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Ralphykeys

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Ralphykeys will perform on March 18, 2023 at 3:20PM ET.
His presentation, Intro To Eurorack Modular Synthesis, will occur at 4:15PM ET in Durgin room 204.
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Ralph Kinscheck is a Teacher/Trainer; Video Producer; Audio Engineer; Performer/Recording Artist; Technician; and Businessman/Entrepreneur.      

Ralph currently teaches “Producing Music with Logic Pro” at Berklee Online. 

Ralph also teaches privately one-on-one and in groups, teaching modular synthesis, synthesizer programming, music production. He also works as a coach, teaching basic entrepreneurship to freelance musicians.                                               

As a former Apple Certified Trainer for both Logic and Final Cut Studio Applications, Ralph taught classes up and down the East Coast, given clinics and worked with all types of clients from local studio owners to Editors from NESN, WGBH, Comcast and Hasbro.

He also leads a Logic Pro User’s Group online.

He has produced videos of various concerts and functions, including events at Berklee College. He was part of an early attempt to live stream local band performances online in the late 90s. He currently produces his own music videos found online at YouTube.com

He has run sound for events all over Boston including the Garden and Lowell Auditorium and Tsongas Arena. 

He has produced albums in various studios around Boston, as well as doing sound design for various independent film releases.                                           

Ralph has been in the music industry for almost 40 years, initially performing live on keyboards at venues across the US and Europe. As time progressed he was found on multiple albums over the years, that have garnered national airplay on terrestrial radio and now on the web through streaming platforms like Apple Music and Spotify  

He has also been known to take on management duties.  

As an artist Ralph is currently reinventing himself as producer DJ, writing and producing Synthwave and Techno Electronic music with Computers, Analog Synthesizers and Modular Synths, aka ralphykeys.com 

As a Technician he consults for various studios and independent producers throughout the Boston Area. He previously worked as a tech for Berklee College of Music’s  

Since 1998 Ralph has run Kinscheck Productions (KiProductions.com), a local Production Company in Massachusetts providing all the services mentioned above.

Bob Familiar 

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Bob Familiar will perform on March 18, 2023 at 3:40PM ET
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Bob Familiar came to Boston in the late 70’s to attend Berklee College of Music. He soon joined the underground music scene as a member of the band The Dark. It is in in this context that he found his passion for sound design, electronic instruments, improvisational composition and the art of recording, mixing and mastering. Today, Bob composes electronic synthwave, downtempo, ambient, and contemporary orchestral music. His compositions combine a framework of generative rhythmic and melodic elements with live performance.

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A. Campbell Payne 

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A. Campbell Payne will perform on March 18, 2023 at 4:20PM ET
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A. Campbell Payne is a musician living in Massachusetts whose practice revolves around time, repetition, chance, and perception. Payne’s approach to composition is characterized by complex rhythmic structures, a harmonic vocabulary that explores consonant intervals in just intonation, and the use of complex generative systems. Drawing inspiration from dance, the history of computing and telecommunications, and the movement of nearby celestial bodies, Payne creates sonic environments that are at once approachable and disorienting.

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Darth Presley

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Darth Presley will perform on March 18, 2023 at 5:40PM ET
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I have had some horribly disturbing waking dreams of being a monstrous apparition, part-man, but mostly machine; soulless and demonic, terrorizing man and beast alike with sounds unlike any other, sounds that alternately inspire and chill, lifting spirits only to dash them again on some distant rocky shore comprised of dissonance and psychotic visions. I am haunted by sizable blackouts, what some refer to as lost time, and frequently awaken in unknown locations, smelling of Malört and regret with nothing to explain my activities save for a plectrum and a few patch chords.

Metal Tiger 

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Metal Tiger will perform on March 18, 2023 at 12:00PM ET
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Metal Tiger aka Sam Holland has been obsessed with electronic music and instrumental beats since he first heard DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing in high school. His hip-hop inflected electronic beats are both funky and experimental, groovy and spiritual. He got a real education in bass and bleeps in South Florida as part of the legendary IDM scene there, playing with acts such as Machinedrum and Flashbulb.

Returning to the Boston area, he has worked on the development of the MPC sampler, helped run the popular Meetup group Boston Modular and Synth, and thrown shows at venues like Dorchester Arts Project and Mayday. He is the founder of World Elevator Society Records, and is a member of Recursor with Archvillainy and Solune with Sophia Perennis. Metal Tiger’s influences include DJ Krush, Prefuse 73, Machinedrum, Orbital, and the RZA.

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