hi scott, not technically synth stuff, but i downloaded some solo gert-jans prins mp3's yesterday after reading his piece in the wire, and it's pretty great (gjp.info). in case you don't get the wire, he works with gutted/home-built radios and some other simple electronics (mostly modulators if i understood the interview correctly). also, there's a cd on one of the boxmedia (boxmedia.com) "cd-r series" by a-d relay, aka synth-player robert wilkus, called "do the math," which i've been enjoying a lot lately. it's pretty noisy and fun, though it sounds like it didn't get much of a real mastering job and thus lacks a bit of the in-your-face-ness (in-your-face-osity?) that you might want for this sort of thing. boxmedia also put out a double cd of piano/synth player jim baker with michael zerang, one disc of which is all synth. i haven't heard the whole thing, though i heard some tracks a while ago, and i remember liking the synth work a lot. hope that helps, jesse

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Message: 8 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 10:45:59 -0800 (PST) From: "K. Scott Handley" <thesubtlebody@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: synthesizer pedantry, ipecac To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com

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ems synthi? -j.

I know this might miss the point of the initial post, but could people recommend some shit-hot synth action? Particularly interested in performance/improv of the Building New Edifices of Paramusical Consciousness variety, as opposed to the School of Noodly Presets Keyboardist Desiring Lead Guitarist Status school. I was listening to Thomas Lehn's totally bad realtime EMS Synthi-A acrobatics on FELDSTARKEN (Random Acoustics) the other day and was inspired. I also remember liking the young Bob OStertag's analog synth work on the Anthony Braxton creative orchestra at Koln 1978 recordings on HatArt.

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