This show is coming up pretty quickly, a little over a week, so time for a thread.
I sarcastically called this “The World’s Smallest Show” elsewhere. Hope Robin Vincent doesn’t mind too much. But it looks like maybe this one could pull over its weight.
Adam Buxton (one of my favourite podcasters) is interviewing Steve Davis, after a showing of a Morton Supodnik doc. I missed the tickets for this one (friday night) as it is sold out. I’m gutted as a number of interests are overlapping in a pleasing Venn diagram way.
There is a show in the evening with Blancmange, with modular DIY workshops on the Sunday with tickets still available (just watched Sonic State and Robin Vincent was on there).
I’m also a podcat, and thought the same about worlds colliding. After missing out on synth east last year, though, I got in early and scored tickets for the Friday as well as the Saturday. Luke Sanger is performing Friday night, which I hope means a Make Noise shared system, something I intermittently lust over.
Different from their previous combo units with many different modes, Òtterley is a much simpler, but for me, a more engaging product concept.
It’s an all analog, 5 output LFO module with three CV input controls, and some knobs. The 5 LFOs are grouped as 4 that run similarly, but with variation, and one running separately.
Here’s a video done by DivKid which goes over the details and shows some ideas of how it can be used. Good vid.
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I also notice that RYK Modular is running a sale for the show, just for this weekend – 15% OFF !
Making Sound Machines who makes the Stolperbeats module, did a custom version of that with an extra large display to make it easy for people ( at shows ) to see, and perhaps understand.
After the show they took this custom gear to LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER for him to show in his Museum – a risky move in my opinion. They plan in using this also at Superbooth later.
Lots of odd sorts of strange fun is had by all in this video.
New at the show is Gullsonix who is ambitiously launching a hexagonal keyboard controller called MidiHex. ( post )
Not expecting a lot of new announcements but we’ll see, there are probably a couple like last year.
ADDED : Dreadbox will no doubt ( it was at Buchla & Friends after all ) be showing their newish Artemis synth. ( thread ) Unlikely, though possible, is that they will unveil their new keyboard synth. More likely for this at Superbooth, though it had at one point been in the cards to be a 2024 product. ( Or maybe they killed it entirely. ) Hopefully we hear some rumors on it from this show.
Just thought I would drop a quick post in last years post - I just got back for this years Synth East 2025 it was a great day, with some great performances, I look forward to going again thanks to all involved
It is a small synth event in Norwich put on by Robin Vincent and Norwich arts council I believe, it is a cool little event with live performances and quite a few Synth and Euro rack manufacturers, it’s definitely worth checking out I had a great time chatting with people and having a look around I would definitely recommend anyone to attend.
RYK has a new module as of December 2024 – Envy Machine, a quad-channel modulator, with your choice of envelopes, LFOs, random voltages and knob recording.
They plan in using this also at Superbooth later.
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