entry area. There are already plans for more installations next year.

For more information, please visit www.Superbooth.com

Colin Benders - Reunion - #Eurorack Jamsession & an Analysis by BRiES

Sep 5, 2016 video upload by Colin Benders

"Ever since I came back home I've been pushing out tracks non stop. finally got something of a workflow going it seems. Not looking forward to editing it all later but thats another story.

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2020 Edit:
Still haven't released this track lol. I have been plenty active since I have recorded this track though!"

BHSTS / REUNION by Colin Benders / compositional analysis

video upload by BRiES

0:00 the track
17:33 the analysis

On the larger system:

ER101 & 102 Microtonal Experiment | Modular Mayhem with Colin Benders

video upload by Colin Benders

"Last weekend I was asked to do a full ambient show with no drums, so I got creative with some patch ideas and stumbled upon a feature I had never used before... let's see how deep we can go with this! expect lots of polyphony and wild sequences, things can get crazy today...!

Go ahead and have some fun with the 'Prignalia' stems: https://linktr.ee/colinbenders
You can upload version over there if you want to! _________________________________
Sole but far-from-lonely emperor of a monster 243-module rack, genre-unbound sound explorer, modular mad scientist to the bone, call him whatever you like it’s a fact: Dutch wave-tumbler Colin Benders defies the conventions of so easily tag-slapped electronics as much as his music confronts gravity itself. Untamed and unshackled from today’s main line of tepid production behaviourism, striving in an artistic lane truly his own, Benders has completely veered off the grand street's accepted modus operandi to operate his gear and imagination in utterly innovative fashion.

Having garnered a more than solid experience of the first-hand musician-to-listener experience, Benders keeps on cutting new trails for live electronics, away from drowsy standards and mimetic attitudes. Instead, the Dutch performer pledges to rethink our whole consumption and digestive process of music through lengthy, free-jazz-like momentums to lose your mind and body to. The knowledge and time spent perfecting his craft both apart and before his online audience shines through these patched-up symphonies of boisterous sine-waves, all-engulfing lo-end swells and hair-raising crescendos that have already conquered the likes of Dekmantel, Awakenings, ADE and Berghain. #modularsynth #colinbenders"

IT’S ALIVE!!! My monstersynth is done!

video upload by Colin Benders

"Its done!!! The synth is up and running! after 3 weeks of chaos and many more of evading the task, I finally have the layout I always wanted... time for a quick recap! I'll take you through the steps of how I approached the eurorack design of my monstersynth in this final vlog entry of my build series.

if you're interested in the layout and have a look at the guts of this gargantuan thing, follow these links!

https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/v...

https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/v..."

SOOPERWEEK at SUPERBOOTH - List of Events for SUPERBOOTH24

Press release follows:

Berlin, May 14th 2024

SUPERBOOTH BERLIN - the world‘s biggest trade fair for electronic musical instru- ments – is happening this week from Thursday to Saturday (May 16th to May 18th) on the grounds of the FEZ-Berlin. An international audience of professionals and enthusiasts from all over the world will travel to Berlin for the event.

In addition to the SUPERBOOTH itself, there will also be an accompanying program with various side events. And in 2024, this side program, dubbed „SooperWeek“, is more extensive than ever before.
SooperWeek begins on Tuesday, May 14th at 7pm with a workshop at Schnei- dersLaden Berlin by the artist TamiX hailing from China who will also perform at SuperBooth24. More information can be found here.

On Wednesday, the day before SuperBooth, JacqNoise is hosting a pre-SuperBooth party at Ohm from 8pm. Among others, Blush Response, the YouTuber Cuckoo, Fess Grandiose b2b RMM and Trovarsi b2b ALX-106 will be playing. More informa- tion can be found here.

Thursday, there will be an audio-visual installation by Robert Seidel and Nikolai von Sallwitz in the Kulturraum Zwingli Kirche e.V. from 8pm for those that wish to relax after a dense first day of SuperBooth. More information here.

Thursday, there will also be a more musically intensive option at Berghain from 9pm: the Hunger To Create label night, the experimental label of Dasha Rush, who played at SuperBooth back in 2019. The program includes live sets by Dasha Rush, Colin Benders, Le Ciel and a DJ set by Quelza. More information here.

Thursday from 7pm, there will also be a party at Kater Blau: ATMOSPHÈRES Vol. 2 with Nadia Struiwigh, SURKID and more. More information here.

Friday from 7pm, the Novilla Art Center will host the Flux & Pulse event with live electronic music in the style of the Berlin School with the artists Filter-Kaffee and Kontroll-Raum, both of whom have already played at the SuperBooth. More information here.

Friday, the Berlin-based developer Bitwig, who is also exhibiting at Super- Booth24, will be celebrating its 10th anniversary with a party at Klunkerkranich from 10pm with a live set by Stimming and other performances. More information can be found here.

Friday there will also be a „Hyperbooth“ party at the Void Club from 11pm with Blush Response, who played at last year‘s SuperBooth, Zardonic and more. More information can be found here.

Saturday, Mykle Hansen is organizing a bike ride with synthesizers from Treptower Park to the SuperBooth event grounds, starting at 9.30am. The concept is called „Bleeps & Bloops Rides“ and originated in Portland. More information here.

On Saturday night, this year’s SuperBooth afterparty will be a From Our Minds party hosted by Richie Hawtin at Watergate with DJ and live sets from our longti- me SuperBooth friends Richie Hawtin and Sunroof (Daniel Miller & Gareth Jones), as well as sets and performances by the newcomers Franz Jäger, Declan James, dxrvo, machìna and Pooja B.

SuperBooth visitors will receive an entry discount of 10 euros (15 euros instead of 25 euros) at the door of this party when presenting a three-day SuperBooth ticket and can queue at the guest list queue. More information can also be found here.

Sunday - the last day of SooperWeek – there is an event at Klunkerkranich from 4pm, the DiY Kit Day x Berlin Modular Society. There will be DiY workshops where participants can solder various kits, as well as musical performances. More infor- mation can be found here.

There will also be two „invite only“ events on Sunday from two brands exhibiting at SuperBooth24: A 10th anniversary celebration from Verbos Electronics and anot- her event from Korg Berlin. If you are interested, please contact the brands directly.

Pre-sale tickets for SUPERBOOTH24 itself are still available at www.superbooth.com There will also be a box office at the event.

Suspenseful/Action Eurorack Modular Piece - Colin Benders-like Side-chain on Make Noise Maths.

video upload by Piotr Garbaczonek

"Thanks for watching!
Everything was done on the modular system, with no in-the-box processing, except for panning and a single limiter on the master channel. I found a way to use Make Noise Maths as a sidechain compressor for the kick and the bass. It worked out beautifully. Cheers:)
Follow my Patreon for detailed Patch Notes:
https://www.patreon.com/pgarbaczonek?...

Here are some links of mine:
https://linktr.ee/pgarbaczonek
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Maarten Vos - live @SUPERBOOTH21

video upload by Superbooth Berlin

"The Dutch artist Maarten Vos played an incomparable set on the Seaside-Stage at SUPERBOOTH21. With the otherworldly Haken Continuum, a Buchla synthesizer and a Eurorack Modular System he took the audience a sonic journey.

Known as much for his outlier, exploratory approach to the cello as his work with modular synthesizers, he’s constantly exploring the boundaries of what can be done with certain instruments. His work is influenced by numerous collaborations with artists like Julianna Barwick, Stimming, Colin Benders and by excursions into other art forms, where he composed music for various disciplines, collaborated with fashion designers, visual artists and scored music for film.

Maarten Vos:
https://maartenvos.com/
https://www.instagram.com/maartenvos_/

BeSOOPER - SUPERBOOTH22 & SOOPERgrail:
https://www.besooper.com/en/
https://www.superbooth.com/en/
https://www.soopergrail.com/en/welcom..."

Note the schedule for BeSOOPER - SUPERBOOTH22 & SOOPERgrail is up. See the links above the program.

Cosmotronic Peradam - Sidechained Distortion

video upload by Cosmotronic

"Peradam is an analog distortion module with an internal sidechain, like a compressor's twisted brother. The input signal is split up in a main signal that goes into a VCA, and side-chain. The side-chain is first phase modulated, and then ring modulated by itself, to create a signal at twice the frequency of the original. This signal then modulates the amplitude of the VCA, creating complex self distortions in the main signal.

That output then goes into a dual band drive circuit, similar to the one found in Cosmix, before entering a soft clipper output stage. Things get really wild when you start feedbacking this output back into the input, creating very rich feedback tones.

The module even goes into self oscillation at high feedback levels, producing all sorts of crazy sounds. Modulating all these parameters gives a broad palette of distortions, from subtle saturation to massive clipping and complete destruction.

Need a bit more drive? There's a handy +6dB gain switch on the input for that. A blend slider allows you to further dial in your tones, and mix in the distortion to taste.

MSRP € 270
Pre orders open now
Estimate shipping date: January 2022

For a more musical context please check it out in Colin Benders live set."


Live Setup PT 2 | Modular Mayhem With Colin Benders | S3E14 | Eurorack Jam Sessions

video upload by Colin Benders

About 8 minutes in.

"Modular Mayhem is back!!!!
we'll have a fresh episode and a whole season ahead of us! expect lots of nerding with gear, lots of patches, lots of modular things and lots of music.
All under the watchful eye of the most amazing community I could have wished for. Streampunks baby!"

How to make a TINY live techno modular synth in only 62HP.

mylarmelodies

"This video is like a step-by-step workshop where I will systematically explain and patch an entire wee tiny live techno modular synth, that works a LOT like my bigger live system. I'll show how I wire it up, and talk about techniques/problems and options throughout.

I've designed many iterations of my live modular system at this point but it's been interesting to work on how SMALL you can make a system and still keep it relatively usable and flexible. I've been able to take ideas from Surgeon, Colin Benders and my own experiments and squeeze them into the smallest space practical. This video should be useful if you are new to modular, as it is intentionally systematic without missing out any steps!"

Colin Benders - Modular Lockdown! - Day 2

Published on Mar 19, 2020 Colin Benders

"With the Corona virus wreaking havoc, I have decided to self isolate for a while. I brought some toys with me and will be streaming while I work from home for a while :) stay safe out there!"

Colin Benders - Modular Lockdown! Self Isolating the fun way

Published on Mar 18, 2020 Colin Benders

"With the Corona virus wreaking havoc, I have decided to self isolate for a while. I brought some toys with me and will be streaming while I work from home for a while :) stay safe out there!"

Machina Bristronica 2020 Event Set for Saturday March 21 in Bristol, UK

Tickets available here

Line-up and details:

Colin Benders, Look Mum No Computer, Scanner, Daniel Miller & Finlay Shakespeare, Steevio & Suzybee, Ossia, Em Williams, dmgn, Adrenospoon.

Gather round humanoids, androids and creatures that live in the wires! The great Machina is stirring and our engineers are gathering from all
corners of the galaxy to join us in celebration of all things modular and bleeping.

Again we at Elevator Sound bring our festival of Knobs, Buttons and Discussions over 4 warehouse rooms in the heart of Bristol.

A full day and evening of synthesizer stalls, panel talks, live hardware performances, DIY modular workshops, Ableton Live workshops, Max4Live build sessions and the Escher Music Connection showcase.

Synths & Talks 12:00pm - 18:00pm
Live Sets : 12:00pm - 20:00pm
Escher Showcase : 20:00pm - 22:00pm with 1020 Radio.

Knobs In Conjuntion with:

Thonk
Focusrite / Novation
Audio-Technica / Allen&Heath
Roland UK

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Against The Clock Lab w/ AMyn, Colin Benders, & Sjamsoedin

AMyn - Against The Clock Lab Published on Oct 25, 2017

"Last weekend, we took Against The Clock to Amsterdam Dance Event’s Sound Lab and the results were spectacular. During the event, we had three artists create a track completely from scratch in front of an audience.

First up, Belgian producer AMyn steps up to the plate and creates a soulful hip-hop instrumental."

Colin Benders - Against The Clock Lab

Published on Oct 25, 2017 FACTmagazine

"A modular synth maestro.

After AMyn’s soulful session, modular synth wizard Colin Benders showed us his impressive setup, creating a powerful performance with a wall of modular synth gear."

Sjamsoedin - Against The Clock Lab

Published on Oct 25, 2017 FACTmagazine

"After two great sessions from Colin Benders and AMyn, Dutch producer Sjamsoedin takes the spotlight.

During his 10 minutes, Sjamsoedin creates an experimental jam using an MPC, a vintage synth and a small modular rig."

Colin Benders - Monster

Published on Oct 25, 2017 Colin Benders

You can find the making of this tune here.

Modular Mayhem: Finishing this monster tune

Streamed live 5 hours ago Colin Benders

"in fact, lets call it Monster"

Another multi-hour eurorack modular stream from Colin Benders; this one just over 3 hours.

Update: You can find the end result of this session here.

Modular Mayhem: Midsummer Space Session with Colin Benders

Started streaming 24 minutes ago Colin Benders

Let's Patch - Modular Synthesizer Experiments with Colin Benders 3: Derping around with rhythms

Streamed live on May 11, 2017

Four hours of Colin Benders on his modular system. I thought this was one was particularly interesting as he discusses what he is doing as he builds a complex patch from scratch.

"We tried to feedbackloop clocks and found out why we can't directly feedback loop clocks.
We did some Zombienation
We did a lot with clock multipliers/dividers/probability
We found out Circadian Rhythm does not like variable clocks (or variable pulsewidth) but the A-157 does not mind
Zetaohm dropped by in the chat and showed me how to do polyrhythms with his FLXS1"

Sasha - View2 (Remix)

Sasha - View2 (Remix) from Rodrigonzalez on Vimeo.

"Remix of the remix of Colin Benders for Sasha using only the modular and recorded in one shot. No DAW. No external effects."

Live at SUPERBOOTH17 - Performances by Ströme and Colin Benders

Published on Apr 24, 2017 akirasrebirth

"Ströme live at superbooth 2017"


Published on Apr 24, 2017

"Colin Benders live at superbooth 17"

Colin Benders - Eurorack Breakbeat Shenanigans

Published on Apr 14, 2017 Colin Benders

"Here's the end result of our Let's Patch episode. you can watch the full making of here:"

Colin Benders - Skydive (Eurorack Jamsession)

Published on Apr 10, 2017 Colin Benders

And the 3 hours and 55 minutes making of video "(its a long one so skip to around 1 hr in)":

Modular Mayhem with Colin Benders 16: Song building mode

Streamed live on Mar 28, 2017 Colin Benders

MEFF 2017: (Modular Synthesizer Exhibition Fair in Florence, Italy)

MEFF 2017: (Modular Synthesizer Exhibition Fair in Florence, Italy) from Tiptop Film on Vimeo.

"TIPTOP AUDIO and LATTEX PLUS present:

MEFF: Modular synthesizer Exhibition Fair in Florence - 24-25th April 2017 @ IED - Firenze (Via Maurizio Bufalini 6/r)

MEFF NIGHT Event: 24th April 2017 @ Tender Club - Florence

COLIN BENDERS (live) - ANGLE vs JOAO CESER (live) - TEO NADDI

VIDEO MADE BY: PIERO FRAGOLA and MATTEO GIAMPAGLIA

Music by: ANGLE

All the modules are hand drawn paintings and printed on Fedrigoni - Tintoretto Ceylon Sesamo

Special thanks to: Giulia Borsi, Jamaica De Marco, Costanza Cataldo, Rossella Catanese, Lucille Mancini, Lorenzo Marchi, Luca Ruggeri.

http://tiptopaudio.com/meff/"

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