My ex partner shared me these imagines from her holiday. Fun project, loads of Eurorack manufacturers pitched in with modules.
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Aw great pics! I’ve yet to see it but know Scott and it’s been some undertaking: very much worth it by the looks!
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Amazing / ja it looks super good. The idea of the project is nice and the presentation also looks great
(Curious what it sounds like:)
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Same! I’ll report back once I check it out!
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Hi, thanks for posting. I made the sound in collaboration with Oscar Prentice-Middleton - aka Elsefly. We’ve taken a live feed from the Museum plant room and are processing the sound through the synthesiser - a social sculpture I’ve built from donations. The sculpture is titled ‘Instrument for the People of Glasgow’ (2023- 2024), while the sound piece is titled ‘Air Is Moving’ (2024 - 2025).
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Really cool! If I ever make it up to Glasgow I’m definitely gonna take a look at this!
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Hey! Welcome to the forum, nice to step in. Curious about the collab: are you also into music making / modular? Was it just nice to collaborate, or did Oscar help from having more patching knowledge for example, etc? How did you go about finding this patch/composition?
Great to see so many modular manufacturers having chipped in with modules.
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Welcome to the forum! Cool forum handle and very interesting art. Is there a sample recording, for those of us some distance from Glasgow?
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This is so cool! From years ago I have a folder on my hard drive of some jams with Oscar, him on modular, me on Octatrack. The exhibition looks awesome, congrats to both of you.
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I had the idea to build an instrument from donations, and to donate it onto a library. My first idea was to donate it to Glasgow’s Mitchell Reference Library which has ‘carell’ rooms that people can rent out, to practice an instrument.
I liked the idea of making a modular synth accessible to people. I visted Superbooth in May 2023, and handed out letter’s explaining my idea. Girts from Erica was the first to say yes (huge props) - which was a lovely moment. I’ve followed up with everyone for over a year, it’s been a really wonderful thing to communicate with so many amazing and generous people. (Not everyone said yes obv 
I ended up on Sooperbooth radio talking about the still forming project back in 2023: my bits at 1:38:
I met Lewis and Suzi Cook from the band Free Love when I got back from Superbooth last year, when I heard about their idea to build GLOSS - Glasgow Library of Synthesised Sound - the UK’s first synth library - it was an easy decision to choose GLOSS at the destination for the instrument.
That’s so great e-lectron - how do you know Oscar? Do you live here? I’ll mention this thread to him when I see him this evening - there’s a show on tonight at GLOSS here in Glasgow that we’ll attend.
To answer your question @lesstalkmoredisco - I’m an artist, interested in ideas, contexts, sound and of course music. I invited Oscar to collaborate with me as he has more experience of using modular synthesisers than me. It’s been really great fun to work with him. We’re planning to record the sound in the Museum, and I’ll see if we can post something here in future @plragde The work is a live feed from the Museum plant room, it all comes into the Eurorack system and the modules are patched together and the sound is coming out of 4 speakers and a sub - the sound is around 60% plant room signal and the rest from the modules themselves. It’s evolving, and we might alter the patch during the run of the show. It’d also be great to do events and gigs within the Museum itself - within the installation.
My hope is that I’m invited to make new projects and exhibitions in future - I could ship the instrument, inside the flight case I had built for it - and it can be exhibited in new situations and contexts. Ideally it’d lead to new connections and opportunities for new work, sound, collaborations to occur.
Really great to connect with some of you here. You can view more of my work here if you’re intersted:
Scott
P.S. cheers Ross - you, Glasgow, SubSine and many others have been a big part of the inspiration and momentum behind my idea. I’m really happy to have realised it. The show is open till Feb 2025.
I’m also going to be screening ‘Sisters with Transistors’ and ‘I Dream of Wires’ in Autumn and next year in conjunction with my show - I’m also hoping to organise a gig with GLOSS for March 2025. It’ll mark the moment the instrument is passed over to GLOSS. More info here as things develop:
Please spread the word. It’d be great if someone wrote about the project too. Perhaps I can make an instrument for XXXX (where do you live?)
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Cheers Ross.
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I’ll post more info here as things develop:
Oscar is here:
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I’m up in Glasgow today, so was able to check this out. I really enjoyed it and would definitely recommend that if you’re in the rough area that it’s worth checking out. The other pieces in the exhibition are pretty ace too… Keys (IV) and Intervals in particular.
If I was to make one slight criticism (tongue in cheek) it’s the information outside the exhibit which talks about the donated synthesizer modules… Fortunately, the information next to the exhibit rights that particular wrong and spells it correctly with an s…
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I have been standing in front of it and did listen for half an hour or so … then they threw me out because they wanted to close. However modern art / music at its best!
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Would be cool to have separate pictures for each panel, if you wouldn’t mind, image compression make those hardly readable 
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Thank you!
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Very cool! I like the presentation very much, it enanches the beauty of a wired modular system (who loves eurorack knows what I mean ). The yellow cables rising to the ceiling are a great touch, turning it into a sculpture. It reminds me sonething organic, as a neural apparate. 
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