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The second part of free improvisation sessions recorded in July 2020, at the Athens Conservatory, with Vassilis Roupas on piano and Stelios Giannoulakis on Synthi100. first part: Thanks to my good friends at the Greek Contemporary Music Research Center (KSYME) and kindly hosted by Athens Conservatory, I have been given the opportunity to work with an EMS Synthi 100. This legend of a synth, only 30 produced (1971 - 1979) and only a few specimens still functioning today, has 12 dual oscillators, three complex envelope shapers, 8 resonant filters, 2 adjustable noise sources, a filterbank, a complex random event and voltage generator, 8 VCAs, 8 input amplifiers, separate send and return busses, envelope and pitch follower, ring modulators, slew limiters, reverbs, as well as a three-layer 256 note event digital sequencer (with retrofitted MIDI interface). All these modules can be interconnected using two 60x60 matrixes and patch pins. There is also a two-tier keyboard with widely adj
