New Music Circle board member Mike "Dr. Alphonse Caspar Mabuse" Murphy - a longtime analog synth enthusiast & user, hardware builder & experimenter, software engineer, performer and recordist - will present a program that promises to:
"illuminate and explain in plain layman's English, what every knob on an analog synthesizer does (and how it messes with all the other knobs!) Doc will unravel the tangle of confusing labels and weird wiggly lines on the panel with a very practical, hands-on approach. The form will be a very informal lecture using a demonstration synth and an Oscilloscope to give you a peek at what sound LOOKS like as we talk about it...
The format will be one lecture per basic module. The first lecture will cover the Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). Doc will demonstrate and explain the function of every knob and jack commonly found on a VCO and its' interrelationship with the other controls.
Attendees are invited to lug their own analogs to the lectures if they have specific questions. The focus will be very practical and wherever possible, math (beyond addition and subtraction and positive/negative numbers) will be scrupulously avoided. Doc is old and easily confused himself."
I've worked with Murphy a few times over the years, and he really knows his stuff with regard to analog synthesis. I'd expect him to put on an informative and entertaining class, and hey, you sure can't beat the price, right?
To reiterate, the clasess are free and open to the public, and there's no need to call ahead or pre-register; just show up at the appointed place and time. After the first session, the series will continue with subsequent presentations scheduled begining at 6 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month through next April or May.
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