The Huston Music Podcast

The immensely talented and equally as vibrant Lisa Bella Donna. A true musicologist, player, performer, composer and a complete hard study of the craft. Our conversation interweaves through the layers of her musicality, early career, recording techniques and synth gear stories playing alongside her wonderful human spirit. It resonates as she goes all in about her musical journey leading up to where she is today.

Based in Los Angeles California, Joseph Holiday (aka) SNAKES OF RUSSIA composes and performs dark, dystopian musical works brooding with dystopian imagery and tones. On this episode we look back on his vibrant career…...how it began, evolved and discover what ultimately got him to where he is today as a multi seasoned composer  and arranger for film and multimedia. As well as a musician, he is also accomplished as an engineer and producer. Joseph has a lot of studio tricks up his sleeve and I try to uncover a few of them in our conversation.

Join fellow synth Lords Protovolt, Michael Stein and Huston Singletary as they attempt to mangle anything worth discussing from the vast underworld of synthesisers, the synth industry itself and coming up in the age of synths. All loosely centered around the rest of our electronic pop culture universe. This audio podcast is a pre cursor to the forthcoming and refined video series launching soon on Youtube.

Join fellow synth Lords Protovolt and Huston Singletary as they attempt to mangle anything worth discussing from the vast underworld of synthesisers, the synth industry itself and the rest of our electronic pop culture universe. Our first guest Michael Stein joins us for the premier SYNTH LORDS Podcast episode hangout and conversation.

Stay tuned for the debut episode of The Synth Lords Podcast series today (Friday, April 24th between 1PM and 7PM EST)......... Yes, directly above this episode entry you'll see and here the full broadcast episode titles SYNTH LORDS • Keymasters of the Galaxy (with Michael Stein).  Thanks to all our Synth Lord listeners. Let's have some fun.

Julie Kathryn is a seasoned performer, vocalist and songwriter based in NYC with a strong hand in the world of synthesis and sound design. She also had a big role in initial preset design for Ableton Live 10 as a member of the Ableton freelancer sound team and has dozens of presets in Live 10 and Suite 10. Her sound can predominantly be described as DreamPop but her sound layering and beautiful textures lean towards experimental, ambient/evolving and triphop.

Join me for a great conversation with a wonderfully talented artist with a strong desire to explore the boundaries of sound.

Michele Darling has quite the storied career in the audio production world. Her current role has her seated firmly in the position of the first-ever assistant chair of the Electronic Production and Design Department at Berklee College of Music. Her journey began with a stringent and full time career as a classical flute player with a strong symphony resume but eventually she found herself following her true calling in sound design, synthesis and audio production. From her solitary audio related early days deep within the television and broadcast industry, planting the seeds in the underground Chicago house music scene to making the jump over to Sesame Street as a principle sound designer, audio director and composer. Managing one of the largest music tech education schools on the planet introduced her amazing work as a freelance contributing sound designer for Ableton's Live 10 release. Her presets can be played and heard throughout Live 10.

Join us as Michele takes us all on a deep dive through a marvelous, vibrant and often times hilarious career in the world audio and sound design.

Michele Darling has quite the storied career in the audio production world. Her current role has her in the position of the first-ever assistant chair of the Electronic Production and Design Department at Berklee College of Music. Her journey began with a stringent and full time career as a classical flute player with a strong symphony resume but eventually she found herself following her true calling in sound design, synthesis and audio production. From her solitary audio related early days deep within the television and broadcast industry, planting the seeds in the underground Chicago house music scene to making the jump over to Sesame Street a sound designer, audio director and composer. To eventually managing one of the largest music tech education centers on the planet.  

Join us as Michele takes us all on a deep dive through a marvelous, vibrant and often times hilarious career in audio.  

In this episode sound byte I go over the 2020 show in Anaheim this week and weekend. Ramble about the press hype and some of the gear I want to check out, what's ahead on the podcast series and more. I'm glad your here.