In this episode, we interview Sonja, aka Sofie Mikhaylova. Sonja is a DJ, experimental synth artist, music writer and editor, workshop organizer and facilitator, and creator of independent record label Biblioteka Records.  
We chat with Sonja about her new e-book Experimenting, avoiding trying to make music the "right" way, messages to our past musical self, and recording the physical sounds of her modular synth.

Gear 4 Queers Episode 2: Sofie Mikhaylova aka Sonja

filter ping (started with)

using tenori-on to CV/gate 2 modular
some audio out discernible from tenori in bckgrnd.

one off tenori quick patch midi 2 modular

to the galloping jellyfishpeople of taucetiseven

Lie Of the Machine - Ian

modular + clean strat / fen prince reverb  + jinglebells + distorted tele + conn 6m '37

to catch a watersprite

A quick improv using the Yamaha YDS-150 through some ableton loopers that seems to work.

Floot Looper

1. d minor
2. la rain and computer viruses
3. take me away
4. salt water
5. absence

buy: https://sunnli5hh-t.bandcamp.com/album/untitled-ep

Untitled EP

Untitled EP (full album)

Short recording of a more complex modular patch, with more modules and more spaghetti.

Complex Patch 1

For those that like melodies that get stuck in your head

Available on:
https://insessionworld.bandcamp.com/track/i-see-you

I See You

Granular synthesizer test. Sample is the first second of Shriekback's "underwaterboys". Parameters tested include grain density, deviation, size, shape, loop points, speed/pitch, grain chords, and stereo spread.

Volkmire's inferno basic function test (version 2), stereo

Solo music project of H.W.Y. Chan (Toronto, Canada). Mainly modular etudes here. Sound design & live/composed music (flutes, percussion, electronics) for theatre, dance, film.

Everything comes alive when contradictions accumulate.
- Gaston Bachelard, "The Poetics of Space"