Synth Dystopia, by Joe Paradiso

Synth Dystopia

by Joe Paradiso

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1.	Your Bleepiness 21:33	info	buy track
2.	Dark Glimmers for DoppelLab 13:14	info	buy track
3.	Plankton on a Moebius Strip 06:10	info	buy track
4.	Crowdsourcing Cacophony 18:35	info	buy track
5.	Sonic Slapstick 05:29	info	buy track
6.	May I Have Your Attention Please? 14:16	info	buy track

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This album consists mainly of noisier pieces. In most cases they were put together fairly quickly to test synth installations and get my feet wet once I set everything up. In many ways, they are sonic 'Rube Goldberg' machines, where different processes trigger other processes, but here most (excepting Track 1) don't try to make any kind of coherent tonal statement - they're more about auditory amusement and evolving sonic sculpture. Again, there is no real-time 'performing' or knob-tweaking here (apart from the crowd-sourced input in Track 4 and a few mode switches in Track 1) - all sonic variety comes intrinsically from each synthesizer patch - what you hear is what it did live. More info on the synthesizer system that I designed and used here can be found at synth.media.mit.edu and paradiso.media.mit.edu/synth.html.

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released March 20, 2020

Photo taken by Joe Paradiso in Lyon during spring, 2019.

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Joe Paradiso Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joe Paradiso has been designing, building, and using his own music synthesizers and systems since 1975. Joe is a professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he has designed many kinds of electronic musical instruments and controllers that have been used in performance worldwide. He has composed synth patches for live soundscape performances at several public venues, including Ars Electronica 2004. ... more

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