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Course: Behind stage and screenSection: Inventing unusual synthesizersSubtitles: en

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if you ask somebody how you made this

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sound or or what equipment do you use

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the answer I don't tell you this my

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professional SEC but in electronic

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community I meet opposite people with

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big love share their

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knowledge flad crimer is a synthesizer

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inventor but he's doing things

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differently he's always seeking for the

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purest form of self-expression and to

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him that involves plenty of

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noise whole my life devoted to music

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from the very beginning firstly as a

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collector and then as a sound producer

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as a musician and now as a producer of

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synthesizers Flat's company Som

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laboratory is dedicated to creating

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unconventional synthesizers which are

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played by music musicians all over the

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world the very first memories of my

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music is a small real recorder of my

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father my father did a lot of recordings

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from radio and it was a very uh weird

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mixture of different songs different

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countries languages for me music is a

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magical s that is why I love it so much

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so what is a synthesizer well they

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emerged in the mid 20th century using

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electronic circuit to generate sounds

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whilst they went through many iterations

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the most popular design has a keyboard

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to make them accessible to piano players

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users could then sculpt their sound

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using filters and effects recreating

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acoustic instruments or creating

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something entirely

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new blad developed synthesizers for his

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own performances for years but his drone

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machine Lyra gained some interest after

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he shared a demo on YouTube and with

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that s laboratory was

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born lra can scream screams like Beast

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uh lra can

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produce very complex noise he is a very

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philosophical and actually heart State

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of

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Mind The Ether is a handheld device

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which flat cause an anti- radio it

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detects interference and radiation from

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objects all around us it's like a

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additional sense there is a very complex

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uh electromagnetic World created by

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Humanity unconsciously without special

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intentions and when I uh discovered it I

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was very amazed how complex and Rich it

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is apart from these noise machines Vlad

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isn't afraid of Melody crafted from

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solid wood Terror uses metal sensors to

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detect your finger movements and can be

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played by anyone even without a musical

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background Tera has absolutely different

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mode it is a perfect balance between

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nature and

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Technology like super simple interface

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with very complex possibilities s are

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prolific and they are constantly

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releasing new products fans pre-order

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these instruments up to a year in

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advance each product is presented with a

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bizarre demo video which always grabs

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people's

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attention these instruments aren't just

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for Fringe artists in fact their unusual

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organic sounding tones lend themselves

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perfectly to cinema and game soundtracks

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including the soundtrack for cyberpunk

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2077 and a classic Horror

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Story

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I would say that acoustic instruments is

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like a very solid person it has very

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recognizable face even some expression

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of emotions that usually you can see on

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this face but synthesizer is chameleon

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so it's like a perfect actor that has

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multiple faces and even even with a good

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synthesizer nobody knows how many fa it

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has and this is the biggest power of

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synthesizer because it's very flexible

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so the the best part of synthesizer is

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not even that you can program different

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uh Timbers using the same machine but

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that you can play Chambers so they can

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you can change

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Chambers right among your

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performance

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of course it's very complex process

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because I not only need a good

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imagination about possible things uh but

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I also need very nice connection with

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technical possibility so that is why my

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work is very hard I need to make a

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perfect balance between strong idea and

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strong philosophy possibility to make it

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in the real world with existing

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Technologies and possibility don't make

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it very expensive with my imagination

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very easy can reach €

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100,000 not a problem at all but

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unfortunately not too many people will

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buy

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it most of artists will agree with me it

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is a combination of reflection of outer

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world this reflection processes your

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inner world this is like my reaction of

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s that I see around when I propose some

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instrument usually it is a philosophical

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statement so maybe I even more

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philosopher than an

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engineer

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for

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