Why oh why on a Tuesday night. I was aware of the events at BridgeSet Sound, but have never gone. I may try to make it to this for the first hour (depending on how draining the work day is).

There are occasional MOTS events in Philly. I’ve only been to one (about two years ago in Clark Park). It was small, but fun.

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Synth night is a cool place to hang out with fellow gear nerds and try stuff out, kinda like an internet forum come to life. Sometimes there are explicit performances/demos but mostly it’s an open jam format.

There’s definitely a lot of electronic music going on around town, even if it’s not explicitly synth-based. All the Musica Practica events I’ve been to that @YEVGENIY has posted throughout the thread are always super solid, definitely follow them on facebook/sign up for their email list. Chuck Van Zyl has the ambient/Kosmische contingent locked down as @Struggle has mentioned. I just played the last Gatherings concert of the season this past weekend and it was great to hear these types of soundscapes in such a reverberant and beautiful place (St. Mary’s church). Forgot to post about it here, I’m bad with promotion :sweat_smile:

Bowerbird is another organization to follow; they generally put on concerts focused around 20th century avant-garde compositions, but not exclusively. Some of these are electronic and some are not. & there’s a whole noise/deconstructed dance music thing happening in warehouse / diy spaces all over the city which I have only brushed up against here and there… LXV, Ulla Straus + Pontiac Streator are the artists I know to follow to learn more about these spaces.

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@kbit, wish I could have been there last weekend. Took my son to anime convention in NYC.

Saw some pictures of you guys at sound check and hope to hear some recordings!

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ah geez I need to get out more

I’ll be headed to this synth meet tomorrow night. Anyone else planning on it?

Thursday @ Lightbox Film Center right here in Philadelphia!

Morton Subotnick & Joan La Barbara in conversation with Maria Murphy & Ted Gordon following a screening of Hungers, their 1988 collabo with Ed Emshwiller that draws from documentation of their 1987 stage production with Emshwiller of the same name.

https://vimeo.com/7296606

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Here’s a cool oral history about ambient/electronic music in the Philly area. Thought some might find it interesting…

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There’s going to be another synthesizer meetup (or synthesizer jawn? I still don’t quite know how to use that word) on Saturday, Feb. 1:

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The last one I went to at this store was really fun and there were lots of cool synths. I’ll be there for sure. Thanks for sharing!!

Smapti your are doing great A+ use of jawn! The synth meet will be fun! I will be bringing a bunch of toys!

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Anyone else planning to go tomorrow? Think I might bring my Lyra-8.

Caterina Barbieri is playing at Johnny Brenda’s on Wednesday the 18th

Also another Gatherings coming up on Saturday the 21st
http://www.thegatherings.org/132gather.html

I’m going to try to make it to both!

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Excellent news! Philly is a great city to see live shows of all genres… other than electronic music, usually. We just don’t get much here. Johnny Brenda’s is a good venue for this too!

Also of note, although outside of the modular world: Alix Perez and Om Unit will be here in April. I know nothing about that venue, though.

Damn, happy to see Caterina Barbieri! I had to miss her in Chicago recently…

And the day before, Fennesz is playing!

It’s a free show. Anyone know if free Bowerbird shows tend to be super crowded? I would love love love to Fennesz but I also don’t think I’ll be able to get over there early to wait in line or anything.

(It’s at the Rotunda, which might be huge? I don’t know.)

EDIT: sorry I messed up the link. This is what I get for shopping for a bday gift for my wife & posting on Lines at the same time :woman_facepalming:

@robbbiecloset depends on the show, the free shows can definitely get crowded. I’ve been turned away due to capacity at one before, but that’s not the norm. Dunno if a Fennesz show would be subject to that kind of popularity, especially given the mass amounts of cancellations in the past few days (including Caterina’s show).

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A friend just shared this with me, but I’m guessing you need a Facebook account to check it out?

Philly Virtual MOTS

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Nope! We’ll be on Instagram! Follow @modularonthespotphilly and we go live at 2pm

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@geh2oman, caught some of your set. Sounded great!

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Thanks a bunch for tuning in! I’ll try to make us more proactive about giving notice for our streams! :blush:

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Hey what’s up man,

Im was searching google for philly based synth stuff and I stumbled upon this post and forum.
I feel like I’ve stumbled upon a gem with this forum and the quality of peoples post.
Anyways I wanted to reach out because Im also in Olde Kensington/Fishtown.
Im a student at CCP studying sound recording and tech, and I am an aspiring artist/producer future gear collector and synth nerd. Just wanted to say what’s up and see if your still in the neighborhood over here.

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