Robert Edgar : SynLife
rbedgar@stanford.edu
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For performance inquiries email rbedgar@stanford.edu
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Memory Theatre Two 2003 (CD) -2007 (Web-Based Program)
"Slower than most films, but much faster than a painting."
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Additional programming by Lucy Xu and Irv Kalb. |
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Music Project: 14 Bindlestick Frank Performance, Recordings Robert Edgar, Tom Goering, Roger Winkelman, Robin Edgar
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Music Project: ragaphonia (2006) CD release: Floating Glacier Music
Robert Edgar with Purna Prasad (mridangam, electronic percussion), Shuba Gunapu (vocal, veena), and Roger Winkelman (bass). |
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Electro-Acoustic Music 2006: The Duchamp Examinations Upcoming performance: Robert performs The Duchamp Examinations at Y2K6: International Live Looping Festival, Sunday October 22, Santa Cruz, 1:00 PST, Stage 2. Robert's new electro-acoustic music CD is available at www.electro-music.com. Multiple number one placements in Indie-Music.com's "Experimental" genre for the track "Kelzmer Surfers":
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Photo: Hong Waltzer
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Live perforances of "The Duchamp Examination" and "Duchamp Prelude": - June 2, 2006 electro-music 2006(TM) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Feb 9 2006 Outsound/Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series, San Francisco CA - Feb 6 Red Rock Cafe, Mountain View CA - Jan 1 2006 Electro-Music.com live webcast To right: Video of R Edgar performing a "Duchamp Examination" R.Edgar: Roland GR-33 Midi Guitar, Boomerang, Metasonix TM-2, Vocal, SONAR, VSampler3 R. Winkelman: Bass |
17:30 December 19, 2005 |
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CD release: Cocoa Beach Songs (1982 - 2006)
Photo of The Mass Deception playing at Canaveral Pier, 1968 |
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Click the album for "Cocoa Beach Songs" Click here to open this CD in iTunes Click the Indie-Music icon or Garageband's "Track of the Day" award for "Blue Tip Match" Other Garageband.Com Awards: Track of the Day" award for "Sally"
in Experimental Rock, 27 June 2006
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(Band in Progress: Runs With Scissors) (2005)
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CD release: (The Mister Edgars) (2004)
Early analog synthesizers had a module called a sample and hold. This was a circuit that sampled the level of the voltage from a control unit and "held" it for application to a pitch or amplitude of a signal. This song, then, is about painting.
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| Thirteen Transitions Before Dusk (2003) |  |
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Pacific Rim 4:44 |
| Live Loops (2001) |  |
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BeatLoop (Live Performance) 15:30 |
| Bob Edgar Rocks and Folks (2000 - 2001) |  |
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Weakness 5:50 |
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Click the Indie-Music icon for Garageband's "Track of the Day" award for "Sally" 27 June 2006 Best Lyrics week of 26 June 2006, Best Programming in Experiemental Rock, week of June 2006
12.5 Minutes (1998)
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Mike 2:50 |
| Persuasion (1983) |  |
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Perhaps 1:01 |
| Electronic Music (1976) |  |
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