Kim Bjørn

PUSH TURN MOVE - Interface Design in Electronic Music

Scott Harper

A trip into the expansive, eclectic, and mesmerizing world of effects pedals. Examines the stompbox phenomenon as a means of creative expression and personal sound shaping. Covers over 800 pedals. Includes interviews with fifty artists and stompbox makers.

Stompbox Effects for Creative Music Making

Pedal Crush

Patch & Tweak with Moog is the ultimate resource for Moog synthesizer enthusiasts and musicians of all skill levels interested in an immersive modular synthesis experience. Opening with a foreword from acclaimed film score composer Hans Zimmer, this hardcover book by Kim Bjørn features 200 pages full of synthesizer techniques, creative patch ideas, sound design tips, professional artist interviews, in-depth discussions with Moog engineers, and a glimpse into the company's remarkable history. The book's primary focus is Moog's well-loved line of semi-modular analog synthesizers: Mother-32, DFAM, Subharmonicon, Grandmother, and Matriarch. Patch & Tweak with Moog brings readers inside the creative minds of composers, producers, and performing artists like Suzanne Ciani, Trent Reznor, Lisa Bella Donna, Paris Strother, Hannes Bieger, Stranger Things composers Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon, and Moog synthesizer co-inventor Herb Deutsch in detailed interviews featuring patching tips and tricks for musicians of all skill levels.

Patch & Tweak with Moog

The new book about modular synths, their makers, and masters. Patching secrets, performance tips, history, modules, and techniques. Enthusiasts call it ?The definite modular bible!?00PATCH & TWEAK provides an opportunity for new and experienced users to become true masters of their modular systems by exploring, explaining, and demystifying a range of topics relevant to anyone interested in modular synths or just synthesis itself.00Inspirational interviews with significant creators and major artists are highlights in this book. Learn about their systems, philosophies, patching secrets, performance tips, and passion for modular synthesis.0Besides a comprehensive introduction to synthesis and its history, the book covers systematic sections on concepts, purpose and creative possibilities of specific modules. Colorful diagrams, presentations of both popular and rare modules, semi-modular and software, as well as techniques for patching and how to get started, are provided.00Foreword by Suzanne Ciani.

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