The Monday after the last newsletter went out, two great things happened: My name was pulled out of the digital hat to perform at WMD’s Freq Boutique 045 Steve Roach asked me to perform at his and Serena Gabriel’s SoundQuest Fest 2021 The first one set off a scramble...
Happy New Year, everyone! I think most of us are very happy to see 2020 to be finished. Unfortunately, it looks like 2020’s bad side will hang over us for several more months, so we can’t quite yet let our guard down and party like it’s 1999… 😉 I’m finding this to be...
It’s been a varied month: In addition to working on my studio to better prepare it for recording and webcasts (and I have two such events coming up in December), I’ve created videos for a couple of small, inexpensive modulators, and experimented further with altering...
My main focus last month was composing, performing, and otherwise documenting a pair of modular synth performances: the angst-ridden Fear Itself for our local New Mexico modular meetup, featuring my gigging system The Tardis, and the longer-form, more cinematic Ash...
I spent a lot of time in September on two projects: the 50th anniversary of the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer, and extending the “wave splicing” idea appearing on some oscillators to encompass a general way to create more interesting audio and modulation waveforms....
This has been a productive time for me, as I work on clearing out a backlog of modules I’ve promised to create videos or articles for, while also setting up my studio to be better able to record spontaneous sessions and plan for future musical projects. It’s also been...
