Members (A-F)
Here we present some of our members' and their studios, with links to some of their sites.
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Cikira (Amanda Pehlke)
Cikira.com
Redmoon-music.com
Mushrooms Studio Gear List
An incorrigible gear junkie, Cikira is Evil Moderatrix of SynthSights (co-founded with Matthew Davidson and Tom Moravansky).
Her addiction to the Max programming language has produced RedMoon Music's offering to the emusic community: maxWerk, a loop-based MIDI composing program for Mac OS 9.
Jim Combs
Jim Combs is an Oklahoma-born, Texas-raised, and Atlanta-living keyboardist/composer, recording producer/engineer and multimedia artist who began his musical forays in the early O70s both playing piano and manipulating tape machines while recording feedback. Synthesizers entered his life in 1974 when he built a PAIA synthesizer kit and heard Rick Wakeman for the first time on a quadraphonic 8-track copy of The Six Wives Of Henry VIII. He has been making noise and music with synthesizers and recording gear ever since. Jim is currently one-half of the synthesizer duo TouchXtone.
Michael O'Conner
I've been bleeping my little heart out since 1998. An unsucessful attempt at buying live autechre bootlegs on ebay led to the founding of sluntrec with Rocco Biondo and Brendan Foley. Our little fertile crescent in Brooklyn has spawned four albums and two eps and a gaggle of gigs. While they perfect modern acid house I'm focusing on ambient techno (when I'm not doing splattersample), dedicating myself to bringing back 1994 by any means necessary. Connecting to the SynthSights hivemind has been great for bringing ideas from wildly different directions, backgrounds and approaches.
John Duval
The room is of decent size but the work area is small and compact, looks expansive due to the vaulted ceiling and two skylights above the mixing desk and two large garden windows looking out onto the wetlands area. I can reach all the tools from the desk chair just by turning one way or the other. I maintain a small working area by not adding anything unless something else leaves.Although is all looks complicated, it's a very basic setup that is easy to create music on.
