Modular Synthesis brings together scholars, artists, composers, and musical instrument designers in an exploration of modular synthesis, an unusually multifaceted musical instrument that opens up many avenues for exploration and insight, particularly with respect to technological use, practice, and resistance.

1. The Buchla Music Easel: From Cyberculture to Market Culture 2. Modular Synthesizers as Conceptual Models 3. A Time-Warped Assemblage as a Musical Instrument: Flexibility and Constauration of Modular Synthesis in Willem Twee Studio 1 4. Interview 5. Gordon Mumma's Sound-Modifier Console 6. Artist Statement: Switchboard Modulars - Vacant Levels and Intercept Tones 7. Eurorack to VCV Rack: Modular Synthesis as Compositional Performance 8. Strange Play: Parametric Design and Modular Learning 9. Grid Culture 10. Modular Ecologies 11. Ourorack: Altered States of Consciousness and Auto-Experimentation with Electronic Sound 12. Patching Possibilities: Resisting Normative Logics in Modular Interfaces 13. Draft/Patch/Weave: Interfacing the Modular Synthesizer with the Floor Loom 14. Composing Autonomy in Thresholds and Fragile States 15. Virtual Materiality: Simulated Mediation in the Eurorack Synthesizer Format 16. Interview: Designing Instruments as Designing Problems 17. Interviews with Four Toronto-based Modular Designers 18. Interview 19. Interview 20. Interview 21. Modular Synthesis in the Era of Control Societies 22. Randomness, Chaos, and Communication 23. Interview 24. From "What If?" To "What Diff?" and Back Again 25. Interview: The Mycelia of Does-Nothing Objects