John Ångstrøm
NicomSoft/G2500: Tech partner, Creative input, Collaborator, Techology Manager, CTO, Musician
David Baron
David Baron’s melancholic baroque pop sound is influenced by Woodstock where he’s based, analogue & modular synths which he collects and the Classical Music he’s scored in great abundance. When not making music for UK label Here & Now Recordings, Baron works with The Lumineers, Lenny Kravitz, Bat for Lashe, Simone Felic, Meghan Trainor, Shawn Mende, Phoebe Bridgers, Josin, Melanie De Biasio, Conor Oberst, Peter Murphy,(from Bauhaus) and is lead composer & soundtrack producer for Gregory Colbert’s follow up to Ashes and Snow. Ashes & Snow, the most attended exhibition by any living artist ever was soundtracked by the late Jóhann Jóhannsson.
2020 sees the release of Baron’s Whisperers album with Donna Lewis, Lettie, Fiona Glenn, Tony Levin, Craig Ross, Rubin Kodheli, Cindy Mizell & more. In 2018 Grammy award winning artist Lenny Kravitz perfomed live on CNN Heroes with David Baron on piano. Baron released cinematic debut album Cycles in 2017. Instrumental music with rare analog modular synthesizers, string sections and grand pianos recorded in a concert hall, hyper-processed acoustic instruments, and advanced Kyma-based sound design. In 2016 on Bat For Lashes Mercury Music Prize nominated album The Bride David Baron was responsible for synthesizers, string arrangements and mixing. In 2015 David Baron performed on, arranged and conducted Meghan Trainor’s Epic Records, multi-platinum, Number One album which featured Grammy Song of the Year Nominee ‘All About That Bass‘.
David Friend
David Friend and Alan R. Pearlman co-founded ARP Instruments. ARP Instruments developed synthesizers used by Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and even helped Steven Spielberg communicate with aliens providing that legendary five-note communication in Close Encounters of the ThirdKind.
Friend founded or co-founded five other companies including Carbonite immediately prior to—his current company Wasabi.
David is a respected philanthropist and is on the board of Berklee College of Music, where there is a concert hall named in his honor, serves as president of the board of Boston Baroque, an orchestra and chorus that has received 7 Grammy nominations.
An avid mineral and gem collector he donated Friend Gem and Mineral Hall at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. David graduated from Yale and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow.
Pablo Garreton
Pablo Garretón is a Chilean composer, Licentiate in Music Composition and Master of Arts from the Catholic University of Chile, where he studied with Cristian Morales and studied a Master of Electronic Music with Michael Beil at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne.
Garretón focuses his works in instrumental and electroacoustic music as well as interactive art, multimedia, performance and analogue synthesizers. He participated as composer and performer with live electronics in various theater and dance companies. Since 2010 he is also part of the Taller Ciclo, with which he has developed various musical works related to electroacoustic music and improvisation. His works have been played in Chile, Argentina, Perou, Finland and Germany where his concerts with Musik Fabrik, Ensemble Garage and Electronic ID stand out.
He has received scholarships from the Goethe Institute and the Festival for New Music Theater Munich to work in two art residencies in Buenos Aires and Lima. In 2017 he participated in a three months multidisciplinary art residency in Berlin with the Drittes Territorium Project working with sounds of the city’s abandoned places.
Garreton was awarded with a two years scholarship of the Chilean Ministry of Culture and recently got a prize at the Acht Brücken Festival’s International Composition Competition. He recently finished a residency program in Paris at the Cité International des Arts with a six months scholarship from Nord-Rhein Westfalen Ministry of Culture and Science. He is currently in his last year of a Konzert Examen program in composition at the HfMT in Cologne.
Jean-Michel Jarre
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Composer, performer, producer. Visionary, innovator, cultural ambassador. Any list of Jean-Michel Jarre’s countless factettes would come short of his actual significance in music history. “JMJ” is a living legend and often referred to as the “Godfather of Electronic Music”. When Jarre launched his landmark- debut album “OXYGENE” in 1976, he opened a new chapter in music history. The record has sold over 18 million copies and laid the foundations for his exceptional career.
Balancing between the spheric-abstract and the very direct melodic foundations of his music, Jarre manages to evoke the poetry of encounter and connection: between people, between handmade and high-tech, between organic and artificial, between wisdom and vision.
Jarre’s pioneering work gave birth to a veritable cult at the beginning of the fastest-growing trend the music industry has ever stood to witness: the rise of electronic music.
Almost five decades later Jarre is as relevant as ever. In 2017 Jarre, who has sold more than 80 million records throughout his career, was nominated for a Grammy for his bestselling album “ELECTRONICA 1: THE TIME MACHINE”.
With technology on the forefront on everything we do, Jarre quotes today as “the most exciting time to make music”. With his first memoirs to be released in the autumn and a mind full of new ideas for music projects it is only question of time for Jarre to surprise us with a brand-new technology driven, exciting studio release.
Brian Kehew
Brian Kehew is a Los Angeles-based producer, engineer, and musician. He is best-known as co-author of the Recording The Beatles, a technical look at the Fab Four’s recordings. He has worked as a synthesizer programmer for Moog, Alesis, John Bowen’s Solaris, and Casio. He has played keyboard with The Who, Moog Cookbook, Hole, Dave Davies, and many others.
Hans Kulk
Chris Meyer
Chris Meyer learned how to use modular synthesizers as a teenager in the 1970s. In the 80s and 90s, he contributed to the design of synthesizers, samplers, and digital audio recorders at Sequential Circuits and Roland Corporation, and created the Vector Synthesis synthesis algorithm used in the Prophet VS, Yamaha SY-22 & TG-33, and Korg Wavestation & Wavestate. More recently, he is the co-author of Patch & Tweak, which is considered to be the new reference book for modular synthesists. He continues to share and teach several generations of musicians how to tame these beasts through his site LearningModular.com.
Jim Michmerhuizen
Jim Michmerhuizen has worked as a night watchman, newspaper intern, stereo equipment salesman, recording engineer, and reference librarian. He wrote instruction manuals for Arp Instruments, Oberheim, EML, and WayOutWare; he founded and led the Boston School of Electronic Music throughout its lifetime in the 1970’s. Eventually he found employment as a software architect and engineer.
Since retiring, he has conducted poetry workshops in Hyde Park, Massachusetts.
Selections from his BachWorks project are online at Soundcloud.com
James R Moses
Jim is an audio producer, composer, sound designer, engineer, and musician. He has worked extensively in electro-acoustic music, radio broadcasting, theatrical sound design, and live and studio music production. He currently is technical director and lecturer at the Brown University Music Department and MEME (multimedia and electronic music experiments) program.
Compositions and sound designs include work presented by the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), Pixilerations Festival (Providence Firstworks), Free Music Archive, The Acoustical Society of America, The New Jersey Opera Festival, Providence Black Rep, and The Princeton Composers Ensemble.
Music recording and live sound engineering includes extensive work in a wide variety of genres from classical and jazz to experimental, electronic and popular styles. Label credits include Musicmasters/BMG, Bridge records, Composers Recordings Inc., Lyricord, GM Recordings.
John Niclasen
John Niclasen of NicomSoft, Denmark. Software engineer since 1988. Head of software company, NicomSoft, since 1991. cand.scient. in Physics with Speciality in Astrophysics from Niels Bohr Institute, 2016. Musician, Developer of G2500, the virtual ARP 2500.
Barry Ober
Barry’s career covers nearly the entire spectrum of the audio world. His early interest in music, guided by his piano teacher mother, led to learning the trumpet and drums and studying classical music, while his early interest in electronics and audio was guided by his father.
Engineering jobs with both Moog and Arp Synthesizer companies in the late 1960’s and early 70’s led to a move to Boston where he built a number of famous recording studios, such as Intermedia Studios on Newbury Street.
Once again an independent audio pioneer, Barry lives in North Carolina with his magical wife and MANY cats. Barry was the Senior Tech Support Engineer for JL Audio for the HOME products line of subwoofers, their installation, setup and service, for over 8 years.
Soundoctor is the culmination of the experience of a lifetime in audio coupled with the premise that YOU CAN GET THE MOST BANG FOR THE BUCK in audio. (Read Full Bio here.)
Vince Pupillo Sr.
Vince Pupillo is the Founder and President of EMEAPP (Electronic Music Education Preservation Project). His passion for music started at age 9, when he began playing the organ at church, as he did so for the next 22 years. In 1974, he purchased his first Minimoog synthesizer with tips he earned as a waiter.
“I remember my first mission was to learn to play Lucky Man”, says Vince, who played in several cover and original material bands throughout high school and college.
In 1979, after earning a bachelors degree in business, Mr. Pupillo married his highschool sweetheart, MaryEllen. Together, they raised 3 uniquely talented children who are an integral part of his story. Over the years, Vince took the family’s small produce company and became a national player in the supermarket fresh prepared food category.
After spending 15 years assembling a very targeted collection of rare electronic music related media & gear, Vince founded another legacy institution, EMEAPP. Pupillo is now carrying the torch of electronic music preservation. By his founding of EMEAPP, future generations will have the opportunity to appreciate the history and sounds of Electronic Music through multiple education platforms.
Says Pupillo, “Music was an important part of my life growing up. Music teaches discipline, builds confidence, and provides unparalleled satisfaction from mastering a challenging piece, be it Keith Emerson or Beethoven. Everyone deserves that opportunity and feeling.”
Vince Pupillo Jr.
Vince Pupillo Jr. is the Associate Director of EMEAPP (Electronic Music Education Preservation Project), Vince specializes in sound design, synthesizer programming and navigating the nomenclature and topology of different kinds of electronic instruments. He has been involved in the collecting and preservation of electronic instruments since childhood, which eventually led to the formation of EMEAPP as the means to share the collection with the world. Vince is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Saint Joseph’s University of Philadelphia with a degree in Family Business and he began the process of building the EMEAPP business model in his business classes. Internships at both RetroLinear and Philly Sound Studios introduced him to many individuals who would eventually become a part of the EMEAPP family. Vince’s passion for the Collection runs deep and he wants to continue this legacy for future generations to appreciate and experience.
Asha Tamirisa
Asha Tamirisa [she/her/hers] works with sound, video, film, and researches media histories. Asha has performed at venues such as the ICA Boston, Bitforms Gallery (NYC), has given talks at the University of Michigan, Mount Holyoke College, Oberlin College, and Wheaton College, and held residencies at The Media Archeology Lab (Boulder, CO), Perte de Signal (Montreal, CA) and I-Park Foundation (East Haddam, CT). Asha’s work has been mentioned in the Oxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aesthetics and the 5th Edition of Electronic and Experimental Music: Technology, Music, and Culture (Routledge). Along with many colleagues, Asha co-founded OPENSIGNAL, a collective of artists concerned with the state of gender and race in electronic music and art practice. She now works with the organization TECHNE (technesound.org). Asha has taught courses at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Girls Rock! Rhode Island, and Street Level Youth Media in Chicago. Asha holds a Ph.D. in Computer Music and Multimedia and an M.A. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University, and is currently an Assistant Professor at Bates College.
Kristina Warren
Kristina Warren is a composer, improviser, and maker. She writes and performs acoustic and electronic sound using instruments she and others made. Her first solo album, filament (2019, released as petra), is “precise and unpredictable, making repeat listens irresistible” (Marc Masters), while her bespoke wearable electronic instrument Exo.Rosie sees her rolling around on the floor. Recent events include New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Movement and Computing Conference, and Spketrum [Berlin], and recent ensemble collaborations include Chartreuse, JACK Quartet, So Percussion, and Yarn/Wire. Currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Electronic Music & Multimedia at Brown University, Warren holds a PhD in Composition & Computer Technologies from the University of Virginia. (kmwarren.org)