Synth Camp 2025
13.– 15.6.2025
Synth Camp is a summer camp for electronic music, analog and digital music technology, soldering and tinkering. The second Synth Camp will take place on Kemiönsaari, in the premises of Kulturhus Björkboda on June 13-15, 2025
SIGN UP HERE or email us at info@synthcamp.org for more info.
The first Synth Camp was organized at Kulturhus Björkboda on June 16-18, 2023. It was a weekend-long, small-scale gathering in the spirit of a LAN party, i.e. bring your synths and gadgets to the old-school ballroom, there will be a plug and a channel for the mixer.
The theme of 2024 Synth Camp was tracker music. Trackers were the first common music making programs for home computers, which greatly democratized music production. Tracker music is a key part of the demoskene phenomenon, which has a strong foundation in Finland and on which our current strong gaming industry is based.
In April 2020, the Ministry of Education and Culture added the demo scene representing Finnish digital culture to the list of Living Heritage. The partly nostalgic use of Träkkers has become more common in recent years, especially in the modular-synthesizer scene, and there have been numerous hardware-based versions of them.
We have invited to the Synth Camp 2024 event key Finnish tracker musicians who gained great international recognition in their time, such as Aleksi "Heatbeat" Eeben, Sami "Groo" Järvinen, Juha "Di33y" Kujanpää, Mikko Dean Lipiäinen. The Experimental Electronics Society (koelse.org) and Dmitri Zherbin's Noisebox workshop are also included.
In connection with Synth Camp 2024, we organize open workshops and concerts for the public. At Synth Camp, we aim to revive the synamite tradition born around modular drums, which was suppressed in Finland at the time of covid 2020-2021.
Synthcamp is free but requires registration -> email ville.hyvonen@gmail.com
more detailed information will be updated here in the spring.
Kulturhus Björkboda info: https://kubu.fi/info/
Pics: https://photos.app.goo.gl/kvFepkq26LQXQb9aA
Kemiönsaari visit info
https://visitkimitoon.fi/
What does it cost?
€10 accommodation fee if you are camping at the pemise Fri-Sun, otherwise free. Just email you are coming! info@synthcamp.org
Is it possible to stay?
A tent / motorhome in the yard or check the supply in the nearby areas. The school has toilets and showers.
Is it possible to get there by public transport?
From Turku and Helsinki, take a bus to Taalintehtaa, exit at Björkboda, halfway between Kemiö and Taalintehtaa, 200m walk to the school.
Nearest shop? Genböle K-market Kiva, 3km
Food, drink?
Cafe open during the day. Your own snacks, the school kitchen can be used outside the cafeteria-aijoki.
Can I sell things?
Everything related to the topic is welcome.
Is there a PA, organ harmonium, pole trees, blackboard, central radio?
Yes, two, yes, many, yes, but it requires hacking
Any swag? Sure, but DIY.