STUDIO UPGRADE (SUMMER 1999)

The SYNERGY STUDIO is undergoing an upgrade for the first time in about three years. We're installing a new 450 MHz Blue and White G3 Macintosh and Mark Of The Unicorn digital audio system to complement the older Digidesign ProTools / Opcode StudioVision Pro system we've been upgrading in one form or another since about 1989. Now we can run some of the new cool software synthesis packages like the BitHeadz Retro AS-1 and get those analog sounds without fighting with all of the old modular equipment as much. Since a lot of people have been asking for it, we've put up a small equipment section in the Productions & Studio page.

RECENT INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES (updated August 1999)

A couple of items have run recently. They're worth checking out:

There was a feature article in the May issue of Stereo Review's Sound and Vision. The article is called "Upstairs/Downstairs" and shows a bit of my studio at home. The article is posted at the Sound & Vision site for a while, though it's unclear how long the publisher will leave it on the server.


There's a long interview by Barry Cleveland that ran in the March 1999 issue of Electronic Musician. You can read a copy of it posted here at the Synergy site.

There was a cover story in Issue 28 (summer/fall 1998) of Progressionmagazine, page 20.

There's an interview and some sound clips posted at Cosmik Debrishttp://www.cosmik.com/aa-january99/synergy.html

Check out Synergy reviews in Babysue: http://www.babysue.com/LMNOP-Reviews-Jan-99.html#anchor2191963

There are reviews posted at Pitchfork: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/s/ . Find Synergy under the S heading.

Album reviews have been printed in Expose magazine. Their web site is athttp://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1831/expo-nl.html

USA Today had a half-page feature in the Living section on August 31, 1998. The article was posted at http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/lmds335.htm for a while, though it's unclear how long USA Today leaves old news on the server.

There have been a bunch of reviews at Spinme:

Electronic Realizations http://spinme.com/ddo/view.hts?full+1+196+2+100
Sequencer http://spinme.com/ddo/view.hts?full+1+186+2+100
Cords http://spinme.com/ddo/view.hts?full+1+186+1+100
Games http://spinme.com/ddo/view.hts?full+2+40+1+100
Audion http://spinme.com/ddo/view.hts?full+2+40+2+100
Computer Experiments Volume One http://spinme.com/ddo/view.hts?full+2+82+1+100
The Jupiter Menace http://spinme.com/ddo/view.hts?full+2+101+1+100
Semiconductor http://spinme.com/ddo/view.hts?full+2+13+1+100
Metropolitan Suite http://spinme.com/ddo/view.hts?full+2+101+2+100

Wind & Wire's July/August, 1998 issue ran an interview with Larry Fast by Judy Markworth which is posted with permission here on this site.

electronicmusic.com ran an interview in 1997.

so did MIX MAGAZINE May,1997 page 84

more to come . . .