AKASHA

Illusion of Solidity

I originally wrote “Man of Music” in the mid-1980s  for The StarScape Singers, an extraordinary chorale group from Toronto. But after working on it for a while, we decided it was really an orchestra work in spirit.

Never one to be dismayed, I recreated it first as a multi-track synth work, playing all the parts myself. A few years later, with the advent of the first notation software, I expanded the piece and scored it for full orchestra. Occasionally, I would attempt to create an electric orchestra version. But the technology, at least to my ears, was not up to the task. In the last few months, I dusted it off and finally produced a version that I feel is listenable.

So here it is - as a six-and-a-half minute overture titled “Man of Music,” dedicated to the conductor and founder of StarScape, Dr. Kenneth G. Mills.

Listen on good speakers or headphones for the best fidelity if you can.
SD
October 2024

Man Of Music.

Chaos (Wusik 8000 and Wusik Station V8 Demo)

For Iktus Ensemble. At Charlotte Music Festival.

Night Sky (2016)

Tweaking my early yellow Synthi E and the Triko, one take live recording.

Synthi E 1

For the collaboration "Circling the Waves", after Virginia Woolf's novel "The Waves". https://www.circlingthewaves.com/

Michiko Theurer, violin

Net of Wings

VCS3 MK2 with MK1 output and reverb amps hybrid card.
Recorded directly from the VCS3 outputs.
Other mods are Portabellabz S&H and full range internal speakers better than the original ones.

VCS3

A great Synthi (ex Boz Burrell's) on a great custom tube amp.
Recorded in front of the speaker.

Heavily modified Synthi A MK1 with added KS. 
One take live recording directly from the outputs. 

NEVER attempt to connect a KS to a Synthi A MK1 unless it was properly modified for this purpose. This would fry the original MK1 PSU that is not able to power a KS.

EMS Synthi AKS MK1

"Red" is named after the bright scarlet chord that begins this piece and returns at the most dramatic moments.

Cantata Profana
Jacob Ashworth, violin
Hannah Levinson, viola
Madeleine Fayette, cello
Miki Sawada, piano

Illusion of Solidity

Patrice DeVincentis