• Much bigger version of above photo - GIF (713K) or JPEG (988K)
• Photo of the synth running recently in the basement studio; Day or night
• Synth photo circa 2000 in my old basement studio, with fuller description
• The synth rig set up at the MIT Museum for its Jan-April 2012 installation - closer view here.
• Closeups of wires and modules from runing patches at the MIT Museum, here, here, and here
• A shot of one of the cabinets watched by our old Himalayan cat "Gingerbread"
• The synth at a lunch installation I did at the Media Lab in January of 1999
• A closeup of some patched modules
• Very early shot of the first synth cabinet from when I was an undergraduate in 1976 (and couldn't afford knobs)
• A shot of the modules that I built while in Zurich, stacked up in my old apartment waiting to ship back to the USA
• A closeup of the assimilated Casio SK-1 Keyboard
• A closeup of the assimilated Casio VL-Tone Keyboard
• Me and the synth rig at MIT in July of 2004 as it was being readied for transport to Linz

• Full list of all synth modules and functions
• Audio Examples
• Curated 'albums' of my work with the synth on Bandcamp!
• Short MPEG video of synth in action (1.8 Meg)
• An interview with me (incl. more photos) that the Virtual Synth Museum did a few years back and posted on their site. My comments are choppy in places, but again, I tend to talk quickly...
• A few pages that I wrote for Ben Kettlewell's book "Electronic Music Pioneers" that describes what it was like to grow up as a synth hacker.
• A detailed report that I wrote back in May of 1977 that describes the design of all the devices in the original 37-module synthesizer cabinet.
• Photos, audio clips, and video from synth rig installed at Ars Electronica 2004.
• A paper that my students gave at the NIME 2012 Conference on our Patchwerk module, that lets people control the synth over the web.
• A paper that I wrote for the Voltage Connect Conference (March 10-11, 2017) at the Berklee College of Music that talks about why modular synths are coming back, what makes them special, and gives lots of detail into the design and nature of my synth modules.
• A video of the Re-Synthesizer Installation I ran at the MIT Plasma and Fusion Center in 2018
• A short documentary on me and the synth system by Gizmodo
• A podcast interview with me in 2020 about building much of the synth at ETH in Zurich
• A video demo of a synth module I made in 2018 from a pair of 'Hamster' mimic toys.

• A website describing the MIDI Processor and deluxe Oberheim 4-Voice Interface that I designed and built for Lyle Mays.
• A website describing a digitially-controlled analog synthesizer that I built into a CAMAC module while a graduate student at CERN.
• A website describing a protoboard all-logic music-generating machine that I assigned to FAB class students in 1998 and 2000.
• A website describing a radio station that I redesigned and rebuilt during the mid 80's.
• Yet another website detailing a avant-progrock seminar that I ran (informally) at the MIT Media Lab in the spring of 2011.
• An online article that I wrote surveying many electronic musical instruments and controllers.
• Another online article that I wrote on electronic music controllers for IEEE Spectrum that's become something of a classic now.

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