Making Generative Music With Voltage Modular - Volume 2

This e-book crosses – breaks, destroys - all borders one can possibly imagine when thinking of and about generative music and modular synths.

The stats first:

The book is written! Completely!It is done!

The date of publishing, 15th November, is definite now.

The book has got 333 pages,there are 393 pictures and graphics in the book, and there are 141 embedded videos.

The number of patches – which are part of the download – has grown to 173 all in all.

But there´s more this time:

It´s been a while since my last report. It´s a health matter, which is to blame. I´m undergoing a quite brutal chemical treatment. It seems, that some insect bit me a rather long time ago, because a fairly advanced stage of Boreliosis has been diagnosed. The doctors don´t believe me that I hadn´t sensed any problems before. I don´t care.

I´ve nearly finished chapter 1, but even if it is not completely finished yet I´ve already started producing the patches and videos and graphics of chapter 2. I to be able to finish chapter 1 I need a special module, a module which doesn´t exist yet – but one of the great developers for Voltage modular is already working on it. I´m not going to reveal more here – not yet.

Making the patch which is drafted in the photograph has cost me a lot of nerves (you can see it: I scrumpled the paper and threw it away in an attack of “desperation” - but the night after I got the right idea how to solve the problem). I wonder whether you´ll discover the patch in the book in November....

When a patch grows into a certain complexity it seems to cross a kind of border and becomes a living thing that has its own mind and will.

Another kind of book progress report:

Writing these really comprehensive books containing some hundreds of pages can get quite exhausting sometimes. Especially with these tropical temperatures and this high Ozone levels that we have here in the west of the Czech republic right now. That´s what do I do to stay fit:

The picture shows the creation of a patch. I always sketch larger patches on paper first.

The Book has got 35 pages by now, 23 videos as made, 23 patches are finished, and 39 pictures, graphics and illustration are made.

The serious work on Volume 2 of “Making Generative Music With Voltage Modular” has begun. Since publishing Volume 1 in March 2024 I´ve been collecting ideas and thoughts concerning Volume 2.