Below, we culled together all the best events from 14-hour modular synth marathons to an experimental noise festival to hardcore gay raves into one handy party chart.
The hands-on philosophy means you might be twiddling the knobs of a modular synth next to famous customers like Thom Yorke, which actually happened to one lucky customer.
Previous installments have seen Blues Control jamming with zither-maestro Laraaji, Sun Araw hanging out with reggae legends the Congos, and the formation of what is possibly the world's greatest modular synth supergroup to date, Borden, Ferraro, Godin, Halo, and Lopatin.
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.
What, though, do modular synths have to offer now in an age where software has made musical creation entirely digital?
The thrill of having the LSO perform his song Sundowner while the union flag was raised at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony seems to have gone to Power's head, as the totalitarian self-regard of these bombastic modular synth symphonies owes more to Queen's One Vision than it does to Kraftwerk's Man Machine.
The result is a wired beast of a modular synth that Funk used to record the whole album.
Created in 1970 by Bob Moog, the portable analog synth was a breakthrough for musicians who couldn't afford a room full of modular synth gear, or who wanted to take these instruments on the road.
Recorded by Childs using the otherworldly modular synth he's been toting to special gigs recently, first cut "All Around And Inside," which dropped late last week, sends tropical hiss crawling up your neck.
