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Date | Album | Label |
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01/04 | Astronauts Volume 2 disk 1 | Aural Films |
01/11 | Astronauts Volume 2 disk 2 | Aural Films |
01/18 | Astronauts Volume 2 disk 3 | Aural Films |
01/25 | Test of Time | SynGate |
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02/01 | Ambience |
02/08 | Namakar |
02/15 | Lanzarote Spirits |
02/22 | Psychic Dome |
02/29 | In Search of Sanity |
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Mark Jenkins has been described by Eurock Magazine as "the master synth musician in the UK."
His music is influenced by that of Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Mike Oldfield,
Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Richard Pinhas & Heldon, Yanni, John Tesh, Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Rick Wakeman,
Pink Floyd, Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Enigma, Deep Forest & Ash Ra Tempel. Many of his albums
include themes of space travel, cosmology, science fiction, ecology and exploration. He
recently became the first British musician to perform at the Greenwich Planetarium in
London and has performed throughout Europe and in the USA, Brazil, China and Russia.
Mark is influenced by the authors Iain M. Banks, Larry Niven and Richard Dawkins, and by movies including the Babylon 5 cycle and 2001: A Space Odyssey. He is an internationally published author on the subjects of music and media technology and is the editor of the online media magazine EMIX. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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03/07 | Modular Sessions 11: The Spirit of Heldon |
03/14 | Modular Sessions 12: Live in the USA disk 1 |
03/21 | Modular Sessions 19: Live in the USA disk 2 |
03/28 | Modular Sessions 20: Superhero Landing |
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Robert released his first album Sunyata in 1982. Most of his subsequent
recordings came out in Europe until 1989, when Robert began a string of
critically acclaimed releases for Fathom/Hearts of Space, including
Rainforest (1989), Gaudi (1991), Propagation (1994) and Seven Veils
(1998). His two collaborations with Steve Roach, Strata (1990) and
Soma (1992), both charted for several months in Billboard. Other
respected collaborations include Stalker (1995 with B. Lustmord),
Fissures (1997 with Alio Die) and Outpost (2002 with Ian Boddy).
Robert's contributions to multi-artist compilations have been collected
on his solo albums A Troubled Resting Place (1996) and Below Zero
(1998). His group, Amoeba, explored atmospheric songcraft on their
CDs Watchful (1997) and Pivot (2000). Live albums such as Calling Down
the Sky (2004) and 3-CD Humidity (2000) document the unique improvised
flow of his performances.
Robert has performed in caves, cathedrals, planetaria, art galleries and concert halls throughout Europe and North America. His all-night Sleep Concerts, first performed in 1982, became legendary in the San Francisco area. In 1996 he revived his all-night concert format, playing Sleep Concerts for live and radio audiences across the U.S. during a three month tour. One of those concerts was WDIY's first over night broadcast. In 2001 Robert released the 7 hour DVD Somnium, a studio distillation of the Sleep Concert experience, possibly the longest continuous piece of music ever released at the time. It's worldwide radio premier was on Galactic Travels. Robert has designed sounds for television and film scores, including the films Pitch Black, Crazy Beautiful, Behind Enemy Lines and others. His musical scores grace films by Yahia Mehamdi (Thank you for your Patience, 2003) and Daniel Colvin (Atlas Dei, 2007, with 90 minutes of Robert's music in surround); and a video installation by Michael Somoroff (Illumination, 2007). Rich works closely with electronic instrument manufacturers, and his sound design has filled preset libraries of Emu's Proteus 3 and Morpheus, Seer Systems' Reality, sampling disks Things that Go Bump in the Night, ACID Loop Library Liquid Planet, WayOutWare's TimewARP2600, and synths by Camel Audio. Rich has written software for composers who work in just intonation, and he helped develop the MIDI microtuning specification. As mastering engineer and mixer, he has applied his ear to albums in all styles, and his studio was featured twice in Keyboard Magazine, and elsewhere worldwide. Robert has been featured on this program since the very first episode. Since then, his music has graced the 1000th broadcast as well as the worldwide radio premier of his seven hour epic, Somnium, played in its entirety. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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Date | Album | Label |
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04/04 | Rainforest | Hearts of Space |
04/11 | Yearning with Lisa Moskow | Fathom |
04/18 | Shamballa | Space for Music |
04/25 | Strata with Steve Roach | Hearts of Space |
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Date | Album | Label |
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05/02 | Errance Planétaire | none |
05/09 | Exploration Spatiale | none |
05/16 | Ganymede | none |
05/23 | Microcosm | SynGate |
05/30 | Voices | SynGate |
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06/06 | Passage | e-Space Recordings |
06/13 | A Decade of Dreaming | e-Space Recordings |
06/20 | Drone Day | e-Space Recordings |
06/27 | Stone Shore with Heiki Sillaste | paper+sound |
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07/04 | New Earth |
07/11 | Geo-Ambient Excursions |
07/18 | Kinetic N-R-GEE |
07/25 | A Boat Without Oars |
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08/01 | The Attic Diaries Episode 1 |
08/08 | The Attic Diaries Episode 2 |
08/15 | The Attic Diaries Episode 3 |
08/22 | The Attic Diaries Episode 4 |
08/29 | The Attic Diaries Episode 5 |
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Alias Zone is Chris Meyer of LearningModular.com. He fell in love with electronics at the
age of six and with electronic music at the age of ten. As a teenager in the 1970s,
Chris took lessons on piano, bass, and modular synthesizers, wanting to learn how to
emulate the music he heard on albums by Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Wendy Carlos,
and others.
Not wanting to be just another starving musician, Chris hatched a plan to get an engineering degree so he could afford these toys. Just a year out of college, he landed a job with synthesizer manufacturer Sequential Circuits, where he worked on numerous instruments and created a technique known as Vector Synthesis. He went on to work for Digidesign, Marion Systems (Tom Oberheim), and eventually became chief engineer at Roland R&D US. On the side, Chris taught synthesis at UCLA Extension, wrote numerous articles for Music Technology Magazine plus a column for Keyboard, and was technical chairman of the MIDI Manufacturers Association where he created and championed numerous extensions to the MIDI specification. In addition to designing instruments, Chris also used them, playing with Richard Bugg's ensemble Cosmic Debris in the Los Angeles area in the 1990s. He took his favorite performances with this ensemble and reworked them to release the first Alias Zone album "Lucid Dreams" in 2001. It debuted at #1 on the relevant college radio charts, and went on to win the AFIM award for best independent electronic/new age release in 2002. By then, Chris had moved from the music industry to creating graphics for video and film. This distraction eventually pried him away from music until 2015, when he asked himself what did he enjoy most in life? The answer: creating sound. Chris embarked on his return to music by creating LearningModular.com to teach others how to use modular synthesizers. Originally creations of the 1960s and 70s, modular synths were back in vogue again, but few musicians had a solid grounding in the fundamentals of how to use them. This work eventually led to Chris co-authoring with Kim Bjørn the now-classic book, Patch & Tweak: Exploring Modular Synthesis. Now Chris is applying his past and new experiences to create music again, still under the name Alias Zone. Today Chris is primarily a solo act, with the modular synthesizer being the core of his personal “orchestra.” He combines the modular with other instruments ranging from polyphonic digital synthesizers to primitive hand percussion to virtual instruments in the computer, along with guest performances by friends. The result is a fusing of the past and future into brand new synthetic yet still organic soundscapes, each with an underlying story. Click on the name or logo above to go to the artist's web site. Click this banner for the Special Focus listing on WDIY's website. |
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Date | Album |
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09/05 | Lucid Dreams |
09/12 | We Only Came to Dream |
09/19 | Water Stories |
09/26 | Finite Space |
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10/03 | Electro Positronic Systems |
10/10 | The Mind Caged |
10/17 | Signals from the Earth |
10/24 | Entrancing Elemental Energies |
10/31 | Cymatic Structures |
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The gradual development of vidnaObmana from an industrial sound sculptor in 1984
to an artist equally at home in the world of electronica and contemporary composition
has been a full dimensional story that came to a close in 2005. (Or did it?) Over the
course of more than 25 years, Dirk Serries influenced the gradual growth of
ambient music from nothing but a fleeting idea by Brian Eno to an established and
challenging genre, record the classic The River Of Appearance, write a soundtrack for
the giant aquarium of the Antwerp Zoo, and work with the likes of Steve Roach, Steven
Wilson, and a symphonic orchestra. Most of all, he would demonstrate that stylistic
limitations are purely rooted in a lack of imagination. Into The Heart Of The Eternal
captures vidnaObmana in the mid-years of his creative arc when recording for Projekt.
The digital-only release gives the listener a journey into the mind of this composer,
demonstrating how his sonic world remains a unique voice in the electronic music scene.
At this point in time, digital reissues of previously deleted albums, live recordings, unreleased music and rare compilation tracks, carefully selected from the vaults of vidnaObmana and made possible by Projekt Records are being released exclusively on iTunes, including the albums being featured this month on Galactic Travels™ as well as Landscape In Obscurity. Based in Belgium, artist Dirk Serries continues his musical journey. For more information on his current endeavors, please visit dirkserries.com. Click on the name or photo above to go to the artist's web site. |
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Date | Title |
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11/07 | The Surreal Sanctuary |
11/14 | The Contemporary Nocturne |
11/21 | Soundtrack for the Aquarium disc 1 |
11/28 | Soundtrack for the Aquarium disc 2 |
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Date | Title | Label |
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12/05 | Stromschlag | Manikin |
12/12 | Earshot | Manikin |
12/19 | Analog Overdose in the Applebaum Nebula |
Ricochet Dream |
12/26 | Analog Overdose 5 | Manikin |
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