Next week Sacha and Tom will travel to Heilbronn in southern Germany to give a series of workshops explaining analogue sound generation within the project Das Klangexperiment in the city’s public library.
To take part please send an email to: bibliothek@heilbronn.de
The workshops start at 10:00h, 12:00h and 15:00h. After the workshops everyone is invited to stay and try out different sets of electronic instruments and ask further questions.
As DigitalAnalog Festival München celebrates its 20th birthday this year we will offer a Modular Beginner Workshop on Saturday, October 16th.
The workshop starts 11:00 o’clock in Glashaus West / Gasteig. After the workshop where Sacha Ketterlin and Tom Koerting explain the basics of analogue sound creation and modular synthesis. Afterwards all participants will have the ability to try out various modular and electronic music set ups on their own.
The workshop is free of charge. To sign in please send an e-mail with your address details and phone number to ts@schneidersladen.de and subject to workshop Munich. The G2-rules apply for all visitors.
Otherwise we are present at both nights of the festival with our electronic music Spielwiese! We will carry our famous Modularkarussell and have Karl Russell with his Droner as a special guest.
Before we start the next series of workshops at SchneidersLaden, we owe you a documentation of past events – that’s what we share with you today! Below you will find three previously unpublished videos of the 2018 workshops. We start with the workshop by XAOC Devices, who are going in depth about their most mysterious, yet so powerful module – the Drezno! This video can be seen as a tutorial to the creative use of analog to digital conversion. During the last part of this video they also talk about their upcoming mega-VCO – the Odessa!
The second video is the workshop by Tom Körting presenting the Vermona module line. The small manufacturer of high-quality electronic instruments has a number of products in its portfolio, whose special features only become apparent at second glance – Tom puts them in the spotlight and gives many helpful tips and hints, which you should try out when working with these and other modules!
The third video is from the workshop with the italian manufacturer of eurorack modules – Frap Tools. Their latest module release Falistri is not yet covered in this video, but the almighty Fumana filter-bank is! Watch this video to learn more about the complex structure of this module, how to use it and what makes this module so special.
Maciek, Marcin and Tomek from Xaoc Devices were so kind to explain their more sophisticated modules to us. What initially looks like a lecture at university, is actually a quick and very good explanation of the huge and often overlooked possibilities of their Drezno and Lipsk modules. Those two go to the heart of digital-to-analog conversion (and the other way round) and are therefore perfect examples of what makes modular synthesizers interesting in the first place! You can go as deep into the shaping of sounds and modulations as possible! At the end of the workshop they also talked about their first VCO module – Odessa, an additive oscillator with great potential.
Tom Körting presented the Vermona Modular line for us in a workshop – with the twinCussion, fourMulator, quadroPOL, twinVCFilter and fourMative CONTOURS. He explores sonic and rhythmical possibilities and explains some tricks from his studio work with these fine modules. Beware: You might learn something!
Simone Fabbri from Frap Tools gave this wonderful workshop on his mighty Fumana filter-bank module in 2018. We also learn about the history of the company, how it all started and where the ideas for their modules came from. From an early modular-case-prototype to the complex filter-bank Fumana – Frap Tools has established itself as a high quality modular brand a short time.
We hope to see you soon at SchneidersLaden. Don’t buy crap!
SchneidersLaden presents SUPERBOOTH19
The regular events on Thursday evening at SchneidersLaden have developed into a permanent institution among interested sound researchers. Not only Berliners like to come frequently, SchneidersLaden welcomes guests from all over the world to every event. With a varied programme and exciting guests, you can experience over and over again how direct the contact to manufacturers and artists is during the events and how much you can learn from them. Be it a Surgeon who talks about his experiences (and with his immense experience) about his entry into eurorack-land and about how he does what and what works at live performances – or Wowa Cwejman giving insights into the development of his sublime modules and who is open for suggestions for improvements coming from the audience during the talk (who would have thought it possible that there was anything to improve in the first place).
But other events were also very well received – there was the Theremin Workshop by Carolina Eyck, one of the most renowned players worldwide – who finally showed a way to master the theremin. Or the audiovisual laser-performance of Bernhard Rasinger, who impressively demonstrated that a laser can trigger a very special fascination, with its direct and immediate intensity. To name just a few of the workshops at SchneidersLaden.
In November SchneidersLaden will continue with the last Workshopseries for this year – and we will start with a real highlight! A few days after her live performance at Berghain, Lady Starlight will open the next workshop series at SchneidersLaden. As a long-time friend and customer, Lady Starlight was already invited by SchneidersLaden to play at Berlin Atonal, at the Modular Schaltzentrale, this year. Together with Mark Verbos she presented 3 hours of uncompromising and improvised modular techno. So expect some raw, straightforward music made with machines on November 8th – starting at 7:30pm (as always) right after the regular Beginner Workshop.
The following Thursday (November 15th) it will be a bit more technical again. Tom Körting shows what can be done with the modules from Vermona. As a developer and manufacturer of synthesizers and effects units Vermona has shown for years already that they can offer uncompromisingly high quality, innovative concepts in their developments again and again. The new fourMative Contour, an ultra-flexible envelope modulation generator, has just come out. But also classics like the fourMulator still manage to tickle creative impulses. Tobi Neumenann also reported on this at his workshop in SchneidersLaden.
On November 22nd, Sacha Ketterlin from the Higher Resonance label will show what it can be like to massage your brain with a modular synthesizer consisting mainly of Macbeth Series X modules (see picture) – an atmospheric and intense ambient performance is to be expected. The following weeks event (November 29th) is dedicated to Endorphin.es – the company, not that stuff in your brain that makes you happy but the modules between your fingers that make you happy. The manufacturer of eurorack modules (with perhaps the most unusual panel designs) presents a live performance by Nicolas Bougaïeff with devices from Endorphin.es. After the performance Nicolas will be there to answer your questions. And to finish this extraordinary year of modular madness we welcome the person who started it all – Dieter Doepfer will be our guest on Saint Nicholas Day – December 6th!
So mark your calendars for the events you think are the most interesting – or just come by every Thursday have a beer with us and learn something about our most favorite machine – the synthesizer.
And if you are only about to start your modular journey or just want to know what the hell I am talking about -> join our Modular Synthesizer Beginner Workshops! -> Every Thursday 6pm at SchneidersLaden!
November – December:
We happily announce that our special guest for this THURSDAYS workshop is iftah from skinnerbox. They just relased an improved version of their time and timbre 2.0 an addition to max4live …coming along with some very special tools allowing you to cv control your DAW. More about it in the workshop.
Please register for participation and write an email tothomas alias tc@schneidersladen.de, places are limited. Thursday 23rd of june, 6pm: SchneidersLaden showroom.
Once for starters and once for runaways we will have monthly workshops about eurorack and synthesizer topics inside SchneidersLaden from now on. They will always start at 6pm and your admission per mail is more than welcome.
On September, 18th – still a while – there will be a workshop for runaways about the modular world of tiptop audio by Kostya Gervis held in berlin kreuzberg for tiptop audio. Expecting a lot of interested modular freaks we will make it an educational evening event starting at 7 pm already at Centralmusic on Oranienstrasse for up to 20 guests (Admission is free once you registered your participation here). For Q & A with Kostya directly he will be in addtion available at Schneidersladen Friday afternoon Sept, 19th, where finally all complains can be cleared and products could be ordered.
For those who did NOT get a ticked we run the radio frequency 95,2 Mhz at Kottbusser Tor now, so cruise your car around the cycle, dont count the rounds and listen to Charles Cohen and Wolfgang Seidel playing LIVE in Schneidersladen. Non freezing pedestriants could do the same with a radio in front our backdoor entry watching the event thru the glass from outdoors.
The CTM workshop with Charles Cohen now (Thusday, 30st, 8pm) will be streaming live on this internet portal here. (if you have to type it to your browser, use.. http://stream.p-node.org/mobile3.mp3 ) starting at 8 o’clock.
A visual documentation will be released later on.
On Berlins 3rd edition of the festival for drum’n’bass, breakcore, experimental sounds and uncommon techno we will have our very last workshop this year on saturday, November 2nd with a few modular systems. The Festival Burn the Machine will happen in the Subland, Lichtenberg and we will make it in two parts, so .. if you want to go deeper into it, go there if you are around.
Grey sky is a good motivation to start a new indoor theme: If you want to learn more about modular stuff or electronic music participate in workshops: Apart from our constantly ongoing workshop every afternoon in kreuzberg there are some in London, next one on 29th this month.
Also on June, 29th there will be one in Berlin with Tom Körting who will teach you making weird sounds on our bigger system on an event in ..Friedrichshain (?). Another bigger system will be show on that DJ-meeting in Dortmund, Westfalenhalle (?), so there are possibilities enough these days.
we will keep you informed with details here about a week before the dates (!).
.. btw .. if you really want to go deeper with soldering things yourselves, Befaco is offering meetings for such in Berlin sometimes, please check their site.
At Rockshop Karlsruhe (Germany Southwest) there will be a synthesizer day this Thursday. Together with Dieter Doepfer on the A-100 there will be Patrick Detampel explaining all the possible additions such as Midi and Alyseum, the Manikin Schrittmacher, a Sherman Filterbank, Vermonas FourMulator and more.
So if you are around there, get this rare chance for first hands most competent information now.
Leaf Audio who once made some DIY workshop on really smart little synths in a breadbox (see pic) is now making a workshop designing drumsounds on a curetronic modular system. Could be a good start, nice and interesting but it will happen in the SAE and if you want to know more about modular drums, you are very welcome to play on one of our systems in schneidersladen afterwards ..
Do the DingDong is the first out of four workshops that we will celebrate in SchneidersLaden until summer has come. Please join us and make your choice now, seats are limited as always, further infos on SchneidersBuero!
We will go ahead making workshops in our showroom this year. Now we have released the dates over the mainpage at SchneidersBuero. Looking forward meeting you here or there.
..will be held again in Schneidersladen, Berlin this year to explain the background or technical things to make better music. Please see an overview of how brilliant it has been in 2009 and stay tuned here for our next dates coming soon.
