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Writings, technical documents, source texts, recommended reading, and annotated links.

01Writings

Written by SARC — essays, papers, reports, and statements.

SARC 2026
Exploratory Sound Creation and the Trap of Modular Synthesis
The modular synthesizer promises openness but quietly funnels the user into the same few structures — an argument for an instrument whose primary material is relation, difference, and coupling.
Read online modular-synthesis instrument-design exploration cybernetics

How instruments, circuits, devices, and software work — SARC and third-party documentation.

Third-party texts SARC makes available for study.

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Books, papers, and essays recommended by SARC but hosted elsewhere.

JAMES TENNEY 1988
Meta-Hodos and META Meta-Hodos
Frog Peak Music
Tenney's application of Gestalt perception to musical form — a foundational text for thinking about how listeners organise sound into structure.
External source music-theory gestalt musical-form perception
STAFFORD BEER 1974
Designing Freedom
John Wiley & Sons
Beer's CBC Massey Lectures analyze why institutions fail through the lens of cybernetics — and how the science of effective organization could be used to redesign them.
External source cybernetics systems institutions
VALENTINO BRAITENBERG 1984
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
MIT Press
Braitenberg's thought experiments in which simple sensorimotor machines produce lifelike behavior — a foundational text on emergence from minimal parts.
External source cybernetics emergence robotics

Annotated paths outward — artists, archives, research projects, software, lectures, and channels.

XENHARMONIC COMMUNITY LINK
Xenharmonic Wiki
A deep reference for microtonal music — tunings, temperaments, scales, notation
External source microtonality tuning music-theory