If you're a fan of the cinematic universe, this is a Great Big Story for you! These strange devices are used in big budget cinematic scores and video games like Cyberpunk 2077. A small team of dedicated engineers called @somasynths_subchannel based in Warsaw, Poland and led by sound visionary @somasynths are hard at work creating beautiful hand-made musical instruments. But you won’t get any old tune out of them, in fact, it’s quite hard to control what comes out of them most of the time. They create harsh shrieks and noises, yet they’re loved by musicians all over the world. Here's why Vlad’s unusual approach to music creation is catching on...

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00:00 Intro
00:24 Who is Vlad Kreimer?
01:00 Vlad's musical upbringing
01:20 What is a synthesizer
01:50 Building synthesizers from scratch
02:05 LYRA-8
02:20 ETHER
02:50 TERRA
03:20 SOMA's unique promo videos
03:40 Vlad's instruments are used in film scores
04:00 Acoustic versus synthesisers
05:05 The philosophy of creating new instruments

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