Well here I am, age 38, and doing what I’ve dreamed of since I was nine: making synthesizer recordings! When I was nine, I was introduced to the joys of classical synthesizer music by my grandfather. We would go to his house every Saturday night and have beans and hot-dogs (and the hottest steamed rolls on the planet), then retire to the cellar where my grandfather’s massive stereo system cranked out Switched-On Bach, The Unusual Classical Synthesizer, The Well Tempered Synthesizer, Snowflakes are Dancing, and dozens of other amazing albums that came out of the synthesizer explosion of the early 1970s.
And here’s me, lower left, with the snazzy plaid pants, standing with my family in front of the massive stereo that cranked out synthesizer music every Saturday night.
The sounds I heard were magic , pure and simple. Even now, almost 30 years later, I can remember every detail of that cellar room; it’s smells (a charming potpourri of must, cheap furniture and cigarette smoke), it’s 1970s wallpaper, and the stacks of records that lay in the chest held the 100% analog stereo system with it’s magnificent 5′+ homemade speakers.
Back to the present. I now have a state-of-the-art Mac Pro with Logic Pro 8 and more synthesizer power than a hundred Moog Modular equipped studios that dotted the music scene in the 70s. Bliss!
With this blog I will share with you the recordings I have made of Classical (read: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist and modern compositions, including some of my own) Synthesizer music.
