From my 1984 album "New Liberty".  Single track live improv using the Roland Jupiter 6 synth in arpeggiation mode.

Freedom

Magical Puppets

Sky In A Box

Bass line throughout the piece from the Bell Labs digital synthesizer, the "Alles Machine".  B flat penny whistle, double speed pedal steel guitar, Yamaha CS-60 analog synth.  Recorded in the spring of 1983 in Edison, NJ.  I was listening to tapes I had recorded of the Alles machine in 1980 and heard this gnarly FM sequenced bass line.  I pulled it off the source tape onto my trusty Teac 3340 and added the flute, synth, and pedal steel guitar.

Fast Motion

classical electronic keyboard improvisations

Beginnings One: Watchman's Rounds At Midnight

Nightwatch

The Haunted Palace

The first electronic space music classic, as heard on "Music From The Hearts Of Space", 1980.  A 16 minute piece that is part of the "Sea of Bliss" CD.

Sonic Perfume

Music with Lauri Paisley.  I hired her to help me get my papers in order.  We met every Tuesday.  When we were done with the work we would often jam together.  She had her ARP Omni, I had the Korg MS-20 and SQ-10.  One afternoon we recorded this piece and Lauri named it.  I played the sequencer and filters and she played the lead.  This would be Spring 1983.  We collaborated in music for about seven years.  This is from her cassette release, "Uncontrolled Voltage".  On this version Brian Van Korn plays finger drums.

Another Electric Tuesday

Gloria Mundi

The Yamaha GS1 was a predecessor to the famous DX7.  I was hired by Yamaha to do voicing for the GS1 back in April of 1980.  I created a voice that I liked and recorded this little piece during my time at the Yamaha Research & Development Center in Los Angeles.

Stars

Playing the Alles Machine one day I came upon a sequential permutation that I really liked.  Instead of playing it I simply recorded it as is with no changes to turn it into a sonic mantra.  I then overdubbed some more parts using my Korg PS3100.  I released it on a cassette on the Plumeria Productions label in 1981.  People were expected a follow-up to Sea of Bliss and were quite disappointed to hear that this is not at all that.  This is something quite different.  Perhaps this is all a bad mistake.  Perhaps I should have given the people what they wanted.   I enjoy this music on its own merits, not as ambient music but more in the genre of trance.  It is not in any way finished.  Like many things it was simply abandoned.   Some things never get finished.  Here it is.

Don Slepian Rhythm Of Life

Improvisation - live performance from the ArtMusic Coffeehouse webcast series - sometime around 2002.

Plantair

Live Performance on ArtMusic Coffeehouse webcast
Keyboard - Kurtzweil K2600
http://DonSlepian.com

Glints Of Light

Live Performance, Don Slepian, Ensoniq Mirage and Kurzweil K1000, 1991
This was my footpedal instrument, I'm mixing all the sounds with my feet as I play.

Forest Fire

Live Performance, Don Slepian, Kurzweil K2000 and Karen Bentley Pollick, violin
From album "Music Spell"


Floating World

Pianistic Retrospectives

Indecision

Recollections

A dance between a Korg Triton (rhythm and sparkles) and a Kurzweil 2600R, both being played live with a single keyboard one fine night.

Earth to Venus

Liquid Sunshine

Dance In The Enchanted Ballroom

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Don Slepian, New Age Classical Keyboardist, combines unique skills in music and electronics with a lifetime of improvised keyboard music performance.  Working in Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic genres, he performs original classically-styled music on computer instruments of his own design.  
 
"His music is already at the level of sonic and musical integration which few achieve -- simultaneously stimulating and effervescent and soothing and profound."   ---   "Hearts of Space" Music Guide
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Born into a scientific family, Slepian showed both musical and technical talent early in life. In 1968, he programmed computers and built electronic music circuitry, sculpting sound with classic electronic music studio tape techniques. Starting in 1972, he was a tester on the early internet as a member of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). While being a Synthesizer Soloist with the Honolulu Symphony, he was Music Director for Honolulu Theater For Youth, and ARP Synthesizer Sales Rep for Hawaii. As a true pioneer in electronic music, he has been presented by WNYC's “New Sounds” show in New York's Lincoln Center, by the French Ministry of Culture at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, by the Karen Baptist Church for performances in the refugee camps at the border of Burma and Thailand, and has toured in Hong Kong and Singapore, among other venues, around the world. 


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