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.