atFulcrum

Right, it's been about six years since I've hung out hereillness and assorted stressors kind of precluded itso most of you won't remember me. So perhaps an update is in order. Significance of handle: atFulcrum is the name of my project a/k/a one-man band. This would make it easy for you to find me on iTunes or Spotify, for example. Physical location: I divide my time between Connecticut, whose major exports are tobacco, smog, sleet, and corporate yes men for New York City big shots, and southern California, where the curtains are drawn but the rest of the interior design accessories are real. And even that is merely alleged. Recent accomplishments: Released an album of progressive rock, Luminous City, and an album of meditative piano improvisations, Movement Along A Path, in 2009, neither of which are available now (but soon again I hope!). Released another album of progressive rock, Describing An Arc (I: Over The Curve), last year, and this album is very available. Working on its follow-up as we speak, along with a second improvisational album, a third of EDM, and a fourth being written with my GF, equal parts prog, new wave, and plainsong. Tracking and mixing the next album for my band in Orange County. Not-nearly-so-recent accomplishment: Keyboard Corner X; my track somehow actually led the proceedings off. Axes: keyboards (oh hahahahaha really?), voice, drums, percussion, guitar here and there, very simple woodwinds, and... Influences: (a tragedy in two acts) Composers and songwriters from whom I have tried to learn something: Bach, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Ravel, Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoenberg, Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin, Zappa, Ellington, Brubeck, Metheny/Mays, Lennon/McCartney, Pete Townshend, Joe Jackson, Keith Emerson, Tony Banks, Dave Stewart, Jem Godfrey, Neal Morse, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, Kevin Gilbert, Becker/Fagen, Difford/Tilbrook, Tori Amos, and to infinity and beyond... Keyboardists I have tried to understand (and largely failed to, thanks to rusty technique and lack of discipline): Emerson, Banks, Stewart, Mays, Brubeck, Hornsby, Godfrey, Evans, Corea, Hancock, Basie (don't judge! He taught me about economy) Equipment: (a comedy in three acts) --currently under hand-- -- hardware -- Korg Kronos X7 Mac Mini (2013) M-Audio Keystation 88 Pro M-Audio Axiom 61 Casio XW-G1 Casio XW-P1 Kurzweil K-2000 MOTU Traveler Focusrite Saffire Pro Allen & Heath GS3V 32x8x2 console -- software -- Apple Logic Pro 9.1.8 numerous plugs from Native Instruments, Arturia, Rob Papen, XLN Audio, Eventide, Waves, WaveArts, Lexicon, and Sonalksis, which either make noise or process it -- waiting in the wings -- old kit such as a MicroMoog, Chroma Polaris, Ensoniq EPS, Yamaha DX5, SPX90, RX11, QX21, and other fiddly things I can't remember now. Age: fitty-sumfin Hair: no thank you Eyes: hazel Weight: 12 stone Scotch: neh, I drink 1800. When I drink. Which isn't often. Good to be back, or sort of back.

Well, there go 227 posts down the tubes. I'm a newbie again. Haven't visited here in ages upon ages, during which time the forum software got confused about me for the second time. I used to be Fulcrum until the day I tried to log in with that name and was advised that that name had already been taken; later as Fulc, but after time and a half went by the software no longer recognized either handle. So I signed up again as Fulcrum. Really, I'm not a multiple identity; I only had this one when I woke up this morning. To recapitulate and update what I said a few years ago, along with a few of the tired jokes I used then: Significance of handle: @Fulcrum is the current name of my project, a progressive jam band. Physical location: somewhere in the wilds of suburban Connecticut. Recent accomplishments: two albums on iTunes, a proggy one under the @Fulcrum name called Luminous City, and a new-agey one under my own name called Movement Along A Path. Currently working on a two-disc follow-up to the first @Fulcrum album, if it doesn't kill me first. Gigging with numerous bands in the Bridgeport and New Haven areas. Reiki II attuned. Axes: composer, keyboards (oh hahahahaha really?), voice Equipment: -- hardware -- MacBook Pro 2.4GHz yada yada yada MOTU Traveler M-Audio Axiom 61 Carvin FX 1244 desk -- software -- Logic Studio and its attendant soft synths and FX plugs Native Instruments Absynth, Battery, Massive, and B4 Rob Papen Albino and Predator XLN Addictive Drums numerous other AU plugs and instruments -- waiting in the wings -- old kit such as a MicroMoog, Ensoniq EPS, Chroma Polaris, two count'em two Oberheim Matrix-1000s, and other fiddly things I can't remember now or aren't worth mentioning. Age: getting damn near 50 Hair: none Eyes: hazel weight: 13 stone Scotch: shyeah right, I drink Remy Martin VSOP. Good to be back..