A concert celebrating the Centenary of Alan R Pearlman: classic, jazz, pop, electronica, ambient & more!
April 9 @ 7:30 PM Boston, MA
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Performances by:
Michael Bierylo • Richard Bru • Jennifer Hruska Project • Massimo Ferragamo • David Frederick Jr & David Fredericks Sr • Collin Russell • Kristina Warren
Visuals by Deftly D & Jose Octavio
Massimo Ferragamo is an electronic composer, sound designer, coder, and synth builder from Florence. He was first introduced to modular synthesis by Collin Russell and has been fascinated by it ever since. Influenced by artists such as Richard Devine, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, and Burial, as well as ideas from 20th-century classical music, his work explores feedback, noisy textures, dissonant harmony, industrial sound design, and algorithmic experimentation with dense rhythmic structures. Recently, Massimo has begun shifting toward ideas related to Spectralism while also exploring approaches inspired by Minimalism and Ambient music, using negative space and subtle sonic transformation as compositional tools.
Richard Bru is an experimental electronic artist and sound designer based in Boston. His musical path began on the classical guitar, before diverging to electronic music and into the complex signal routing and voltage control of modular systems. His music explores generative, through-composed soundscapes and evolving timbral textures, heavily inspired by the advanced synthesis architectures and compositional strategies taught to him by Collin Russel, Matthew Davidson, Ryan Page, and Richard Boulanger. Raised in Germany with French, American, and Japanese heritage, Bru actively avoids stylistic categorization – an ethos reflected in his use of unconventional patches and real-time sound manipulation.
David Frederick Jr. is an award-winning composer for film, television, games, and commercials, and is a highly acclaimed sound designer, musician, synthesist, and music technologist. In addition to his work as a composer, David is an Assistant Professor of Electronic Production and Design at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. Chances are, your favorite shows, films, or brands have already felt the impact of David’s work.
Jennifer Hruska Project – Jennifer Hruska, musician, technologist, and Berklee educator, brings her current blend of live jazz and electronic performance to ARP’s Centennial Celebration. An avid ARP enthusiast, Jennifer’s band will feature several ARP synthesizers in both traditional and modern uses of the instruments. Event performers include Jennifer – pno/epno, synths, David Frederick – synths, John Hotchkiss – bass, Ed Lesser – drums.
Deftly Demolition – David ‘Deftly-D’ Dodson has been producing and performing since 1995 when Zero Times Infinity debuted. Over time, Deftly’s brand of industrial percussion and looper music has evolved into modular synthesis, both solo and in his band Phantasmagorical Cannibal Animal.
As a video artist, Deftly improvisationally blends old and new techniques from video feedback to digital effects. Deftly has collaborated with or remixed numerous artists including Merzbow, Genesis P-Orridge, Snowbeasts and Consolidated.
He DJs a weekly radio show on 90.3 FM WZBC on Monday’s from 8-10pm and runs Voidstar Productions.
Deftly-D visuals at Allston Synth City – O’Brien’s 09/11/24. Photo by Bill T Miller.
Michael Bierylo is an electronic musician, guitarist, composer, and sound designer. He has been a faculty member at Berklee College of Music since 1995 and is Chair Emeritus of the Electronic Production and Design Department, where he led the development of Berklee’s Electronic Digital Instrument Program, the Electronic Performance Minor, and the Creative Coding Minor. Major projects include artist residencies with Suzanne Ciani, Nona Hendryx, Hank Shocklee, Richard Devine, Chagall, Robert Rich, and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. He is also active in Berklee Online, Berklee’s online school, where he authors and teaches music technology courses.
Bierylo has performed throughout the United States as a member of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. As a solo electronic artist, Bierylo has performed with laptop computers and modular synthesizers in the US, Berlin, Shanghai, and Krakow, including concerts with Grammy-nominated electronic musicians BT and Terrance Blanchard. As an active member of the Audio Engineering Society, he has chaired the Electronic Instrument Design and Applications Track at national conventions, bringing together industry innovators such as Dave Smith and Dave Rossum as well as design teams from Moog, Roland, and Korg.
Collin Russell is a composer, sound designer, and educator specializing in modular synthesis and through-composed electronic music. In addition to creating sound libraries and scoring music for films, Collin releases his own personal music in genres ranging from ambient to harsh noise. His process is rooted in the melding of traditional harmonic and rhythmic structures with organic modulations, bridging the gap between familiar and explorative sound.
Collin is an assistant professor of Electronic Production and Design at Berklee College of Music. His passion for teaching originated from his work as a technical writer in the music technology industry. Currently, Collin is a technical writer, product consultant, and service technician at Instruō Modular. His writing can also be found in the Bjooks publications, Synth Gems 1 and Inspire the Music – 50 Years of Roland History.
