Projects

The Foundation has started to establish a permanent collection of electronic instruments and historic artifacts designed by, or inspired by Alan R. Pearlman and ARP Instruments, both new and old.

The collection will reside in a recording studio where the instruments can be played. As such, the Foundation intends to offer residencies to young or unknown artists that wish to create and record new works using these instruments.

The digital archives will reside in several locations will contain patch and sound libraries and a wide array of media and technology resources.

Locations will be announced in Fall 2020.

As a direct result of the global pandemic, The Foundation has launched a series of Live Streaming virtual studio visits hosted by Executive Director Dina Pearlman.

These include live interviews, performances, sound design lectures and demonstrations with various members of the synthesizer community.

Kicking off with Alex Ball, the ARPchiveLive! series has included David Mash, Jamie Billings, David Frederick, Don Lewis, Jennifer Hruska and Ian ST∆ER.

The electronic music instrument industry would not be what it is today without Alan Pearlman’s drive to research and develop some of the first synthesizers ever made. The foundation intends to support the future inventors of electronic instruments by sponsoring Scholarships to students in order to study engineering focused on new electronic instrument designs. These scholarships would be in association with colleges who have well-known and innovative engineering schools such as MIT Media Lab, RPI, WPI (Alan’s alma mater), RIT and others to be determined.

Electronic instruments need to find their way into the hands of artists who create new works of art. These works not only fulfill humanities multi-faceted need for art, but they can also inspire and educate other artists to use electronic instruments in their work. In addition, new works of art will continue to expand the state-of-the-art, ensuring high standards for both electronic instrument design and artistic works.

The Foundation intends to sponsor recognized electronic artists to create new works of art. Because education was important to Alan Pearlman, we envision the Artist-in-Residence program to be part of a school program to ensure students are involved and inspired with such new works.

The Foundation intends to establish a permanent collection of electronic instruments designed by, or inspired by Alan R. Pearlman, both new and old. The collection will likely reside in a recording studio or other facility where the instruments can be played.

As such, the foundation intends to offer grants and residencies to young or under-funded artists that wish to create and record new works using these instruments.

The Foundation intends to sponsor and host a concert at Berklee College of Music in the summer of 2020, in conjunction with a celebration of Alan R. Pearlman’s 95th birthday. This concert is intended to bring awareness to the Foundation and its activities. The concert will be inclusive of students and established artists, as well as women and other under-represented groups.

“There’s no place like NAMM, there’s no place like NAMM.” The Foundation hopes to someday partner with musicians and manufacturers to hold events such as an annual NAMM Jam using originals and modern versions of ARP instruments and software.

The event will act to celebrate the early NAMM Jam events from the 1970s.