One Night Only!
PLUG-IN TO AN EXPANSIVE SONIC EXPERIENCE

An evening of Extraordinary Electronic  Music With:

West Coast Modular Masters: Todd Barton, Thomas Dimuzio , and Doug Lynner.

This unique concert consists of solo performances cumulating with all three artists joining together for an improvised set.

About the Artists:

Todd Barton is a sonic adventurer, composer, educator, and performer of abstract, freely improvised electronic music specializing in Buchla, Serge, and Hordijk electronic musical instruments. For four decades, he was Composer in Residence for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and taught Music Composition and Electronic and Computer Music at Southern Oregon University.  In addition to electronic music, Todd has composed for the KRONOS Quartet, the Oregon Symphony, the Rogue Valley Symphony, and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra. His music can be heard on all major internet platforms. He widely shares his electronic music explorations, demos, and tutorials via YouTube and Instagram and offers private online sessions for clients and students worldwide.

Thomas Dimuzio is a musician, composer, improviser, sound designer, mastering engineer, label proprietor, and music technologist based in San Francisco. His music is an immersive sonic journey, transporting listeners to otherworldly auditory realms. As Peter Marsh of the BBC describes, “His work has a narrative, cinematic tug that will draw you into its dark corners, ears alert…brilliant and rarely less than entertaining.”  Numerous labels have internationally released Dimuzio’s recordings, and he has collaborated with a wide array of artists, including  Chris Cutler, Nick Didkovsky, Fred Frith, David Lee Myers, Marcia Bassett, Voice of Eye, 5uu’s, Matmos, Wobbly, and Negativland. 
His performances have graced notable venues and festivals such as the AngelicA Festival Internazionale di Musica, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, CCRMA at Stanford, Recombinant Media Labs Buchla Memorial, and the Ende Tymes Festival of Experimental Art and Liberation. His current Sculpting Electric series features compositions made using the innovative Buchla 200 series. Dimuzio also hosted KPFA’s Frequency Modulation Radio, featuring live on-air performances by sonic innovators exploring the fringes of music.

Doug Lynner is a San Francisco Bay Area composer/performer (and an executive producer of this event), known for his intimate, “In-The-Circuit” modular synthesizer performance style. That style, combined with his devotion to the intrinsic value of sound, has given birth to his  “Living Synthesis” compositions - part fixed composition, part improvisation, and part circuit immersion. He creates unique instruments for each performance that are self-active and cross-influencing. He performs through direct interaction with each instrument’s autonomic activities through their knobs, switches, and patch cords. Doug received a BFA in Music Composition from the California Institute of the Arts, where his mentors were Morton Subotnick, Harold Budd, James Tenney, Leonid Hambro, and Nicholas England. There, he recorded on the Buchla 200 and began a lifelong relationship with Serge Tcherepnin — creator of the Serge Modular System.
He was the editor and publisher of Synapse Magazine, the first electronic music magazine, and is known for his Patch of The Week modular synthesizer video tutorial series, and as an educator specializing in modular instruments and music composition.