AHNE 2015 - a terrifying room full of synthesizers and their insanely lucky owners

Published on May 17, 2015 hamsterdunce

"Another month of May, another annual Analog Heaven NorthEast (AHNE) gathering. This year it all went down at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, in the rotunda of the Genko Uchida Building. Most people don't even get to see this kind of stuff in person, let alone touch it. One attendee called it a 'Synth Petting Zoo.'

This video breezes around the entire room in an almost unfairly brief fashion. Around every turn there was yet another mind-burrowing megapile of cables and knobs waiting for a scientist with a 300 I.Q. to actually figure out how to use. One presented even had a brainwave interface.

Granted, on a music level, there was about as much soul in the room as a stale can of tuna fish, but this gear isn't about soul. It's about building a sonic robot army in your basement and terrorizing your neighbors at 3AM.

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