This Sunday at Dorkbot Melbourne, Australia

*4pm, Sunday 28 September, 2008
Level 1, 124a Johnston St Fitzroy 3065 (just east of Brunswick St).

This Sunday Dorkbot Melbourne, Auatralia.

::: Ross Healy (aka Cray) :::
::: VICMOD - Melbourne DIY Modular Synth Builders :::

Ross will provide a glimpse into the world of VICMOD, a group of musicians and synthesizer enthusiasts who meet monthly in the Melbourne CBD to discuss and construct modular analog audio synthesizers. Each month the group builds a different module, often those designed by Ken Stone (http://www.cgs.synth.net/). Ross will also demonstrate some of the modules which have been built at VICMOD over the past couple of years.

Experimental electronic artist Ross Healy has been an active member of the Melbourne music scene since 1988 and has released recordings around the globe with projects such as This Digital Ocean, Amnesia, 56k Siko Spunji, and Horaku . These days he releases and performs under the 'Cray' moniker, making music with his 95 module modular synthesizer as well as software instruments.

::: Ross Bencina (aka Mulchwerk) :::
::: AudioMulch 2.0 progress report :::

For the last 2.5 years Ross has been working on a new version of his AudioMulch software musical instrument ( http://www.audiomulch.com ) which is now reaching the final stages of development. Ross will provide a preview of what he's been working on and will discuss some of the details of the AudioMulch 2.0 development process.

Ross Bencina is a composer, performer, software developer and digital instrument maker, with a strong interest in improvised electroacoustic music. He has performed solo and with collaborators around Australia and internationally. Ross is the creator of AudioMulch interactive music studio - software for electronic music performance. In 2004 and 2005 Ross collaborated with researchers at the Music Technology Group, Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona where he contributed to the development of the reacTable musical instrument. Ross is the director of Sonic Fritter Pty. Ltd., which sells AudioMulch and provides software development and consulting services for audio-related applications.

http://www.audiomulch.com/~rossb"

VICMOD One Synth Feature Releases

"A quick run down on VICMOD Records new releases and future releases."
Two releases that feature only one synth are mentioned:
Richard Lainhart and the Moog Modular
Don Hassler and the EMS SYNTHI
Cray, the man behind VICMOD, and who has been featured here a number of times (cray posts, cray56 posts) is also featured.

VICMOD - 20 August 2019 | Modular Synthesizer

Baséput

"Just some of the footages I shot from my first meeting in VICMOD - Victoria modular. Vicmod (est 2005) is a monthly modular synth meet 3rd Sunday every month in Melbourne, Australia. Hope to meet you all again soon!

Song, "Alleviate" by Baséput, purchase here: https://baseput.bandcamp.com/album/li..."

Trevor Pinch Interview on VICMOD

"Trevor Pinch is the co-author of the amazing book Analog Days. If you are a fan of synths, or just have a passing interest, this book is a must read. After interviewing so many people for the book I thought it would be great to interview Trevor."

You can find the full interview on VICMOD
(direct link in case you find this in the archives)

VicMod - Sunday Funday

Published on Aug 19, 2017 brassmonkey

"Just some test footage using my new camera at the monthly VicMod meetup group at MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio)"

GoFundMe Campaign for Synth Repair Workshop Fire

This one in via Ross of Vicmod:

You can find the GoFundMe here.

"My close friend Brett Maddaford, synth repairer, lost his workshop including my mint Roland MC-202 and a friends original ARP Odyssey ( plus so many more great classic synths) over last weekend.

Brett started Vicmod with me 13 years ago and has been a huge part of the worldwide synth community for 20 plus years. He is one of the nicest people you will meet and I wanted to put this out to our amazing synth community.

There is a go fund me to help Brett Maddaford rebuild his excellent synth repair service and home that was devastated in the fire."

Richard Lainhart - Upcoming Performances and Record Release

"›› Feb 27 : Performance, films and workshop at Trenton Area Festival of Electronic Arts
Richard performs live with his Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum system and gives a workshop on Digital Visual Arts. Grounds For Sculpure, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Hamilton, New Jersey www.fea-trenton.com

›› Mar 6 : Performance with films at One Thousand Pulses
Richard performs live with his Buchla 200e/Haken Continuum system at this home concert series. www.onethousandpulses.com

›› Two new disks released
Two disks of RIchard's early Moog works have been released by VICMOD Records — "The Wave-Sounding Sea" and "The Course of the River." vicmod.net"

http://www.otownmedia.com/

Make Noise Interview on VICMOD

"Make Noise are not just another euro rack modular company. With just a few modules to their name they have made quite a racket.Amazing modules, great designs and great sounds! I just had to interview Tony Make Noise Rolando."

You can find the full interview here.

Be sure to check out VICMOD for more interviews.

VICMOD Synth Night

"For a short period of time last night you could have been excused not knowing what century we were living in, what with Public Image Limited blasting out the bar speakers downstairs and upstairs, before the performance, The Human League’s Reproduction album was happily playing away followed by tracks by Morton Subotnick and Alvin Lucier. Plus the fact I could see 2 Korg MS20s a Roland MC202, EMS VCS3 and a Roland System 100M."

see the full write-up on VICMOD.


Update: more images here and video here.

Elby Design Interview on VICMOD

"The man behind Elby Designs is Laurie Biddulph. If you are interested in building synths from scratch Elby Design have heaps for you to choose from. If want to add to your euro modular system take a look at the Panther Series. If you want build a complete modular look at an ASM2. The list of things to build are huge. I took my soldering iron and PCB and chatted to Laurie."

You can find the full interview on VICMOD here.

Wein Glass - Sex and Tubes and Rock and Roll!

Published on Aug 31, 2016 Wein Glas

"From the new Weinglas album release 'All Tubes' on vicmod records: https://vicmodweinglas.bandcamp.com/a...

The album 'All Tubes' is made with lots of strange electronic instruments and synthesizers made with vacuum tubes from Metasonix, Trogotronic and Zerosum Inertia!

This track features the Tubesounds of the Metasonix S-1000 Wretch Machine!"

Radioactivity Lectures

Published on Aug 31, 2016 Wein Glas

"From the new Weinglas album release "All Tubes" on vicmod records: https://vicmodweinglas.bandcamp.com/a...

The album "All Tubes" is made with lots of strange electronic instruments and synthesizers made with vacuum tubes from Metasonix, Trogotronic and Zerosum Inertia!

This track features the Tubesounds of the Metasonix D-1000 Drum machine, KV-100 FX & S-1000 Synthesizer, the Trogotronic 676 and a lot of Zerosum Inertia ZIMM modules!"

VICMOD ENSemble LIVE @ Signal (July 2017)

Published on Aug 22, 2017 brassmonkey

"VICMOD ENSemble performing at Signal July 2017 at The Substation in Melbourne, Australia.

Performers
- Ben Willis
- Simon Birds
- Ross Healy
- Guy Taylor
- Grant Atkinson
- Adrien Harris
- Gerrard Jenner

Live Visuals
Cat Full of Ghosts
Jess Ramsey

Production / Editing
Ben Willis

Additional Filming
John Rennie
Adrien Harris
Guy Taylor
Gerrard Jenner

Special Thanks
Kevin Karlberg - Stable Music"

The Harvestman Interview on VICMOD

"The Harvestman is one of the most unique euro modular companies out there today. Expect the unexpected seems to be the rule , be it the Tyme Sefari, a bendable loop sampler/delay, the Zorlon Cannon an Atari style noise generator with random gates, or the Malgorithm the world's first voltage-controlled bitcrusher and much more.
I fired questions his way....."
You can find the full interview here. Be sure to check out the rest of VICMOD for more interviews.

Electronic Abstractions

"Robin Fox on EMS Synthi
Cor Fuhler on EMS Synthi
Cray on Buchla and computer
VICMOD Ensemble on modular gear
Williams and Hayes on VCS3 and modular"

"Tickets are now on sale for the brilliant Fringe Festival night Electronic Abstractions.
Show starts at 8pm, 21 September 2011, Bar Open Fitzroy."

via Vicmod where you'll find additional details.

DeElevator 1 - Live Avant Electronics by Simon Birds & Ross Healy

Published on Nov 29, 2016 Cray

DeElevator 1 released on Vicmod Records. December 9 2016



We are pleased to announce the new release on Vicmod Records from DeElevator. The album title is DeElevator 1.

Live avant electronics by
Simon Birds – Buchla Music Easel
Ross Healy – Rob Hordijk Blippoo Box and Euro Modular

VICMOD

Via Ross Healy:

"VICMOD (Victoria, Australia Modular Synth Builders) are looking for people interested in building modular synths to join in the phun.. You will meet once a month Saturday 11am-4pm and over time build your own modular synthesizer for next to nothing and the best thing is when its finished you can brag to your friends that you made it Smile If you have never done any soldering or electronics before, even better we will teach you. You only pay for what you make Smile.

Commencement is 3 March 07 so if you are interested in joining contact
healyr[AT]tpg.com.au Melbourne Australia"

Title link takes you to images of last years event.

Warren Burt interview on VICMOD

"Warren Burt has to be one of my favourite composers, up there with the likes of Sun Ra, Merzbow, Morton Subonick, Pierre Henry, Parmegiani etc yet his recordings have remained unheard by the masses. Even today people interested in early electronic music may have missed his recordings.Thankfully they are available via his web site http://www.warrenburt.com/"

You can find the interview on VICMOD.

Resonant - Featured Artist Series (Cray - Ross Healy)

Published on Apr 26, 2017 brassmonkey

Love the analogy to painting at the very end. It's an interesting concept - reproducing set tracks vs. exploration.

"We caught up with Ross Healy (Cray) in the first of our short interviews featuring the artists who are performing at our next Resonant show on the 7th May 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.

You can find out more about Resonant at -
https://www.facebook.com/resonantmodu...

For links relating to Cray (Ross Healy) you can find him at -
http://www.vicmod.net/
https://www.facebook.com/Vicmod-ENSem...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/17669...

Production & Editing - Ben Willis
https://www.ben-willis.com/"

Tokyo Rain by Ryou Oonishi

New release from supporting member, Vicmod Records.

"Vicmod Records is pleased to announce the second album by Ryou Oonishi titled Tokyo Rain.

This album takes you on an environmental ambient journey with minimal mechanical melodies and heart warming pads. Each track is like a postcard or moment in time with the sounds of the Japanese environment playing just as an important roll as the music.

Ryou primarily uses the Sequential Prophet 5 and the ASM Hydrasynth"

Todd Barton Interviewed on vicmod

Interview on vicmod here.

"Tell us about yourself.
Cut my analog teeth on my friend Doug Leedy’s Buchla Music Easel in the late 70’s. Couldn’t afford a ME so hocked the house and got a Serge Modular Music System in 1979. Remember going to Haight/Ashbury and picking it up from Serge. The only book/manual at the time was Allen Strange’s Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls which I ate, drank and slept with..."

Click through above for some Serge & Buchla eye candy.

Todd Barton recently released and all Buchla album here.

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