#west coast synthesis

[vizreef]

Buchla Touché // Analog - Digital Hybrid Synth (US, 1978)

[cygnusred]

An instrument that plays itself… West Coast/Generative Modular synthesis aka the “krell” patch.

[thedaveandkimmershow]

One of the unexpected gifts of Linzy being a professional musician is getting to hang out with musicians in the local music community because they really do show up to support each other at gigs. 

That time Linzy performed a songwriter's retrospective with two other artists at the Blue Moon Tavern in the U District?

Everyone in Midnight High showed up. Linzy had the most applause that night because she had more friends there.

That time she was playing that winery gig at the end of a long week?

Some friends from another band showed up to encourage her and make her laugh.

When the missus 'n I are around, we get to talk some with these musicians. Sometimes the ones who're playing the gig, sometimes the ones who are there to support them. Either way, the conversations never disappoint. Maybe we're talking musical influences. Maybe it's the different bands and sometimes different genres in which they play. Maybe it's about live stage production and how they craft their specific sound if they have a specific sound. Maybe it's how they started and where they are now. And so on.

The most interesting of these conversations to date is the one in which I learned about East Coast versus West Coast synthesis.

Ummm What???

Okay synthesizers.

Why?

Because we were talking about synths from the eighties. We were talking John Carpenter (the director who also created music soundtracks for his movies), eighties movie soundtracks, and the first synthesizer I bought that I bought right before MIDI hit the market and was built into every keyboard there was... whereas I got a good deal but my synth couldn't talk to anything least of all a computer such as they were at the time.

I brought up Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and how the synth that was used didn't have a keyboard at all. It was all modules and knobs and patch chords. Which is how I was introduced to the East Coast versus West Coast concepts of synthesizer design.

East Coast synths were designed and crafted by Bob Moog and featured keyboards, piano keys, for input. His designs and mods were heavily influenced by conversations he had with musicians. West Coast synthesis, on the other hand, were spearheaded by Don Buchla, bringing a more experimental approach to making music. There was no keyboard to play. Only switches and knobs and patch chords to adjust and adjust and adjust.

Don't get me wrong. Moog's synth was also fashioned with switches and knobs and patch chords. But at least there was a keyboard in there somewhere.

That's kind of how far we got into the discussion about synths before veering off into Peter Gabriel then Genesis then Phil Collins then have you heard the latest Peter Gabriel album? Just came out. He promoted it with a competition held in partnership with Stability AI so there are a ton of AI videos for his current songs out there. The winning entry blew my mind. It even features Peter Gabriel as a young man singing the words to his brand. new. song.

And so on.

Anyway, it's these conversations that I consider to be unexpected gifts. Made possible to us because Linzy's a professional musician and these are her friends.

😁😁😁

[mephistos-executioners]

The Devil's Housecat (Felicus daemonious) is a species living on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd layer of Satan's Eye (formerly, the planet Earth.) They are an evolved form of the Felis genus. They've become and intellectual species, creating societies and jobs within their populations. They are defined by having; 1. A minimum of four quadrupedal limbs. 1a. A minimum of two of these limbs must be feline. 1b. All feline limbs must have retractable claws. 2. A minimum of two ears (though they may not be feline). 3. A minimum of two eyes. 4. A carnivorous nature, if they consume the flesh of other organisms. 5. The ability to purr. There are three different ways housecats obtain energy. 1. "Consumption" -> Gaining energy by consuming the flesh of other organisms. 2. "Synthesis" -> Gaining energy through photosynthesis through the skin or body part(s). 3. "Absorption" -> Gaining energy through absorption of other organisms matter by use of an appendage. Housecat size ranges greatly. A housecat can be anywhere between 81-685 cm (2'8-22'5 feet) in height, measured to the shoulder. ------- On the 1st layer, the largest and oldest official group of Devil's Housecat are called Mephisto's Executioners. They have existed since 1772, formed by Mephisto himself. This group originated as a way to imprison and profit off of less-advanced housecats. He did this to expand his territory and support himself using their skills. After Mephisto's disappearance and his era's end, the group became more refined and put a collection of rules in place that could not be changed. Executioner Law

1: Thou shall not bring slavery into law, nor exploit feeble-minded Housecats for personal gain. 2: The peoples may challenge their superiors if they are deemed inept.  3: Thou shall not deny the wishes of a Housecat seeking refuge. 4: If threatened, thou and the peoples may defend themselves.  5: The Executioners may never fall, even if it falls upon the shoulders of a worm to uphold the Housecat’s existence. The group lives on the west coast of the Lake of Fire. They house themselves in an abandoned Fire-breathing parasite wasp (Ignispiratio parasitus) nest– ie, the charred & mummified remains of a super-mammoth (height over 100 ft) unidentified mammal. Due to the mummification, this exact species has not been able to be identified. There are two main entrances, with the rest of their home existing within the beast's eaten-out organs and circulatory system. They call their home Ignis’ Domain. There are a collection of other dens located around their territory, called Ignis’ Dens, if a housecat needs to house themselves temporarily and cannot reach the domain. Their hierarchical system has evolved and changed numerous times throughout the years since Mephisto's reign. There are no laws against leaders changing this system, or adding, removing or changing laws (excluding the Executioner Law).

------ hello ! i am arthur (he/it/she). the devil's housecat is something i made up on a whim so that i could draw some monster-esc designs. i made this blog so that i could document the designs/characters/work i've done for the species !!!! yahoo !!! my main blog is @exocynraku

[mariacallous]

At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics. For three centuries, the city attracted scholars, lawyers, craftsmen, and religious luminaries, becoming a true cultural and political capital. Bringing this extraordinary history marvelously to life, Judith Herrin rewrites the history of East and West in the Mediterranean world before the rise of Islam and shows how, thanks to Byzantine influence, Ravenna played a crucial role in the development of medieval Christendom.

Drawing on deep, original research, Herrin tells the personal stories of Ravenna while setting them in a sweeping synthesis of Mediterranean and Christian history. She narrates the lives of the Empress Galla Placidia and the Gothic king Theoderic and describes the achievements of an amazing cosmographer and a doctor who revived Greek medical knowledge in Italy, demolishing the idea that the West just descended into the medieval “Dark Ages.”

Beautifully illustrated and drawing on the latest archaeological findings, this monumental book provides a bold new interpretation of Ravenna’s lasting influence on the culture of Europe and the West.

[ekssperimental]

Just out; 8 Band Filter/Shifter/Shaper

Inspired by the free-spirited ethos of early synthesis pioneers, this Rack Extension invites you to sculpt and manipulate sound in ways that were once the exclusive domain of analog wizards.

8 Band Filter/Shifter/Shaper is not just an simple filter effect – it’s a comprehensive toolset. Each of its 8 bands features a customizable bandpass filter with a choice between 6dB/Oct or 12dB/Oct slope, free or quantized filter frequency, an envelope follower, a frequency shifter and a waveshaper, offering both single and triple sinewave shaping options.

The robust modulation capabilities are fueled by Reason’s CV signal system, providing endless possibilities for dynamic control. Save and recall your sonic experiments with ease using the patch-saving functionality.

Designed for exploration, the 8 Band F/S/S draws inspiration from West Coast modular synthesizers, echoing the aesthetics in a great looking GUI. It invites you to experiment with routing, pushing the boundaries of timbral possibilities reminiscent of Californian synthesis pioneers.

[ringmodulation]

east coast synthesis and west coast synthesis are yuri

[lilliesforya]

Mid September ~

Today I understood something but I don’t know what

I’ve been helping the students prepare for their speech contest for the past week. Sometimes they understand my corrections but usually the teacher translates for them. We all rotate the privilege of understanding someone speak. However, every so often I understand something beyond inferred information and context clues. I’ll understand what’s being said in Japanese but won’t be able to translate it fully. It is just understanding appearing in my head. It reminds me of Spanish class in high school. Some stuff I translated in my head and other phrases and sentences I just understood. It would happen way more in Spanish than in Japanese but the random bits of understanding Japanese help lighten the mental load of never knowing fully what’s going on. I remember when it happened in speech contest practice because it was the first time I noticed it.

9/14 The kids did well in the contest but I wish I could have seen them perform. Some ALTs are allowed to go to the contest but not my city. I did get to see them leave for the contest and I must have scared them a little when I said “good luck!” in English. Some of the material was unfairly hard for some of them so as much as I could help with pronunciation, it may still sound awkward. One kid had a poem and I was like even an American student your age would have trouble performing that effectively, so don't feel bad.

Next week, some of the teachers are taking a group of the older students to their sister city in America. I have never been to that part of America so I'm excited to hear what they think of it. I saw the schedule and it looks very packed, so I hope they can enjoy some free time. I told the class with the students to visit Walmart if they really wanted to experience America and I was only half joking. (I was being sarcastic but mostly talking to myself. I'm sure no one heard.) I wish they were visiting a more diverse area of America, so they could see different people and hear different languages. That sort of synthesis of cultures makes America really distinctive, especially in comparison to Japan. I'm hoping at the very least they encounter Spanish once or see a non-white person. I told them to take many pictures! I’m awful at recording memories with images and I regret it only afterwards. America is thought of as one collective country here because that's what most other countries are but its not easy to generalize. When people ask me questions I'm very quick to specify on the east coast, or in my state, or in my general area.. etc, because I have no idea about the other places in America. I'm from the east coast, and some of the other jets are from the midwest, and west coast. There are few questions you could ask all of us where the answer would be the same. Just today, I told the kids in one class that I liked fall because the weather gets cooler. They were younger so I said America (and nowhere specific) but that statement isn't true for like half the country. It's only half true now for my hometown too with global warming and all.

Articles and Prepositions

I haven't been in school for long. Barely a month at that. But something I have noticed is the absence of articles and prepositions when the students speak or write English. This makes sense- there aren't articles in Japanese and their prepositions (particles) serve a different purpose in the sentence structure. Sometimes two different prepositions are translated the same way/ non distinctive ways in Japanese. While I'm sure there are ways to get specific, because Japanese is so contextual and it just doesn't have the same amount of words English does (to mean basically the same things) it is really hard for students to understand. I don't blame them, if someone told me that one word in my native language had maybe 5 different translatable words depending on the specific sentence in English, I'd be pressed. Also, most English prepositions are like either 1 of 2 particles. There's always 5 ways to say something in English for every 1 way to say it in Japanese. It goes both ways though. Sometimes, I don't know how to say something in Japanese because I'm stuck on a specific word and it ends up that the word I needed is actually a word I knew- I was just thinking too specifically about what I was trying to say. I also tend to express myself with metaphors, similes, and other flowery language that isn't accessible to me in Japanese. And sarcasm. It is like going to war but war is communication and I have no ammo. The gun by itself doesn't do anything.

[taperwolf]

So I'm working on another Eurorack module, definitely the most complicated and ambitious one I've attempted. I'm starting with a proven circuit, and the modifications I'm making are extant in others' versions — but since I don't know exactly how they made those mods, I'm muddling through with it. It doesn't help that the circuit is mostly analog, and that it's got History, and that it's really weird to start with.

The circuit itself goes back to the 1970s, and the progenitor of West Coast Synthesis, Buchla, in the form of their module 266, the Source of Uncertainty. As the name suggests, it's all about noise and randomness, with different colors of noise and different kinds of random voltages to modulate other circuits. The idea was reworked in the 1990s by Grant Richter for his modular company, Wiard. He came up with a three-part design: a clock generator, a system that uses that clock to generate three kinds of random control voltages, and a set of audio voices based on those random voltages. He called this the Wogglebug, named after the character from the Oz books. He published the circuit for this, and a revised version with some extra bells and whistles is made by Make Noise as the Richter Wogglebug; a close variant of the Wiard module was made as a DIY kit by Erica Synths, who then redesigned it to be their Swamp module, also a DIY kit. When they stopped making the Swamp a few years ago, they released the design as open source, and that's my starting point.

On the Swamp, the clock controls how often the sample and hold, well, holds; you can affect the internal clock rate via the Rate knob or by control voltage (attenuated by the Rate CV knob), or you can plug in an external clock. The Stepped CV Is just the bare sample and hold, steady random voltages until the next clock. Smooth CV is that but with a slope between the steps — that signal but smoothed out. The Smooth Range knob affects how quickly that slope can change; at slower settings it'll not quite get to the destination if it's too big a jump. The Swamp CV does what the other modules called "Woggling" — it heads for the desired voltage but it overshoots, it swoops around while homing in on the Stepped voltage. The Tone and the Swamp outputs are audio following the Stepped CV and the Swamp CV — each can be either a square wave or a triangle wave, selectable by the switches — and the two are combined via ring mod at the Ring output. If you plug an external audio signal in, it overrides the Tone signal to be RM'ed with the Swamp.

There are a couple of details of the Swamp's design I have to work around to start. First, the design depends on vactrols — encapsulated devices where an LED illuminates a light-dependant resistor — which can be difficult to get these days, particularly in the one-LED-and-two-LDR version that one of them must be. I think I have that sorted out. The second bit is the sample-and-hold chip it uses. The original used the LF398 monolithic S&H chip, but the Swamp instead switched that out for the K1100CK2, the Eastern-bloc S&H chip, which is very easy for a Latvian company like Erica to get but is more difficult to find for an American. So I've revised the circuit to swap the LF398 back in, using the original Wogglebug circuit as my guide.

The other tricky parts with my design process are including the modifications that Make Noise introduced. There are three: a manual pushbutton to hold a voltage in place, an output for the 'bursts' of random gates, and an alternate input to the sample and hold circuit, which you can crossfade with the internal source. The button is created by just shorting the "Hold" pin on the chip to ground, so that's easy enough. The output for "Bursts" just needed a jack, though i may add a buffer so that it doesn't affect the internals. But the alternate S&H signal source took some doing; I think I've settled on a three-opamp crossfade circuit that Tom Wiltshire of Electric Druid posted.

Of course, now that I've figured out the circuit and schematics, the hard part is going to be laying out the circuit boards. It's going to be a pretty big module spread across two different boards — one for the seven pots, 12 jacks, two switches, and single pushbutton, and one for the guts of the circuit proper — plus a front panel with all its labels and design elements. It's always a little tricky taking a design from schematic to PCB layout, and this one's penchant for odd feedback loops is going to make things even more exciting.

For what it's worth, I'm planning on calling this module the Unsound Methodology HMTE, because the original Oz character (eventually the head of Oz's university) introduced himself as H.M. Wogglebug, T.E.: Highly Magnified Wogglebug, Thoroughly Educated.

[endrusmithreal]

Cryolite Price Trends: A Key Indicator for Market Dynamics

Cryolite (Na3AlF6) is a mineral chemically known as Sodium Hexafluoroaluminate. It occurs as a colorless, white reddish to gray-black prismatic monoclinic, glassy solid crystal, which is rare in nature and is found in the depositions of Ivittuut on the west coast of Greenland. The compound is soluble in Aluminium Chloride solution and sulfuric acid with the evolution of Hydrofluoric acid, which is toxic in nature. However, the compound is not soluble in water.

Cryolite is used in the industrial manufacturing of metals such as aluminium and has many other metallurgical applications. The texture and look of the compound are used in the production of glass and ceramics as a coating over the products, and it has vast applications in different market sectors.

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Cryolite has various applications in the metallurgical industries. It acts as a solvent for bauxite, for the electrolytic production of aluminium on a large scale where it gradually reduces alumina to aluminium by the Hall-Heroult Process. It helps in manufacturing aluminium wastes, aluminization of steel and in welding industries, as well.

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Solvay

Fluorsid

Do-Fluoride Chemicals

Nantong Jinxing Fluorides Chemical

Jiangsu Xintai Material Technology

Shanghai Yixin Chemical

Jiangxi Qucheng Chemical

Triveni Chemical

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[georgethechen]

Zum celebrates its 25th anniversary as a record label with a series of shows on the West Coast. On Saturday, Dec 2, Oakland California’s renovated Thee Stork Club will host the Bay Area return of GROWING after thirteen years away! 

They will be joined by synth-doom act My Heart, an Inverted Flame, New York’s Somnambulists (solo project of Warren Ng), and Marshall Trammell & Paul Costuros Duo). DJ Melanie Marie will also be spinning and providing live visuals.

The New York/Olympia duo GROWING has a storied history of releases on Kranky and Silver Current and recent live and recorded collaborations with acclaimed harpist Mary Lattimore. GROWING released a CD EP with Zum in 2005 (a split with Mark Evan Burden) and contributed a track to the recent Zum Audio Volume 5 double-CD compilation. 

My Heart, an Inverted Flame played their second-ever show (their first was a 2022 Zum showcase at Noise Pop) after a few years of recording for Zum and Deathbomb Arc. The San Francisco/Ashland, Oregon duo delivers heavy doom drones using only synthesizers and percussion. Members Andee Connors (A Minor Forest, Common Eider, King Eider, aQuarius Records) and Marc Kate (I Am Spoonbender, Driftloss) also released a collaboration single with viral TikTok star Banshee. The Wire magazine called them “Stars of the Lid with a bad fucking attitude.”

Marshall Trammell (Music Research Strategies) & Paul Costuros are longtime Bay Area improvisers who convened for Trammell’s six-month residency at The San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum “For Friends” ending in early 2022. Their first recorded material as this Duo is documented in the track “Blue Cube” on Zum Audio Vol. 5. Trammell has toured extensively co-founder and former percussion of the Oakland-based Black Spirituals and currently as solo performer Music Research Strategies or the percussion in In Defense of Memory and White People Killed Them. Costuros has been in the projects Total Shutdown, Death Sentence: Panda!, The Fisticuffs Bluff, Murder Murder, and Burmese.

Somnambulists is Brooklyn-based Warren Ng. He has released solo material under the moniker Somnambulists and in the group This Invitation. Ng has been involved in collaborative film + live score performance works presented at experimental film festivals and exhibitions in New York and San Francisco including an expanded cinema series co-presented by the Microscope Gallery & The Whitney Museum (2016); Mono No Aware IX and X (2015 & 2016); and the SF Cinematheque's Crossroads 2016 & 2018 (presented at the SFMOMA). He has performed at Che Chen’s (75 Dollar Bill) Fire Over Heaven concert series in New York and this is his first appearance back in Oakland since 2019. This show will also be the album release for the new Somnambulists cassette Ascending Planes on Zum.

DJ Bio:

Melanie Marie is a visual artist and creative coder based in Oakland. Initially working with installations centered around Macintosh SE & SE/30 computers, she is now primarily focused on live coding visual synthesis in collaboration with live musicians. Melanie is a host of Transformations Radio and Beloved Radio. Her work and music sets focus on the relationships between music and imagery.

ZUM BIO:

Siblings Yvonne (Xiu Xiu) and George Chen (Common Eider, King Eider, KIT) launched the Zum Audio compilation series (including acts like Duster, Modest Mouse, Deerhoof, Yellow Swans, Zach Hill) in 1998. Over the ensuing decades, the label has released indie emo pioneers Nuzzle, Canadian noiseniks AIDS Wolf, and even Chen’s own stand-up comedy EP.

To mark this anniversary, the latest Zum Audio Vol 5 was released in a double CD format as well as on digital. George Chen set out to survey present-day experimental electronics, drones, hardcore, and mutant pop.

LINKS

ZUM - linktr.ee/zumaudio

GROWING -https://growing-music.bandcamp.com

Marshall Trammell -https://www.musicresearchstrategies.info

Paul Costuros -https://www.discogs.com/artist/310473-Paul-Costuros

Somnambulists -somnambulistsmusic.bandcamp.com

My Heart, an Inverted Flame -https://myheartaninvertedflame.com

Melanie Marie -https://projectvisualsensation.com

[prismglassseo]

Discover the Elegance of Metal and Glass: Mumbai's Premier Metal Glass Shop

Mumbai, the full of life metropolis on India's west coast, is recognized for its animated culture, varied planning, and a wealthy developed scene. Amidst the cities manhandle and hustle and bustle lays a hidden gem that adds a stroke of difficulty and modernity to Mumbai's skyline – the Metal Glass Shop. In this blog, we will see the sights the world of metal and glass in Mumbai, showcasing the craftsmanship and modernization of the city's head of management metal and glass shops.

The Art of Metalwork in Mumbai:

Metal cock-and-bull story has rich times gone by in Mumbai, with artisans and craftsmen passing down their skills from beginning to end generation.

Mumbai's metal shops offer a wide range of military, from custom ironwork to structural steel fabrication.

See the sights the complicated designs and functional artistry that Mumbai's metalworkers transport to life inside homes, profitable seats, and community structures.

The Beauty of Glass:

Glass is not simply a practical material; it is a work of art in itself. Discover the world of glass craftsmanship in Mumbai.

Mumbai's glass shops concentrate in custom glasswork, together with stained glass, glass facade, and pleasing to the eye glass features.

Learn how glass enhances architectural aesthetics and creates eye-catching interiors in homes and business across the city.

Metal and Glass Fusion:

One of the most fascinating aspects of Mumbai's metal glass shops is the synthesis of these two materials.

See the sights the pioneering applications of metal and glass together, from striking staircases and railings to breathtaking glass bridges and canopies.

See how the combination of strength and honesty can redefine spaces in the city.

Customized Solutions for Mumbai's Urban Landscape:

Mumbai's only one of its kind urban challenge often require dedicated solutions, and metal and glass shops rise to the occasion.

Learn how these shops address issue like noise contamination, security, and typical weather control with their commissioned creations.

Learn about the sustainable practices in employment in metal and glass fabrication to reduce the city's ecological footprint.

Inspirational Projects and Case Studies:

Get inspired by some of the most iconic metal and glass projects in Mumbai.

Explore the architectural wonders that have been brought to life by the city's talented craftsmen.

From iconic skyscrapers to cozy residential spaces, determine how metal and glass change the urban countryside.

Conclusion:

Mumbai's Metal Lead Stain Glass is not just businesses; they are the architect of modernity, the curators of elegance, and the guardian of innovation in this dynamic city. Whether you're a proprietor looking to add a stroke of lavishness to your space or a draftswoman seeking to redefine the skyline, Mumbai's head of state metal glass shops have the skills, skill, and inspiration to make your vision a reality. Embrace the prettiness of metal and glass, and watch as they put on a pedestal Mumbai's structural design to new heights.

Source link:- https://prismglassmumbai.blogspot.com/2023/10/discover-elegance-of-metal-and-glass.html

[drmlab]

One of the first things about modular synthesis that interested me when I started last year was complex oscillators. Around the new year, I got a Doepfer slimline dual VCA to use my 2HP SEM oscillator to modulate my Disting mk4 in thru-zero VCO mode. But I didn't get around to doing that until I picked up the WMD C4RBN, which has a wavefolding mode.

Once I had a "proper" West Coast topology, I got around to patching together a complex oscillator. It is a hoot. In the middle of experimenting last month, I dug what the synth was doing and busted out the recorder and grabbed a recording before I wiggled a knob.

In this recording, much of the variation is due to phases in the feedback, I would let it run for a while. When I got bored with a pattern, I'd tweak one of the VCAs to slightly change the cross-modulation between the oscillators.

What I recorded was too long for Tumblr's 10MB limit on audio uploads, so I made a little graphic and uploaded it as a video. I may do this more in the future because what I like about patching the modular synth is finding a pattern to inhabit for a while and then make subtle changes. Unless I want to reduce my audio files with a low bitrate, Tumblr's limit make it difficult to share those kinds of recordings.

[mariacallous]

At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics. For three centuries, the city attracted scholars, lawyers, craftsmen, and religious luminaries, becoming a true cultural and political capital. Bringing this extraordinary history marvelously to life, Judith Herrin rewrites the history of East and West in the Mediterranean world before the rise of Islam and shows how, thanks to Byzantine influence, Ravenna played a crucial role in the development of medieval Christendom.

Drawing on deep, original research, Herrin tells the personal stories of Ravenna while setting them in a sweeping synthesis of Mediterranean and Christian history. She narrates the lives of the Empress Galla Placidia and the Gothic king Theoderic and describes the achievements of an amazing cosmographer and a doctor who revived Greek medical knowledge in Italy, demolishing the idea that the West just descended into the medieval “Dark Ages.”

Beautifully illustrated and drawing on the latest archaeological findings, this monumental book provides a bold new interpretation of Ravenna’s lasting influence on the culture of Europe and the West.

[xtruss]

Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski is flanked by federal agents as he is led to a car from the federal courthouse in Helena, Montana, on 4 April 1996. Photograph: John Youngbear/AP

Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, 81, Dies in US Prison Cell

Harvard-educated Mathematician waged 17-year bombing campaign from isolated shack in Montana wilderness

— Edward Helmore and Associated Press | Saturday 10 June 2023

Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died on Saturday. He was 81.

Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told the Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early on Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8am, she said. A cause of death was not immediately known.

Before his transfer to the prison medical facility, he had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.

Years before the September 11 attacks and the anthrax mailing, the Unabomber’s deadly homemade bombs changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes, even virtually shutting down air travel on the west coast in July 1995.

He forced the Washington Post, in conjunction with the New York Times, to make the agonizing decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, Industrial Society and Its Future, which claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation.

“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race,” the first line read.

It was reviewed by mainstream publications, with the New York Times’ environmental writer Kirkpatrick Sale venturing that the Unabomber “is a rational man and his principal beliefs are, if hardly mainstream, entirely reasonable”.

Ted Kaczynski, from a 1962 Harvard yearbook. Photograph: Harvard University/Associated Press

But it led to his undoing. Kaczynski’s brother David and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, recognized the treatise’s tone and tipped off the FBI, which had been searching for the “Unabomber” for years in nation’s longest, costliest manhunt.

Authorities in April 1996 found him in a 10-by-14ft (3-by-4-meter) plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, that was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosive ingredients and two completed bombs.

But Kaczynski, who was initially regarded by some as a radical environmentalist, was primarily an anti-technologist. Academics judged his “manifesto” as a synthesis of the work of others: the French philosopher Jacques Ellul, British zoologist Desmond Morris and American psychologist Martin Seligman.

But once revealed as a wild-eyed hermit with long hair and beard who weathered Montana winters in a one-room shack, Kaczynski struck many as more of a pathetic loner than romantic antihero.

Even in his own journals, Kaczynski came across as not a committed revolutionary, but a vengeful hermit driven by petty grievances.

“I certainly don’t claim to be an altruist or to be acting for the ‘good’ (whatever that is) of the human race,” he wrote on 6 April 1971. “I act merely from a desire for revenge.”

Kaczynski hated the idea of being viewed as mentally ill and when his lawyers attempted to present an insanity defense, he tried to fire them. When that failed, he tried to hang himself with his underwear.

Kaczynski eventually pleaded guilty rather than let his defense team proceed with an insanity defense.

David Kaczynski, left, and his older brother Theodore John Kaczynski, center, in a sandbox with neighbors. Photograph: AP

“I’m confident that I’m sane,” Kaczynski told Time magazine in 1999. “I don’t get delusions and so forth.”

Ted Kaczynski was born on 22 May 1942, in Chicago, the son of second-generation Polish Catholics – a sausage-maker and a homemaker. He played the trombone in the school band, collected coins and skipped the sixth and 11th grades.

Kaczynski had skipped two grades to attend Harvard at age 16 and had published papers in prestigious mathematics journals. His explosives were carefully tested and came in meticulously handcrafted wooden boxes sanded to remove possible fingerprints. Later bombs bore the signature “FC” for “Freedom Club”.

The FBI called him the “Unabomber” because his early targets seemed to be universities and airlines. An altitude-triggered bomb he mailed in 1979 went off as planned onboard an American Airlines flight; a dozen people onboard suffered from smoke inhalation.

Kaczynski killed computer rental store owner Hugh Scrutton, advertising executive Thomas Mosser and timber industry lobbyist Gilbert Murray. California geneticist Charles Epstein and Yale University computer expert David Gelernter were maimed by bombs two days apart in June 1993.

Mosser was killed in his North Caldwell, New Jersey, home on 10 December 1994, a day he was supposed to be picking out a Christmas tree with his family. His wife, Susan, found him grievously wounded by a barrage of razor blades, pipes and nails.

“He was moaning very softly,” she said at Kaczynski’s 1998 sentencing. “The fingers on his right hand were dangling. I held his left hand. I told him help was coming. I told him I loved him.”

When Kaczynski stepped up his bombs and letters to newspapers and scientists in 1995, experts speculated the “Unabomber” was jealous of the attention being paid to the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

A threat to blow up a plane out of Los Angeles before the end of the Fourth of July weekend threw air travel and mail delivery into chaos. The Unabomber later claimed it was a “prank”.

The Washington Post printed the Unabomber’s manifesto at the urging of federal authorities, after the bomber said he would desist from terrorism if a national publication published his treatise.

Patrik had had a disturbing feeling about her brother-in-law even before seeing the manifesto and eventually persuaded her husband to read a copy at the library. After two months of arguments, they took some of Ted Kaczynski’s letters to Patrik’s childhood friend Susan Swanson, a private investigator in Chicago.

Swanson in turn passed them along to former FBI behavior science expert Clint Van Zandt, whose analysts said whoever wrote them had also probably written the Unabomber’s manifesto.

“It was a nightmare,” David Kaczynski, who as a child had idolized his older brother, said in a 2005 speech at Bennington College. “I was literally thinking, ‘My brother’s a serial killer, the most wanted man in America.’”

Swanson turned to a corporate lawyer friend, Anthony Bisceglie, who contacted the FBI.

David Kaczynski wanted his role kept confidential, but his identity quickly leaked out and Ted Kaczynski vowed never to forgive his younger sibling. He ignored his letters, turned his back on him at court hearings and described David Kaczynski in a 1999 book draft as a “Judas Iscariot [who] ... doesn’t even have enough courage to go hang himself.”

Ted Kaczynski on 21 June 1996. Sources say he died by suicide on Saturday. Photograph: Elaine Thompson/AP

‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski Died By Suicide in Prison – Report

Harvard-educated mathematician carried out a 17-year solitary bombing spree that killed three people and injured 23 others

— Associated Press | Sunday 11 June 2023

Ted Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber”, who carried out a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died by suicide, four people familiar with the matter told the Associated Press.

Kaczynski, who was 81 and suffering from late-stage cancer, was found unresponsive in his cell at the federal medical center in Butner, North Carolina, around 12.30am on Saturday. Emergency responders performed CPR and revived him before he was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead later on Saturday morning, the people told the AP.

The people were not authorized to publicly discuss Kaczynski’s death and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Kaczynski’s death comes as the federal Bureau of Prisons has faced increased scrutiny in the last several years following the death of wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, who also died by suicide in a federal jail in 2019.

Kaczynski had been held in the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.

A Harvard-educated mathematician, Kaczynski lived as a recluse in a dingy cabin in rural Montana, where he carried out a solitary bombing spree that changed the way Americans mailed packages and boarded airplanes.

His targets included academics and airlines, the owner of a computer rental store, an advertising executive and a timber industry lobbyist. In 1993, a California geneticist and a Yale University computer expert were maimed by bombs within the span of two days.

Two years later, he used the threat of continued violence to convince the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish his manifesto, a 35,000-word screed against modern life and technology, as well as damages to the environment.

The tone of the treatise was recognized by his brother, David, and David’s wife, Linda Patrik, who tipped off the FBI, which had been searching for the Unabomber for years in the nation’s longest, costliest manhunt.

Authorities in April 1996 found him in a small plywood and tarpaper cabin outside Lincoln, Montana, that was filled with journals, a coded diary, explosive ingredients and two completed bombs.

While awaiting trial, in 1998, Kaczynski attempted to hang himself with a pair of underwear. Though he was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as a paranoid schizophrenic, he was adamant that he wasn’t mentally ill. He eventually pleaded guilty rather than allow his attorneys to present an insanity defense.

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Synthesis Update: 16th May 2023

The deadline is two days away yet I think I am able to submit the work early as I cannot think of what else to add to the three pieces. I’ve spent the majority of today doing light mixing and making sure everything is all good and to a standard I am somewhat comfortable with.

The West Coast piece I have named “Analogue Animosity” to reflect the idea of not only solely using analogue synths but also the aggressive sounds they made. I didn’t want to do a lot of mixing to this piece since it would defeat the purpose of doing it on the synths themselves. One main thing I did do was add a tremolo effect to some tracks as I did not know how to do this on either the Buchla or Oakley so it would add some interest. Near the start with the pink noise track, I did use automation to slow it down and then speed it up, again to add interest.

I am well aware that this piece is, to put it bluntly, quite boring. This style of more ambient and less traditionally musically written sounds are not my forte and I really struggled to sonically visualise where the piece could go structure wise, but I am still pleased that I made three evidently different sections in it.

For (Ghost) Riders In The Sky, this was the one I had most fun working on since I have a fair bit of experience with this song already as it was included as help in my dissertation. However I still did struggle to create sounds that would sound nice together as I remember this is advice Stephen gave to me; not to create sounds similar enough to one another since the mix would become quite muddy. I was happy with the end result of the sound of the repeated arpeggio chords. To create this I utilised the pulse waveform on the Oakley which meant it could sound more colourful compared to a sawtooth for example. I did use the ES2 synth from Logic to create the chord sounds as it would be easier to do so since it is polyphonic and would take up less time compared to doing it in the studio using analogue synths.

The Give Me Love instrumental was the first of the 3 pieces that I started, originally inspired by the “Switched On” movement. It was also the first of the pieces that I recorded using the analogue synths so hearing it back compared to the other two, the tones are a lot more basic. For the arpeggio sound, I do really like how it sounds and I’m also really pleased with how similar yet slightly different it sounds to the preset I used originally for the draft, especially with the frequency sweeps. An element that I did struggle with was the final section and getting low tones. I knew I wanted a sub bass sounds by using sine waves, yet I wanted something more audible yet aggressive too so I started with a sawtooth bass, but this meant I had to get creative to not have clashing sounds in the low end, so I used pulse waves in order to add a bit of colour especially in the higher end of the frequency range.