Synth Harmony

The duelists face off at sunrise.  Shots are fired but no one is hurt.  Feeling faintly foolish, the contenders decide to call the whole thing off, forgive, forget and have a picnic.

After showers of rain the sun follows, drying clothes that had been damp moments before.

First test of streaming in Twitch, thanks to Nicks Virtual Garage.

A short piece to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer back in October, 1970.  This was recorded at the Electronic Music Education & Preservation Project (EMEAPP.org) studio in support of the ARP Foundation.

At the end of our first six months I am delighted to present our first guest artist, George Wallace of AirBorn Music.  Enjoy George's beautiful piece "Canopy", showing him performing live in his studio.  Please visit his website, http://AirBornMusic.com.  Find out more about this extraordinary talented artist.

At the office of Retrolinear, a repair shop in North Wales, PA where this instrument has been under restoration and repair, on 9-9-20 we made this video as the first celebration of this instrument's new musical life. We are observing the 50th anniversary of the release of the ARP 2500 Modular Synthesizer in October of 1970.

I played these instruments extensively starting in the fall of 1971.  At Sinergia Studio in Honolulu, HI, under the tutelage of my mentor and teacher Peter Coraggio, we established an ARP Dealorship where we demonstrated, taught classes and sold the entire line of ARP synthesizers.  The flagship instrument was our ARP 2500 Modular.  

It was great fun to play a restored ARP 2500 as we honored the memory of Alan R. Pearlman, the founder and inventor of the ARP Synthesizer.  Support the Alan R. Pearlman Foundation (https://alanrpearlmanfoundation.org/) and visit EMEAPP to join and support them as well.

The dogs know the way back home.  The race is done, you're exhausted and your sense of direction is gone.  Three trees past the last snow drift and everything looks the same.  Hold onto your sled and give the lead dog his head.  The dogs sense magnetic fields, all animals do.  Surrender and trust four-legged intelligence.  If all your life is one long modulation then a shift into triple rhythm doesn't change your tune.  You fail forward faster.  Let go and let the dogs find the way.

Under Northern Lights

Two Lovers stand hand-in-hand

Auras will mingle

Welcome to Andros Island in the Bahamas where we test our submarine.  First we board the boat and find our bunk.  At 0:30 we are underway.  0:50 it's time to dive.   At 2:00 we hear the pings of our sonar.  2:40 We're already missing our homes and comfort as we remember life on the surface.  3:26 It's time to get quiet and be a fish in the water.  A very quiet fish.  3:44 Flights of imagination, inner melodies fulfill the fantasies of your ears.  4:16 Weapon ready.  Ship ready.  Shoot tube two.  4:30 The torpedo is off.  5:00 the danger continues.  5:30 Back to the surface.  6:14 It's just a drill.  May there never again be a war.

Iditarod

The snow is blowing, the dogs are pawing the ground in their eagerness to go.  Mush!  Running the diphtheria serum to Nome to save lives.  The wind, the snow, the courage to go on.  The race of canines and humans against distance and the elements.  The drama is personal.  The race is inside you as well as outside you.  The snow is blowing and the dogs are eager to go.