Electronic Music

Matt Johnson has emerged as one of the most talented and prolific keyboard players of the last 20 years, mostly as part of the legendary Jamiroquai, in which he both writes and performs, and more recently as a YouTube channel host where he demonstrates this love of modern and vintage synths.Chapters00:00 - Introduction00:37 - How did you get your first big break? 02:34 - Was joining Jamiroquai daunting?03:20 - What was your keyboard rig in those early days? 04:11 - Are workstations an important part of your rig? 04:55 - How did you get to write with Jay Kay?07:27 - What are you up to outside of Jamiroquai? 08:41 - What’s your rig in 2022? 11:23 - Dream gigs 12:58 - The YouTube explosion 18:20 - What new synths have stood out to you in recent years? 24:06 - What would you like to see happen in synthesizer technology next?27:24 - Matt’s home studio 31:48 - Sound designAll music composed and performed by Matt Johnson © Matt Johnson MusicMatt Johnson BiogFor the last 20 years Matt has been the keyboard player for Jamiroquai, co-writing most of the band's output during that time and co- producing the last album ‘Automaton’.In between working with the band he has recorded as a session player with numerous artists in many genres including Duffy, Ashanti, J.P.Cooper, Jax Jones, S.G.Lewis, Purple Disco Machine, Newton Faulkner, Nolwenn Leroy, Will Young and many more.Now Matt has released his debut solo record ‘With the Music’ under the Splash Blue label, with a retro Jazz Funk feel.https://www.mattjohnsonproducer.com/Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.www.failedmuso.comTwitter: @failedmusoInstagram: @failedmusoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

Describing herself as a composer, musician and robotic artist, Ivor Novello award winning artist Sarah Angliss talks to Caro C about her route into Electronic Music and how she utilises sub-frequencies, robotics and her own effects in her compositions and live performances.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:30 - Classical And Folk Beginnings00:00 - Discovering Electronic Music07:52 - Studying Infrasound12:26 - The Brown Note14:40 - Augmenting Acoustic Sounds17:46 - Using The Theremin As A Controller19:28 - The Bela Board20:48 - Using Robotics In Performances 26:20 - The Science Museum and Daphne Oram30:05 - Radio 4 And Echo 33:58 - Current Projects35:28 - Working With SynthesizersSarah Angliss BiogSarah Angliss is an Ivor Novello Award winning composer, performer and robotic artist working in television, film, on the live concert stage and in theatres across Europe and North America. Her recent work includes the music for Romola Garai’s feature film Amulet - a terse, electroacoustic score which explores the sonorities of voices and ancient instruments, revealing and augmenting them with Sarah’s distinctive digital and electronic techniques. Sarah’s music draws on her lifelong interest in European folksong, cybernetics and esoteric sound culture. These inspire her progressive and strikingly original music. Her work reflects an eclectic musical background. A classically-trained composer who specialised in baroque and renaissance music, Sarah cut her teeth performing on the UK folk scene. Her desire to get inside notes and finely manipulate sound then build her own automatic music machines led her to study electroacoustic engineering, then robotics, alongside music – fields that continue to inform her unique compositional style. Sarah received the Visionary Award from the Ivors Academy in 2021 and a Paul Hamlyn Award for Composers in 2018.Website: www.sarahangliss.comSoundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sarahanglissTwitter: @sarah_anglissInstagram: @sarah_anglissCaro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.URL: http://carocsound.com/Twitter: @carocsoundInst: @carocsoundFB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

Zoë Blade and Nina Richards talk about their individual music careers and how they came together to create the Stepper Acid Eurorack Sequencer.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:18 - Composing For Patreon and YouTube03:04 - Chiptunes05:47 - Patreon Supporters06:59 - Developing A Sound11:00 - Working With Older Machines 13:39 - Expanding The Synth Collection17:02 - Demosceners / Trackers22:26 - Working With Nina24:14 - Creating The Stepper Acid Sequencer 30:55 - The Drum Machine32:23 - Customers And The Manufacturing Process 38:02 - Using Stepper Acid Live 41:21 - Future PlansZoë Blade BiogAs a teenager, Zoë Blade sampled household objects into Impulse Tracker, twisting them into rhythmic alien soundscapes.  Not quite music, but not quite not, the result was a bizarre example of outsider art.She's since honed her aesthetic into something more polished but no less unique, fusing catchy melodies and rhythms with the untamed sound of her sprawling modular synthezisers.She's currently making music for popular YouTube series ContraPoints, as well as her patrons at patreon.com/zoeblademusic and is also involved with Nina in the Transistor Sounds Labs company.https://www.zoeblade.com/Nina Richards BiogNina Richards is the kind of musician who always likes to dive a level deeper.  Always looking to improve the tools available, she designed and built Stepper Acid, a modular sequencer loosely based on the TB-303, but geared more towards live performance.This was well received by other musicians too, and has been used by the likes of Nine Inch Nails's Trent Reznor and Underworld's Rick Smith.The product is marketed through her Transistor Sounds Labs company.In addition to her solo work, Nina is also known for writing music for actress Abigail Thorn's YouTube channel Philosophy Tube.https://www.ninarichards.co.uk/Stepper AcidStepper Acid is a 16-step Eurorack sequencer module designed with live performance in mind, designed and built as a collaboration between Nina Richards and Zoë Blade.https://www.transistorsoundslabs.comCaro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.URL: http://carocsound.com/Twitter: @carocsoundInst: @carocsoundFB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

J. Willgoose Esquire, founding member of alternative band Public Service Broadcasting, talks to Caro C about the origins of the band and the surprise success they've enjoyed. He details his recording methods, choice of equipment and the technical challenges of performing live.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:35 - How Public Service Broadcasting Began03:48 - Sharing Voices From The Past05:19 - Musical Equipment Used06:50 - Inspired By Analogue Instruments08:39 - Composition Methods10:12 - Deckard's Dream Synth11:56 - Mixing 200 Tracks12:56 - Using Featured Vocalists16:54 - Additional Audio Elements20:41 - Editing The Samples22:16 - Intellectual Property25:39 - Performing Live31:00 - Accompanying Visuals33:22 - Tech Support In The SOS ForumPublic Service Broadcasting BiogPublic Service Broadcasting is an award-winning London-based group founded by J. Willgoose, Esq. The band are known for using archival samples from the British Film Institute to create concept albums around the Battle Of Britain, Everest and the British coal industry. Their second album, The Race for Space, was supported by two shows at the National Space Centre in Leicester and the album charted at number 11 in the UK, reaching Number 1 in the UK Independent Charts. Their third release, Every Valley (with James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers) reached number 4 on the UK charts. Their recently released fourth album, Bright Magic, was recorded at the Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin.PSB perform live using a wide range of both electric and electronic instruments and samples. They have toured internationally, appeared at the BBC Music "Big Weekend" and in a late-night Prom in 2019 joined by London Contemporary Voices and the Multi-Story Orchestra, televised by the BBC the following evening.https://www.publicservicebroadcasting.net/Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.URL: http://carocsound.com/Twitter: @carocsoundInst: @carocsoundFB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

Synth Gems 1 is the first Bjooks publication to be authored by their Editor-in-Chief, Dr Mike Metlay, and sets out to document, both visually and in words, some of the most incredible keyboard synthesizers ever made. Using strict selection criteria, Mike, Kim Bjørn and the team have curated a collection of instruments that are pioneering and rare, influential and impactful and, above all, gorgeous to look at. In this podcast, I wanted to dig into that selection process, find out what it took to document these instruments and ask how this book came into existence, so I began by asking Mike where the inspiration for this book came from...Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:00 - What was the inspiration for this book?03:12 - What was the process of whittling your list down?07:24 - Why no modular synths?09:59 - Were there any synths that you wanted but couldn’t find decent examples of?12:24 - How did you check and verify your accuracy?20:06 - How did you come up with the essay format?22:56 - What challenges did you face when photographing the synths featured?28:40 - What prompted the inclusion of an introduction to synthesizers?37:24 - Which is the one instrument in this book you HAD to have in there?43:36 - Did you ever consider including audio examples?45:17 - Can you offer any insights into what may appear in Synth Gems 2?Mike Metlay Biog After attaining a Ph.D in Nuclear Structure Physics, and eschewing a career in that most technical of scientific fields, Dr Mike Metlay worked for ‘Recording, The Magazine for the Recording Musician’, for over 20 years, the last five of which were as Editor. It allowed him to indulge in his passion for electronic music, and the making of it, through many mediums such as writing, creating and performing. This eventually led him to become Editor-in-Chief at Bjooks, a highly-respected publishing house specialising in luxurious and detailed tomes on the subjects of synthesizers and music technology. https://bjooks.comhttps://bjooks.com/products/synth-gems-1-exploring-vintage-synthesizershttps://www.mrspiral.com Rob Puricelli Biog Rob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMIs so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology. www.failedmuso.comhttps://www.youtube.com/c/prosynthnetworkTwitter: @failedmusoInstagram: @failedmusoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

In this podcast Rob Puricelli talks to Ian Boddy, who has been a fixture on the electronic music scene for over 40 years, as an artist, a sound designer and a label owner. His label, DiN, celebrates its 100th release this month with one of Ian’s own creations, ‘Nevermore’. Rob finds out more about this niche label, why and how it started and how it still remains a relevant and popular imprint to this day. Chapters00:00 - Introduction00:36 - Where did it all begin? 05:58 - How did you get into sound design? 09:53 - How did the idea of the DiN label come about? 13:05 - What makes it on to the label?14:43 - What was behind the Tone Science series of releases?18:07 - How have services like Bandcamp empowered labels?22:39 - The 100th DiN release, Nevermore26:13 - What was the inspiration behind Nevermore and what was used to create it?28:17 - What’s your story with the Analogue Systems French Connection?31:44 - What are your thoughts on expressive synthesizers?32:55 - Are there any more live performance recordings coming soon?34:39 - What’s your personal favourite DiN release of the 100 so far?35:56 - What are the plans for the next 100 DiN releases?37:15 - What’s coming up in terms of live performances in the future? 38:58 - What instruments are inspiring you right now? Ian Boddy BiogComposer, sound designer, DiN ambient music label owner & analogue synth aficionado.Ian Boddy first got into composing music in the late 70’s in Newcastle upon Tyne, England whilst studying for a degree in Biochemistry. Having fallen in love with the sound-worlds of German electronic bands such as Tangerine Dream, he came across an arts centre that housed a studio filled with reel-to-reel tape machines and analogue synthesisers. Boddy taught himself how to use this equipment through a process of experimentation, thus began a long and successful music career.Specialising in ambient and electronic music, Boddy has three main strands to his musical activities which are run under the umbrella of his own company, Something Else Music Limited.Sound Design:Worked with Zero-G since 1992 to release a series of critically acclaimed sample libraries such as Ambient Volumes 1 & 2, Malice in Wonderland, Ambiosis & Dreamzone.Released 3 Kontakt virtual instruments Morphology, Analogue Sequencer Loops & Outer Limits. In 2008 set up his own brand of downloadable sound libraries under the Ian Boddy Waveforms banner with 4 releases to date. Also done extensive sound design/synth programming work for Native Instruments, Camel Audio, Soniccouture, Sample Magic & LinPlug.Library Music:Worked with DeWolfe Music since 1997 releasing over 20 albums with titles such as Waterworlds, Drones, Living Planet, The Unexplained & The Weather. In total this represents over 500 pieces which have been used extensively in TV, radio, film & documentaries in the UK, Europe, Japan & North America.DiN:Although Boddy has been releasing music since 1980 his main focus since 1999 has been the DiN ambient electronica label. With the release of “Nevermore” the label has released 100 albums with artists such as Chris Carter, Robert Rich, Tetsu Inoue, Markus Reuter, Erik Wøllo, Scanner & ARC. Boddy has performed concerts in the UK, The Netherlands, Germany & USA.https://ianboddy.comhttps://din.org.ukhttps://dinrecords.bandcamp.comhttps://din.org.uk/album/nevermore-din69Audio clips used in this podcast are taken from the album, ‘Nevermore’, performed by Ian Boddy. Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology. www.failedmuso.comTwitter: @failedmusoInstagram: @failedmusoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

Sam Battle, also known as Look Mum No Computer, chats to Caro C about his love of electronics, '80s music and re-using discarded technology in new ways to create a unique musical identity.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:30 - Developing A Unique Sound07:35 - Early Projects08:29 - Analogue Noise12:29 - Modular Synthesis13:59 - Kosmo Modules15:44 - This Museum Is Not Obsolete17:53 - Interactive Installations20:57 - The 1000 Oscillator Megadrone22:52 - The Crystal Palace Electro Magnetic Sonic Sequencer26:53 - Other Electronic Projects27:49 - Musical Projects29:26 - The Recording Process32:21 - Working With PatreonSam Battle BiogFrom his early interest in electronics and '80s synth-pop to setting up a museum showcasing obsolete electronic and music technology, Sam Battle, who goes under the moniker Look Mum No Computer, is carving out a unique niche for himself.Known as both an Inventor and Musician and with a strong Patreon following and almost half a million YouTube subscribers, Sam makes a feature of reworking old technology to create new and interesting sounds. He has repurposed discarded Teletubbies, Furbies and Speak & Spell's to create various interactive projects, which are used in his musical compositions and are also featured at his museum in Ramsgate, Kent, England. https://www.lookmumnocomputer.com/https://www.patreon.com/lookmumnocomputerhttps://this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com/Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.URL: http://carocsound.com/Twitter: @carocsoundInst: @carocsoundFB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

For decades, synth manufacturers and sound designers have strived to recreate the sounds of acoustic instruments, such as brass, woodwind and strings. Digital sampling was launched in 1979 but was unable to express the subtleties and nuances of acoustic instruments, until Physical Modelling came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s. David Bessell talks to Rob Puricelli about how he was inspired by this and sought to explore it further using modular synths and software. Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:22 - Where did your career start?03:24 - What sparked your interest in physical modelling?05:08 - How do you begin to create a physical model?07:51 - What do you use to create your physical models?11:17 - When using modular to create models, what modules would one require?13:55 - Are you using modelling to recreate or create anew?21:14 - What other methods of modelling exist?23:23 - Why do you think physical modelling didn’t catch on?29:11 - What’s the future for physical modelling?32:47 - What methods do you use to perform with your physical models?36:40 - How can someone begin to get into physical modelling today? https://sites.google.com/site/davebessellmusic/https://soundcloud.com/dave-bessellhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg9nVhVYQ2bp9h6BE5MWpTQhttps://din7d.bandcamp.com/album/tone-science-no-2-elements-and-particleshttps://din.org.uk/album/node-live-din55 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karplus-Strong_string_synthesishttp://www.ron-berry.co.uk/page6.htmlDavid Bessell BiogBefore studying at the Royal College of Music, where he covered orchestration and composition, the latter of which he carried on at the Guildhall, David Bessell first made a name for himself as a session musician, arranger and programmer for bands such as Killing Joke and Suede. As a solo artist and as one quarter of analogue synthesizer quartet Node (alongside Flood, Ed Buller and Mel Wesson, who took over from Gary Stout), he has made a name for himself as a highly experimental musician with a particular interest in physical modelling, exploring the creation of tones that sound and behave like natural acoustic instruments, or in some cases, sound like nothing physically possible in the real world. Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners. He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows. He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.www.failedmuso.comTwitter: @failedmusoInstagram: @failedmusoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

Marshall Jefferson talks about his early years in the Chicago house music scene, his seminal 'Move Your Body’ track, the classic equipment he's worked with and how modern music technology allows anyone to create with ease.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:10 - The Early Years 05:42 - Rock Music Influence 08:52 - Ron Hardy, Trax Records & DJ Pierre10:29 - Replacing Stolen Equipment11:44 - Logic and Roland Cloud13:19 - The Ten City Album13:47 - Incorporating Binaural 15:36 - Composing Alone18:03 - Working On Headphones22:47 - Sonic Improvements24:39 - Market Saturation27:09 - Females In Electronic Music29:25 - Future ProjectsMarshall Jefferson BiogMarshall Jefferson has been a key player in the house music genre. Starting out in the Chicago house scene, his early tracks like ‘Open Our Eyes’ and ‘7 Ways to Jack’ were put out on the TRAX Records label and made an impact on the scene, but it was his use of piano in ‘Move Your Body’ that bought wider attention to his work.Since those early years, Marshall has helped to develop the acid house movement with his work on ‘Acid Trax’ with DJ Pierre in 1987. He also turned his hand to deep house, most notably on ‘Open Our Eyes’, released in 1988 on Big Beat. He headlined the first House Music Tour of Europe in 1987 and in the 90s did a five-year residency with the Tribal Gathering and Big Love Events in London, during which time he released his 1997 studio album Day Of The Onion.In 2021, Marshall teamed up with Byron Stingily to release a new album 'Judgement' under the Ten City band name, their first collaboration in 25 years.https://www.beatport.com/artist/ten-city/39865Caro C BiogCaro C is an artist, engineer and teacher specialising in electronic music. Her self-produced fourth album "Electric Mountain" is out now. Described as a "one-woman electronic avalanche" (BBC), Caro started making music thanks to being laid up whilst living in a double decker bus and listening to the likes of Warp Records in the late 1990's. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) has now played in most of the cultural hotspots of her current hometown of Manchester, UK. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of electronic music charity Delia Derbyshire Day.URL: http://carocsound.com/Twitter: @carocsoundInst: @carocsoundFB: https://www.facebook.com/carocsound/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts

Michelle Moog Koussa is the Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation, an organisation set up in her father’s memory to carry out educational work in the community and curate and display his extensive archive, and the many instruments he developed in his long career.In recent years, the BMF has increasingly touched the lives and minds of young people interested in electronic sounds, as well as preserving her father’s legacy for current and future generations to enjoy and draw inspiration from via the Moogseum located in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.Chapters00:00 - Introduction01:05 - Why Start The Foundation?04:30 - The Three Parts Of The Foundation07:20 - Unusual Items In The Archive09:16 - What did you learn about your father from the archive?10:11 - Who inspired Bob Moog?14:05 - The Moogseum23:01 - What Synth’s Are Available?24:12 - The Electronic Voyager documentary28:17 - Did making the movie reveal anything new about your father?30:15 - The impact of the Minimoog33:21 - When can we see The Electronic Voyager Film?34:12 - How important is the work of the BMF and other similar organisations?https://moogfoundation.org/https://moogseum.org/https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/electronic-voyagerMoog musical clips provided by:Danniielle O’Connor (Moog Voyager) - http://pulseeternal.com/ Ernesto Romeo (Minimoog Model D) - https://klaussband.bandcamp.com/ Moot Booxlé (Memorymoog & Minimoog) - http://mootbooxle.bandcamp.com/ Suzanne Aston (Moog Voyager XL) - http://synthsbythesea.com/wp/ Brian Oliva (Theremin) - https://www.getsemanimusic.com/ Michelle Moog Koussa BiogMichelle Moog-Koussa, Bob Moog’s third daughter, was born in 1968, just as Wendy Carlos released her groundbreaking album Switched-On Bach, which brought the Moog synthesizer to the fore of the public consciousness. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation, a position she has held for the past 16 years. She has grown the Foundation from a grass roots, volunteer-based organization to one that has nationally recognized goals and accomplishments, a staff of seven, and a worldwide network of supporters. She has been the driving force behind the Foundation’s vision to carry Bob Moog’s pioneering legacy forward by igniting creativity at the intersection of music, science, history, and innovation.At the forefront of this vision is the Foundation’s hallmark educational project, Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool. Michelle stewarded this project from an occasional volunteer outreach effort to a standardized 10-week curriculum that teaches the science of sound through the magic of music to second grade children in nearly 100 classrooms in Asheville, North Carolina. While Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool currently serves 3,000 children a year, Michelle is leading the Foundation to expand this project nationwide.Michelle also oversees the preservation of the Bob Moog Foundation Archives, a vast array of historic materials ranging from photos to schematics, from correspondence to prototypes. The Bob Moog Foundation shares the materials with other research institutions and museums, and opened its Moogseum in May 2019, and interactive facility where the Foundation’s educational and historic preservation initiatives converge.Michelle has written the foreword for The Synthesizer Book, by acclaimed writer and historian, Mark Vail, and has been featured on numerous video and podcasts. Michelle gave a talk at TEDx Asheville in 2017 entitled, Inspired: The Journey of Discovering my Famous Father, which can be viewed here.Rob Puricelli BiogRob Puricelli is a Music Technologist and Instructional Designer who has a healthy obsession with classic synthesizers and their history. In conjunction with former Fairlight Studio Manager, Peter Wielk, he fixes and restores Fairlight CMI’s so that they can enjoy prolonged and productive lives with new owners.He also writes reviews and articles for his website, failedmuso.com, and other music-related publications, as well as hosting a weekly livestream on YouTube for the Pro Synth Network and guesting on numerous music technology podcasts and shows.He also works alongside a number of manufacturers, demonstrating their products and lecturing at various educational and vocational establishments about music technology.www.failedmuso.comTwitter: @failedmusoInstagram: @failedmusoFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/failedmuso/Catch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts