This page is dedicated to promoting synthesizer research, including book chapters, articles, and practice-based research broadly related to the topic. Our intention is to provide a sharing space for our community to promote and discover each other’s work in synth research. Please note that the following list is a collection of existing research submitted by our peers, and SyReN does not claim ownership of the work below.
Programming in Harmony: Restoring the History of Digital Music
James Mooney
Online Blog, Computer History Museum, January 2025
Peddling The Putney: The Early Marketing of the VCS3 Synthesizer
James Gardner
Book Chapter in Interpreting the Synthesizer: Meaning Through Sonics, ed. by Nick Wilson (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), pp.1–20
The Don Banks Music Box to The Putney: The Genesis and Development of the VCS3 Synthesiser
James Gardner
Article in Organised Sound 22 (2017), pp. 217–227 <doi:10.1017/S1355771817000127>
EVEN ORPHEUS NEEDS A SYNTHI
James Gardner
Article in TEMPO, 70 (2016), pp. 56–70, <doi:10.1017/S0040298215000984>
The Analogue Synthesizer: Classification, Design, and Musical Potential
Ewan Stefani
Book Chapter in Rethinking the Musical Instrument, ed. by Mine Doğantan-Dack (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), pp.337–359
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