I have been designing a case study recently for automotive UX and I'd love to know what is the current scope in this field and is there a chance of growth in India considering the present conditions.
I noticed something interesting while working with a basic BOGAUDIO oscillator.
When you listen to a simple, steady tone (like a sine wave), you can actually feel it in your chest-not metaphorically, but physically. It’s like your body starts resonating with the frequency.
This gives you an understanding of how sympathetic sounds react to our body structure and resonates all parts of the body including lungs and bones and not just heart.
I’ve also noticed it can shift your internal state a bit. The simplicity of the tone reduces mental clutter, and your attention naturally turns inward. It doesn’t “fix” anxiety, but it can make you more aware of it and sometimes that alone changes how it feels.
Not sure if this is talked about much in synthesis circles, but it feels like an important part of understanding sound beyond just patching.
What first pulled me into modular wasn’t sound-it was the visual side. The cables, the movement, the patterns… it felt like interacting with light more than music. So I started randomly connecting modules, just trying to see:
“Is sound coming out or not?” Eventually I realized-everything is just electrical signals. But still, something was missing. Then I understood this simple chain:
oscillator - filter - output
And suddenly everything made sense. Instead of randomness, there was structure.
But here’s what I learned after that:
Every module has its own *place* in the system.
Not just physically-but functionally. Now I don’t just patch to make sound. I patch with intention.
Curious-did you also start randomly, or were you more structured from the beginning?