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While friend astronaut was teaching sci fi I’ve been reading a lot of synthesis lessons trying to get a feel for how I would go about this. I thought the best thing is to work with a particular synthesiser, choosing Ichiro Toda’s Synth1. This free VST instrument is intended as a virtual Clavia Nord Lead, [...]

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Hello I’m Vincent T Grant, former astronaut. Never heard of me? I never heard of you either. I spent 800 hours in space and all the grand kids talk about is Snoop Dog this and Jiggy that. No one cares what the hell you already did, so you have to keep on finding new ways [...]

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In the 80’s J.G. Ballard wrote a short story The Secret History of World War 3. Central to the story was the increasingly senile president Ronald Reagan. (Not to be confused with a much earlier and more anarchic Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Reagan).

In the story President Reagan was so beloved by his people [...]

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Fie! Put away your cudgels and sticks rapscallion youth! Scientists do not box ears, bucket doors and antic bunks! This will not do, it is the mirror of antipodean foolhard. You will cease to bicker and attend to your betters.
Professors may dispute, this does not call upon their charges to carry the dispute to violence. [...]

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This was going to be a music class but synthesis takes a while to explain, especially when you disagree with a large amount of what is written on the subject. E.g. the thing that defines good ’subtractive’ synthesisers is the additive (wave shaping) effects of their circuitry. Which makes most subtractive tutorials ‘well meaning’ in [...]

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