"OTP is both honored & thrilled to present An Evening In the Company of the Joy Circuits featuring TONTO’s Expanding Head Band pioneer Malcolm Cecil, in his first U.S. performance in over 30 years, along with aural sculptors Spitznagel & Trevor Pinch...For his OTP debut, Cecil will not only bring a number of the original TONTO synth modules but his trusty upright bass as well, all of which to bring forth a stunning hybrid of keyboard virtuosity, 70s synth-jazz, and his own brand of post-classical-flavored electronic music."
See One Thousand Pulses for the full details. If anyone makes this, send in some pics.
via Jeff of The Tangeant Project who will be performing at OTP in November.
More info on the artists:
posts featuring Malcolm Cecil
posts featuring Spitznagel
posts featuring Trevor Pinch
posts featuring The Tangeant Project
I will try to attend this... but here's what I find amusing. Tell me if I missed anything in this self-contradicting statement:
ReplyDeleteStarts out this way:
"TONTO itself is an acronym for "The Original New Timbral Orchestra", the world's first (and still largest) multitimbral polyphonic analog synthesizer, designed and constructed by Cecil. Its warm, rich timbres were particularly noteworthy and still cannot be recreated by the current breed of MIDI digital synthesizers and samplers."
...and then goes to say this:
"Cecil & his son have since devised a form of "virtual" TONTO (the original instrument being a too large and impractical object for live performance use); it is our honor to host Cecil & his contemporary version of TONTO here at OTP."
Am I missing something?