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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I’m in Fishtown too.

There was a really cool outdoor quadraphonic show at the Mass Building Garden last weekend. Wish I had thought to post about it here beforehand!

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