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Circuits to Culture: Synthesizers as Instruments, Interfaces, and Ideas

Posted: April 14th, 2026 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | Comments Off on Circuits to Culture: Synthesizers as Instruments, Interfaces, and Ideas

12-13 September 2026 | Townshend Studio | University of West London, UK

SYNTHposium 26 will be an in-person only event this year.

We invite submissions for SYNTHposium ’26, bringing together practitioners, researchers, engineers, musicians, and scholars – interested in synthesizers in all their forms – historical, technical, cultural, and creative. We welcome proposals for paper presentations, performance-demonstrations or other initiatives over a two-day event bringing together practitioners, researchers, engineers, musicians, and scholars. Presenters will also be invited to a distributed creativity event on the evening of 11 September for a unique chance to use the historic instruments in the collection.

Theme: From Circuits to Culture: Synthesizers as Instruments, Interfaces, and Ideas

Proposal deadline: 5 May 2026

Further details of themes, and how to submit to the call are available online here:
https://synthresearch.org/symposium/