Saturday, June 2, 2007

Gary Chang's Wiard analog synthesizer



This instrument is the sound source of this project. An "Old School" Modular Analog Synthesizer born from influences of the Arp and Buchla Synthesizers of the past, the Wiard retains many of the idiosyncratic functions and workflow that were present on systems that were available in the 70's.

Sources of randomness such as the Woggle Bug module enable programming of music patches of a stochastic nature which can be finely tuned to yield surprisingly natural and musical sound.

Of course, part of the charm of music making on an instrument like this is the mass of patch cords and the seemingly chaotic tangle that results when deep into a patch....

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