Composer | Improvisational Electronic Musician & Visualist | Sound Designer | Multimedia Artist
This video is made up of some GoPro footage from Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meetup #74 - "Special Event: Beat Cypher Halloween Collaboration + Intro to SP-404". I'm performing two songs from my album I Hear Your Signals https://markmosher.bandcamp.com/album/i-hear-your-signals. First up is "I Can See Them" performed on Percussa AudioCubes and Ableton Live. This is followed... Continue Reading →
Below is a live recording of the Mosher-Deane duo improvising with two MicroFreak synthesizers as their primary tonal source. This live session was recorded at the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meetup on October 8th, 2019 in the Renaissance Room at La Vita Bell in Longmont, CO. Teaser Video First up just under a minute of some... Continue Reading →
I just released a new Sonic Encounters soundscape podcast episode "Turning Back the Rainforest Clocks". Listen on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, or with your favorite podcatcher. Story: Quite some time ago an alien child instantiated our reality using some silly game they found on their parent's hand-me-down computer. As time went on they noticed the rainforests... Continue Reading →
David Soto (Sinemountain), organizer of the Colorado Modular Synth Society, is starting a new concert series called the Synthesizer Science Fiction Book Club. I'll be performing along with some other local synthesists at the first event in the series on Saturday September 14th at Mutiny Information Cafe at 2 S Broadway, Denver, Colorado 80209. Event... Continue Reading →
This month we'll feature a presentation on the amazing Elektron Analog Rytm MKII analog/digital beat making dream machine by Eddie Corcoran. Eddie will also perform a set using the Rytm. He performs under then name Méchant Métrique Details and RSVP here https://www.meetup.com/Rocky-Mountain-Synth/events/264543333/
Yesterday I did an improv session with my good friend and mentor Dino J.A. Deane. This session was recorded live at the Dino's studio (The Bohemian Lounge) using ambient room mics. We recorded 4 songs which came out to 54 minutes of music. I uploaded to this Soundcloud playlist for your enjoyment. https://soundcloud.com/markmosher/sets/mosher-deane-session-8-28-19 Mark Mosher... Continue Reading →
I'm happy to announce that season 03 of the Sonic Encounters soundscapes podcast is under way with a new song called "Please Press 3". Sonic Encounters began 4 years ago and this new soundscape brings us to 22 songs and over 2 hours and 40 minutes or original music. Each episode contains original improvisational soundscapes... Continue Reading →
“The Treatise on Musical Objects” by Pierre Schaeffer. 600+ pages. I’m goin’ in!
I'm happy to announce the release of the album Sonic Encounters Volume 02 on Bandcamp. The album contains 8 improvisational soundscapes with over 40 minutes of original music from season 2 of my Sonic Encounters podcast. The album is available now for $5. Click here to listen / buy on Bandcamp The songs are a... Continue Reading →
The Colorado Modular Synth Festival (CMSF) will have live music and interactive hands-on activities for kids and adults interested in synthesizers and electronic music.The event will take place at Belmar Plaza (464 S Teller St, Lakewood, CO 80226) from 2-8pm and then 8-10PM at Crazy Mountain Brewery at Belmar. We have over 18 performers and... Continue Reading →
This week I composed a new pieced called "Press 3" which starts of at 80 BPM and makes it all the way to 764 BPM 😯. He Here is a video snippet where I'm clocking along at 382 BPM. https://youtu.be/cfm06ftuyEw Thanks J.L. Kane for hosting and Mechant Metrique for shooting this on his phone. Soon... Continue Reading →
Heads up, Ableton just released a free set of Max for Live devices called CV Tools. In this post I'll offer some info on overview videos, a summary mind map I made to give you a one-page perspective on all this, links to a collection of videos just released on Moog's Demo Library YouTube Channel,... Continue Reading →
We had a crazy fun time at Tilt arcade on Tuesday night at our 7th anniversary celebration! Event description here. Of course the meetup is http://RockyMountainSynth.com. A Huge Thanks To... Tilt for access to their amazing arcade.Istonik Studios who provided 3 licenses for the Arcade Series Ultimate Max for Live sequencer packChris Blarsky who surprised... Continue Reading →
It's hard to believe it's been 7 years since I founded the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meetup. Since then we've grown to over 800 members all along the Front Range surrounding the Boulder and Denver area, won "Best Music Meetup in 2017 by Westword Magazine, and have hosted 70 events! The Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meetup is... Continue Reading →
What follows is a rather detailed journal of my 2010-2015 Dark Sci-Fi Techno Show. What Motivated Me to Write this Post... While I was working on a playlist for the upcoming Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meetup 7th Birthday Party at Tilt Arcade I thought about Tron which made me think about a cover I'd done back... Continue Reading →
Max for Live is an incredibly helpful solution that allows you to further customize and extend Ableton Live. While you can use it as a development tool, many people I've bumped into don't realize it's also extremely useful to artists who don't develop. For example, I've been using it for years now to use Ableton... Continue Reading →
