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SyReN Synthposium 2026: call for participation!

Proposal deadline: 5 May 2026

Theme: From Circuits to Culture: Synthesizers as Instruments, Interfaces, and Ideas
We invite submissions for SYNTHposium ’26, bringing together practitioners, researchers, engineers, musicians, and scholars – interested in synthesizers in all their forms – historical, technical, cultural, and creative. We welcome proposals for paper presentations, performance-demonstrations or other initiatives over a two-day event bringing together practitioners, researchers, engineers, musicians, and scholars.

Further information: https://synthresearch.org/symposium

Proposal deadline: 5 May 2026

10/04/2026

SyReN Synthposium 2026

A date has been set for the 2026 SyReN Symposium:

12-13 September 2026 | Townshend Studio | University of West London, UK
SYNTHposium 26 will be an in-person only event this year.

04/04/2026

SyReN Symposium 2025

A date has been set for the 2025 SyReN Symposium day: Saturday 11th October 2025

This will be a hybrid event, both online and in-person on the Leeds University campus: School of Music, 12 Cavendish Road, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.

04/04/2025

We are now on Bluesky

We have successfully migrated from X to Bluesky this month: https://bsky.app/profile/synthresearch.bsky.social

07/03/2025

Papers by James Gardner

Thank you to James Gardner for submitting his papers to be featured on our ‘Links’ page. We are seeking more papers to promote on our site, so please send us any links of your work on synthesizer to be featured here

27/06/2024

The Analogue Synthesizer

Ewan Stefani’s book chapter, ‘The Analogue Synthesizer’, is now available to view on our ‘links’ page

10/06/2024

Call for Existing Synth Research

We are seeking to promote any synth-related papers on our ‘links’ page. Send us your papers to be featured on our website

29/05/2024

Instagram

We are now on Instagram. Follow us @synthresearch

14/05/2024

Website Update

New website is now live