Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People

Ezra J. Teboul is a researcher and artist, and currently a student librarian at Concordia University. They obtained a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2020. In 2022, they were a scholar-in-residence at the Columbia University Computer Music Center. Their work focuses on the material histories of electricity, work, and music.

Andreas Kitzmann is an associate professor of Humanities at York University in Toronto, Canada. His research interests include modular synthesis, technology and culture, digital media and community and memory studies. His self-authored books include The Hypertext Handbook: The Straight Story and Saved From Oblivion: Documenting the Daily from Diaries to Web Cams. He has co-edited two books, and his work has also been included in various edited collections and journals such as A History of English Autobiography (2016), From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom (2012), the International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2017), First Monday (2015), and Organized Sound (2023).

Einar Engström is a software engineer, modular synthesist, and computer musician. Creatively, he has been known to code in Lua, SuperCollider, Tidal Cycles, and the Teletype esolang, whilst professionally he primarily inhabits the BEAM ecosystem. Both practices are natural extensions to Einar's previous PhD research into the history and philosophy of computing music programming, which focused on the Acoustical and Behavioral Research Center at Bell Laboratories--the first behemoth of innovation in both telecommunications and computing. He also holds an MA in Visual Culture from Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan), is a former editor-in-chief of the bilingual international contemporary art magazine LEAP (Beijing, China) and technician and researcher at RE/Lab (Toronto Metropolitan University), and has hands in various electronic music record labels.

Ezra J. Teboul是一位研究員和藝術家，目前是康考迪亞大學的學生圖書館員。他們於2020年從倫斯勒理工學院獲得電子藝術博士學位。2022年，他們成為哥倫比亞大學計算機音樂中心的駐校學者。他們的工作主要關注電力、工作和音樂的物質歷史。

Andreas Kitzmann是加拿大多倫多約克大學的人文學副教授。他的研究興趣包括模塊合成、技術與文化、數字媒體和社區與記憶研究。他自己撰寫的書籍包括《超文本手冊：直截了當的故事》和《從日記到網絡攝像頭：從遺忘中拯救》。他共同編輯了兩本書，他的作品還被收錄在各種編輯集和期刊中，例如《英國自傳的歷史》（2016年）、《從文本到短信：課堂中的新媒體》（2012年）、《國際新媒體技術研究期刊》（2017年）、《First Monday》（2015年）和《組織聲音》（2023年）。

Einar Engström是一位軟體工程師、模塊合成師和電腦音樂家。在創作方面，他以Lua、SuperCollider、Tidal Cycles和Teletype esolang編程，而在專業領域，他主要使用BEAM生態系統。這兩種實踐都是Einar之前的博士研究的自然延伸，該研究關注貝爾實驗室的聲學和行為研究中心，這是電信和計算領域的第一個創新巨頭。他還擁有早稻田大學（日本東京）的視覺文化碩士學位，曾是雙語國際當代藝術雜誌《LEAP》（中國北京）的主編，以及多倫多都會大學RE/Lab的技術人員和研究員，並參與了各種電子音樂唱片公司的工作。