The Tonarium

A haptic and conceptual bridge between advanced digital technology and the user. It’s becoming a tool for simultaneous intuitive generation, composing and prototyping of spatial-acoustic sound properties. Thanks to the innovative fusion of analogue and digital technologies, this can be done in real-time by use of ergonomic panels and analogue controllers, i.e. in workshops until now free from the most frequently practised pre-production technique and software implementing material under linear playback.

The 'Tonarium’ includes, among other things, two full-analogue modular synthesisers (including the SERGE system, the most reputable in academic environments), two full-analogue 10-channel matrix mixers (one dedicated to audio signal distribution and the other to control signal management), a number of specially developed panels for integrating with external instruments and extracting additional signals from them, processed directly into digital control messages for the 3D system software.

Concept, design, and construction: Piotr Ceglarek, Jan Dybała
Audio matrix components implementation: Alessio Occhiodoro
Technological collaboration: Janusz Kortyka, Nils Björn, Jakub Rożej
Technical collaboration: Piotr Sabatowski, Paweł Staszewski, Marek Gajda