EMS Synthi 100: Making Drones, Grains and Jungle

I tune the oscillators, ping the filters, randomize the envelopes and jungle the keyboard. Generative grainscape - drone jam on EMS Synthi100 recorded in July 2020, at the Athens Conservatory. Thanks to my good friends at the Greek Contemporary Music Research Center (KSYME) and kindly hosted by Athens Conservatory, I have been given the opportunity to work with an EMS Synthi 100. This legend of a synth, only 30 produced (1971 - 1979) and only a few specimens still functioning today, has 12 dual oscillators, three complex envelope shapers, 8 resonant filters, 2 adjustable noise sources, a filterbank, a complex random event and voltage generator, 8 VCAs, 8 input amplifiers, separate send and return busses, envelope and pitch follower, ring modulators, slew limiters, reverbs, as well as a three-layer 256 note event digital sequencer (with retrofitted MIDI interface). All these modules can be interconnected using two 60x60 matrixes and patch pins. There is also a two-tier keyboard with widely adjustable spread a