Experimental Musician and Multimedia Artist
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. Subscribe in Apple PodcastsFeed for you... 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 😯. I don't have a recording to share of the song yet but I did perform it at Beat Cypher in Boulder last night which was really fun as always.... 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 →
I'm excited to announce that I was a guest on the by the minute podcast Open the Podcast Door, Hal. Chris and Rudi discuss Stanley Kubrick's science fiction masterpiece, "2001: A Space Odyssey," one minute at a time. They are occasionally joined by guests from other movie-by-minutes podcasts, as well as film enthusiasts, musicians, and... Continue Reading →
A post to spread the word. After a brief hiatus, the Beat Cypher returns on June 27th at a new location. Here is Justin's note on this from the official Facebook Group. “Hey everyone! Beat Cypher update: Madelife has officially moved to a new location. I will be holding the next cypher here on Thursday... Continue Reading →
In early May 2019 I flew out to attend and perform an original electronic music set at the Mountain Skies festival near Asheville, NC. It was a really fun weekend and I had a great time performing one track from 2014 album Fear Cannot Save Us, plus 4 brand new songs. Checkout a video of... Continue Reading →
Last summer I was experimenting with some interactive visuals with live camera input (as I do) to create an an alien overlay on my face. Was this inspired by John Carpenter's They Live? Of course it was - haha. I thought it worked really well for my song "Infected" from my album REBOOT and made... Continue Reading →
On Thursday March 28th I performed a set at Beat Cypher at madelife in Boulder. Here is an Instagram video with some snippets of some of the performances including mine which is first. Thanks to https://www.instagram.com/eddiecii/ for footage. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvo7fT4BngS/ I'm playing lead synth parts on "Gonna Rise" up from the album Fear Cannot Save Us... Continue Reading →
I'm a member of the Denver Synth_Drone collective. thought_forms is a new live album recorded live at thought//forms gallery in Denver on January 11th, 2019. The album contains 11 tracks and over 51 minutes of improvisation by: Mark Mosher - Nord Lead 4bios+a+ic - Moog sub phattykuxaan-sum - eurorack modularChris Sessions - Access Virus Ti2Distance... Continue Reading →
My album Fear Cannot Save Us turns 5 years old today! While I've released singles such as "Disconnected" and podcast episodes on Sonic Encounters - this was my last full studio album. Three years in the making, it was album #3 in a series of alien invasion concept albums containing original cinematic electronica, dark ambient,... Continue Reading →
[UPDATE] Here is a recording of the show if you missed it. Tony picked out a really nice cross section from my music catalog going back to 2007. Tony Gerber is featuring artists who will be performing at the Mountain Skies Festival in Asheville in May. I'll be performing at the fest and I'm the... Continue Reading →
