Tin Can Synth Jam
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
TCSJ 037 talking and noise
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first new episode in a WHILE! If you're thirsty for more regularly scheduled TCSJ content, check out https://www.twitch.tv/tincansynt...
TCSJ 036 Smoldering Cone Pulp
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In which I explore my Doubleplusbass kick drum prototype and my RumbleKikBoom proto-prototype, get really into some nice grooves, find myself extrac...
TCSJ 035 Lattice of Coincidence
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Me talking about synthesizer stuff that's been happening, and then me doing a pretty laid back 135BPM techno jam with plenty of breaks for interesti...
TCSJ 34 patio
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Without listening to be sure, this may be my favorite episode so far. A passage in the middle even caused me to get goosebumps and tears. Much less ...
TCSJ 033 Cerise Steelbarrow
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I really like this episode. Much much much techno. And then toward the end I think I figured out what the problem is with my EasyEi8ht trigger seque...
TCSJ 032 Play Think
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This was recorded at PlayThink Festival 2021 while a chair-dance class was underway. Listening to your environment through headphones (and especiall...
TCSJ 031 Squeamishness of the Hegemony
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I built a new microphone! And I sounded so good to myself that I wound up talking for like fifteen minutes.My goal with this episode was to use my n...
TCSJ 030 Unrehearsed!!!
26 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I listened to Podular Modcast's recent interview of Captain Credible who I'm ashamed to admit was unknown to me previously, and he talked about his ...
TCSJ 29 Mary Waters Park
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
My first outdoor episode! I hoped to be able to talk to people and let them play my djembe, but turning on my synth's speakers created runaway feedb...
TCSJ 028 Grumble Pillow
10 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The massive worldwide synth live-streaming event of the year was this past weekend, and I got to participate! But I wasn't as happy with the jam as ...
TCSJ 027 twentyfourtwo
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is my first jam with my Mutable Instruments Peaks module. Still in a tin can obviously. It's a LFO/envelope generator, quite complex, quite ver...
TCSJ 026 Waterfalls
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Expect to hear plenty of my Wav Trigger module playing vocal snippets, a whole lot of my noise module (white noise, shimmer, sample-and-hold weirdne...
TCSJ 025 Heavy
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There's a filter ping pattern through this entire 52 minute jam! At about 30 minutes, a section begins that's just incredibly heavy. One of my VCO m...
TCSJ 024 Sorcerer
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I'm working on a trigger sequencer module. So far it's working okay, but needs some tweaking to get it to recognize triggers when I'm playing it nat...
TCSJ023 Selenium Mims
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Very lots of drones and noise. I'm having a hard time creating beats with my new trigger sequencer (a very DIY SWT16) so you can hear me talk about ...
TCSJ022 last before
18 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's my first long jam with my Sparkfun/robertsonics Wav Trigger module. Near the middle, I play with using it as a sort of granular synthesis engin...
tcsj021 Soda Screen
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I record many more of these than I upload, and I don't remember this one at all. So here it is, without any introduction. Besides this.
TCSJ020 GBRBG
23 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A new jam! This starts weird, gets really weird, stops being quite so weird, and then gets kind of good.The last five or seven minutes are actually ...
TCSJ019 Rinky Dink
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This jam features a microphone that sounds really great until I plug it in all the way, seven flashing LEDs that somehow make chirping bird noises, ...
TCSJ018 Shots Fired
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I spend some time figuring out my new sampling module. I spend a lot of time exploring the feedback going through one of my My Favorite Reverb modul...
TCSJ017 ISD1820
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Okay this one is weird. Last episode I played with my ISD1760 sample player, which is a tough module to use for rhythmic content. This episode I'm p...
TCSJ 016
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I guess I accidentally took a break from recording.I'm very pleased to be back at it. This is a difficult time. Covid cases are on the rise. Respons...
TCSJ 015 Jathilan
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I have always loved the textures even the most boring field recordings can bring to synth jams. I lost the link to the Jathilan field recording.... ...
TCSJ 014
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tin Can Synth Jam number 14
TCSJ 013 first twitch
23 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I decided to stream a jam using the Twitch service.
TCMJ 012 Hey Burt Hey Burt Hey Burt
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
BONUS EPISODE!This is the first synth jam I did that I was really happy with. It was recorded right after Burt Lancaster passed away, RIP Burt.I fin...
TCSJ 011 OMG 425
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I built a microphone pre-amp! So I use that just a little bit. I focused more on one of my diode ladder filters and what sounds it can being to a wa...
TCSJ 010 Teasing Gabber
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is much faster than my usual stuff.Gabber is this weird super-fast dance music with crazy overclipped kicks and aggression all over the place. ...
TCSJ 009 Lysol
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Good luck listening to this one!I tried to stay away from anything rhythmic, or at least with a kick drum. I may have succeeded. But it may be unlis...
TCSJ 008 Beckstrom
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I'm really excited about this jam! My friend and DIY mentor Chris Beckstrom has been building synths and writing about it for at least two years bef...
TCSJ 007 Sub Sub
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
I built a suboctavizer that I play with a lot in this jam.What the circuit does is count the incoming wave peaks, and output a square wave signal th...
TCSJ 006 Everything is Broken
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This one heavily features my new diode ladder filter. Roland's famous TB-303 synthesizer gets a great deal of its iconic sound from a diode ladder f...
Tin Can Synth Jam 005
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This one starts out at 97.1 beats per minute. Same as my temperature. The pandemic has us all taking our temperatures much more often than normal.Th...
Tin Can Synth Jam 004
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This one's rough. I have lots of fun with my MI Braids module, set to VOWL. Getting vowel sounds out of a modular synthesizer is a challenge. You ne...
Tin Can Synth Jam 003
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mmmmm, lots of ambient vibes from this one. Randomly generated sequences! Very wobbly sounds from a cheap "100 Kinds of DSP Reverberation" circuit w...
Tin Can Synth Jam 002
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This jam starts out with the sound of an Atari Punk Console. The iconic circuit was designed by Forrest Mims, who named it the Stepped Tone Generato...
Introducing Tin Can Synth Jam
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
For the past three years I've been building a synthesizer out of electronic bits, usually without any circuit board of any kind, just soldering the ...