I want to build an atari punk console with a 555 to learn basic soldering and electronics, fun stuff
Then take a look on https://yusynth.net at some of the VCF designs, and build one of them.
You won't have a synthesizer, you'll have some crazy homebrew drone machine that you can make scary movie sountracks with.
Obligatory link to Forest Mims' book: https://archive.org/details/555-designs