In this episode of Come Back to Earth, I reflect on the grounding power of having something small you can control — a dial, a cable, a circuit — when the rest of life feels unpredictable.

I then sit down with music technology veteran and journalist Robin Vincent to talk about modular synthesis, hardware culture, and why building electronic music by hand keeps people curious, engaged, and sane.

This conversation explores tactile creativity, community, and the difference between scrolling presets and crafting sound from scratch. It also asks a bigger question: In an era of instant generation, what do we lose — and what do we gain — when we stop building things ourselves?

This is an episode about process, presence, and the quiet joy of plugging cables into possibility.

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Theme music by: Lincoln Parish

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• (00:00) - Robin Vincent
• (00:07) - Opening Memory
• (00:38) - Introduction
• (00:57) - Episode Orientation
• (01:25) - Interview with Robin Vincent
• (32:37) - Closing
• (33:36) - Outro