Synthposium 2.0 was a huge success! We had two days of programming, the first with presentations and performances and the second day was a workshop about eurorack synthesizers.
Myself (joey) and Will (aka Dr. WIlliam Connor) worked on planning the event over the winter of 2026 after much encouragement from recent graduate Raghav Rao, who for the past year had heard stories of the original Synthposium and was heavily into synthesizers themselves. Others who helped organize were Matthew Campbell Ph.D. & Jonathan Guajardo Ph.D. with preparation and planning.
We locked down the date of April 25th and were able to work with a new venue in an old spot, aka Tavo Coffee’s back space is now Quintastic Bites, and boy were they friendly and ready to host us. Quintastic Bites integrates small bite size snacks and a laid back space to chill in directly connected to Tavo Coffee.
Additionally through our Creative Media Lab meet ups our students told us they would love a Workshop component to Synthposium. So we also planned an “introduction to Eurorack Synthesizers” workshops for April 26th where attendees could not only learn about Synthesizer but play them and develop their own chops.
Synthposium April 25th, 2026
The event started out with presentations and presentations by students and faculty. Here are some highlights:
Raghav Rao – Demonstrated and performed with a VCV Rack Mapped Sinewave output to Touch Designers creating visual flowers and music with the same pattern.
Sahat Jaldu – Used Processing to model a cello and played it back. Processing is a software/programing language that alls the creation of multi modal projects.
Jeff Morris Ph.D.– Jeff gave a Bytebeat composer demonstration, which was amazing and he shared multiple resources. Here is one we found: Click Here
Jackson Farris – French horn player Jackon gave a theremin using a Burns B3 model demonstration and performance.
Illana Rahim-Braden – Gave a demonstration of Synamodec Legus Expand & Synamodec Astrogorus Expand and then performed with it. These Synamodec’s were specifically made for Will Connor.
Melanie Guerera – Musical performer demonstrated and played the Soma Labs The Pipes, a vocal processor.
Joey – A thing maker, joey demonstrated his latest Synth creation.
Black Magic Cyborg (Brandon Lynch) – Playing out of a suit case Black Magic Cyborg gave a custom concoction of synths, pedals and other electronics performance.
Sunday Synthposium 2.0 Workshop
On Sunday myself (joey) and Will hosted a Eurorack Synthesizer workshop where we taught attendees about eurorack synthesizer history and design, then showed them how they physically work, how they are designed and used for performing. After which the participants took all the individual components and assembled eurorack synthesizers to then practice and perform on. It was an amazing event, we provided pizza and drinks as well. The participants really took to the equipment and the time flew by to the point that we stayed a bit longer.
Synthposium 3.0?
You bet! We are already working on and planning Synthposium 3.0 for Spring 2027.