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Part 2 of series on Primal Energy and how it works against and with your dog.

Primal Energy Podcast Part 2

THE JESTER | Music by Stuart Diamond | Words by Robert Host

The Jester is one of my favorite works. It is an electronic song-cycle created with the first commercial analog synthesizers, including a classic Buchla modular system, a full-studio ARP 2500, and the Baldwin Electric Harpsichord.  Recorded on one of the first Ampex AG-440 analog tape recorders. 

For those who know or care about such matters, these were the crucible instruments of their time.

The work itself is primitive, yet perhaps primal. It is an hallucinogenic, nightmare trip into a sonic dreamscape, a place where a Christ figure and The Jester fuse into a mocking, jousting Savior.

The Jester

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

Nelkenmix

Pianistic Retrospectives

Indecision

Beautiful instrumental music, exciting concerts and webcasts, music for your imagination and creative inspiration.

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. 


Indecision

Don Slepian

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