Members (G-L)
Here we present some of our members' and their studios, with links to some of their sites.
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Charles Graef
Vogelscheiss Unterseeboot
Gear List
Peter Grenader
Peter Grenader studied composition with an emphasis in electro-acoustic music at the California Institute of the Arts under the guidance of Barry Schrader and Mort Subotnick. In 2002, Grenader's Electrolux won the Perịdic Experimental Music Festival in Barcelona, Spain. Other performances include the 2003 SEAMUS National Conference, the University of North Texas, the California Institute of the Arts, Stony Brook University, University of Illinois, University of Texas, Florida Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, the Pulse Field at Georgia State University and the 2003 Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival at Dartmouth. His work as also been presented on radio on KCSN-FM, Los Angeles; CKCU-FM, Ottawa, Canada; WOBC 91.5 FM in Oberlin, Ohio and streaming on Resonance FM, London.
Past palmares include The Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, Holland and GMEB in Bourges, France and two wins at the Virginia Commonwealth University Music Festival.
Steve Hanlon
I live in the Baltimore, Maryland area and used to be a rave DJ. I didn't like the hours, and moved into gear whoring in the mid 90's. I sold the bulk of the gear in 2001-2002. Finally I found a setup that works for my style, dub ambient trance and warehouse techno. I'm also a trainspotter and an amateur radio operator. I am married and have a son. My most missed bit of kit is the MS-20.
Mike Kent
I play keyboard Synthesizers, EVI (Electronic Valve Instrument) and Trumpet.
I perform regularly, much more than I compose or record. I work for Roland,
I am Musical Director at my church, and I teach a little bit, too.
My first synthesizer was a Roland SH-1000 in 1977. I had studied trumpet seriously from age 7 to University. But I fell in love with synthesizers, partly because of the toy/gadget factor and partly because I love electronic
sounds: thick, screaming, blippy, warm, thin, annoying, fat, smooth, soothing, huge, sweet, cheesy, wide, etc. I think I have always excelled at melody and harmony but in recent years I'm also I'm gaining better aptitude with tempo and rhythm. I've been making music for 35 years and I'm still learning.
Dave Lovelace
Just call me Dave. I'm the guy the draws occasional "Packrat" toons over at MusicThing. I've made two ramshackle progressive electronic wankfest albums under the "Parallax" moniker, with a third in the works over at Redshift Digital Audio. I've been cartooning equally as long as I've been playing keyboards and keyboard-shaped things (first on Dad's Lowrey organ in '74, then I moved on to a Juno-106 in '84). I've lived mostly in Connecticut all my life, but wouldn't mind moving somewhere more interesting.
If I was half as motivated to buy a plane ticket as I am buying some clunky old synthy contraption I'd be a much happier guy. The Packrat and I have the same horrible sickness and this fun li'l forum will surely only make it worse! Still on my wishlist are an Elka Synthex and Yamaha CS-80. When I'm old and arthritic I swear to God I'll finally have these things to bang my useless stumps on. No,
it's not about the gear...it's about THAT gear.
