Calling all heads, open minded enthusiasts, synth wizards, amateur Bell Laboratories historians, and those in search of honest artwork in the age of the algorithm! In partnership with many friends, we present to you the Los Angeles debut of Don Slepian, who Numero Group has dubbed “one of new age’s most respected and technologically-advanced synthesists.”

Whether you know Don for his landmark 1980 album Sea of Bliss, his sought after tapes like Open Spaces and New Dawn, his appearance on Light In The Attic’s I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990, or even his performances on the deep cut and absolutely unhinged Horses Sing None of It series, we’re honored and inspired to set the stage for a new kind of performance from the one and only sorcerer of the synthesizer.

For a career first, Don Slepian will be joining us at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles to perform original music on his unique self-constructed synthesizer.  Don will be showing his foot controller, called the Footnote, as a premier performance of this new MIDI controller.  Originally promised to influential composer Wendy Carlos back in 1988 when Slepian and Carlos were both releasing music on the Audion record label, this instrument creates new possibilities for a solo musician to perform complex contrapuntal music. Don has also invited his friend and celebrated violinist Karen Bentley Pollick to join him in collaboration for the evening. There will be a discussion and time for Q&A following his performance!

Los Angeles-based composer Nina Keith will open the evening in stunning ensemble with Qur’an Shaheed and Massima Bell. Before, between, and following, we’ll also have be treated to a first listen of Red Hot’s watershed TRAИƧA compilation, featuring new music from Sade, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Green-House, Ana Roxanne, claire rousay, Rachika Nayar, and many more friends and luminaries.

Our dear friends of Mobius Acoustics are bringing in their custom built speakers to bring that HiFi love to the evening and we’ll also have a limited number of risograph posters available for purchase, lovingly produced by our friends at Tomorrow.Today in Chinatown.