If you're going out partying and socializing everyday, you're not going to learn how to program some fucking stupid modular synths that takes 16 weeks to get an unusable sound out of.
With certain kinds of mathematically dense modular synth music, like that of Brooklyn producer Datach'i, the sheer lushness of detail makes one feel like they can sense the moving parts of the process in an unusually direct way.
This is some sort of circuit bent synth that can create chaotic music.
They carry the newest gear from bigger brands like Elektron and Roland, as well as from smaller upstart companies like Hyve, plus they've cemented themselves in the local scene through producing events that feature modular synth rigs run through quadrophonic sound systems.
In the words of L.A. musician M. Geddes Gengras, hovering over one of the brand new, vintage-inspired Moog modular synths, "I know that I could spend years with this thing and never run out of sounds".
Venetian Snares is no stranger to modular synths himself he says that his setup is "almost like a bandmate, but you somehow have access to their neural network".
He then used that vinyl along with a custom built modular synth to create A Color Map of the Sun.
To create the video, Konpyuta used a modular synth they built to warp the visuals, which move back and forth between mostly abstract images that look almost 3D-scanned, and then images of a naked man who looks like he is living in a solarized space designed by Man Ray.
Ball points out that you have to work hard to get any noise at all out of a modular synth.
Later this year, Roland will start selling the System-500, its first modular synth for 25 years.
