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Steve44

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About Steve44

  • Birthday 05/12/1978

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    www.westlamusic.com
  • occupation
    Keyboard Salesman
  • hobbies
    Free Improvisation, synthesis, electro-acoustic music
  • Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  1. Dan - I had no idea that South was actually your last name.. I thought it was either a nickname or some code. I also didn't realize you have 3 Tritons! are they all the same size? And if I had a time machine I'd be in a keyobard lesson with Bach as the teacher http://www.musicplayer.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
  2. I've been avoiding this thread ever since I first eyed it, feeling that I'm at kind of an identity crisis so I shouldn't introduce myself until I choose which part to introduce. Since that ended a week ago when I found out I will be graduating, I read all the posts sometime last week and decided to follow the trend of two or three others and post on my birthday. But now I'm a day late for that too.. I am Steve. 44 is my lucky number. (No, there aren't 43 other Steves.) I just turned 23 and I am just about to graduate from Brandeis University near Boston, MA with a B.A. in Music, where I have studied a lot of composition, musicology, and taken over four years of voice lessons. I am a baritone love to sing in choirs and do a little bit of solo stuff, mostly on the opera track. But the piano is my first instrument, and I plan to return to it for serious study during the next few years, as I live at home in Northridge, CA. (Yes, technically I'm a valley boy, though I went to high school in the city.) My main focus on the piano is neither classical nor jazz performance, but rather free improvisation. I've been doing free improv for over four years now, and certainly see myself doing it for the rest of my life. I plan to increase my chops over the next few years while marketing myself so that hopefully I can give professional performances of improvisation. I've been interested in synths since I first knew what one was.. I didn't figure out what they did until high school, where we had a nice setup of six or seven independent stations each centered around an Atari 1040 or MegaST. While this wasn't that long ago, the lab hadn't been updated much so our best sampler was an S-550 (whose OS had never been updated) and that horribly slow TX16W.. The 'best' station had an M1R, a Proteus/1 and a JV-1000. So my first introduction into synths wasn't top-notch.. there were no knobs around, nothing of particularly great interest except a pair of TX816's, too many DX7II's, a Matrix-6, and all the odd numbered Roland MKS modules (10/30/50/70). My senior year I performed an all-analog rendition of the 1984 Olympics theme with tons of nasty filterings. Since that time, all that concerns me with synthesizers is expression - being able to create sounds that change in interesting ways over time and over the course of a phrase, and that respond well in real-time to your touch. It's very important to me to have as many controls as possible, from release velocity to breath control to multiple CV pedals and a volume pedal. My musical styles is mostly modern-classical, but I'm about to get heavily into groove based music because I want to integrate as much atonality into drum n bass as I can. My Gear List is as follows: Keys: Kawai K5000S Oberheim Matrix-6 Kurzweil PC88 Rack: Yamaha MU100R Oberheim Matrix-1000 (Yamaha MU90R that I'm selling) Anatek Pocket Pedal, Wind Machine with Yamaha BC1 several Rolls RFX402p volume/panner/CV pedals Fender Passport 250 Stereo Amp/submixer/PA Dell 800Mhz PC with CDRW, running Logic, Sound Forge, and Wavelab Current wish list: Sherman Filterbank2 Korg Electribe ES-1 (sampler) Tascam US-428 Creamware Elektra (or Nord micromodular, I'm undecided) Kurzweil ExpressionMate Oh, and I'll probably be working in the keyboard department at SamAsh in Canoga Park for the next few years...
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