Artist Spotlight: Steven Barsky

Steven Barsky Music is life. I feel inspired to record the sonic patterns and sounds that are running around in my head. Sometimes they come fast and furious, I don’t think I’ll get the Logic up and recording before the ephemeral soundscape spewing from the speakers is gone. It happens so fast sometimes… Here are some examples of those dreams that got captured. Some meander, some bleep and bloop, some have something resembling an actual song structure. Some are part of my Tribute series of songs that pay homage to and remind you of the original song. Rain Dancing is an example of that. It is highly evocative of the end of the song Rain Dances on the Camel album of the same name. Listened to it as a teen, then it bounced around my head for several decades. Voila! Tribute! Give both a listen and you’ll see what I mean. Some of these songs pay homage to classic Buchla Styles. At least in my view. There’s a bit of Pop style here too, enjoy that. I love my Buchla gear. It takes me to a whole different place than my other synths do. Buchla is deep. I bought my Music Easel about 5 years ago and it’s only recently that I feel I understand a good part of it. The same with my 248r v2 MARF running v2.5 firmware ;-) At first I used it just like a sequencer for notes and gates, but with the special ability to change inter-step timing. Over the past year and a half the MARF has taught that it is oh so much more. Arbitrary Function, indeed! Thanks for the listen, Steven Tracks 1. Einstein Walks his Cat 2. Ropes Course 3. That Feeling’s Gone 4. Sticks 5. Reverse Guitar Thingy 6. Sparky’s Charge 7. Inner Space 8. Supercharged Roadtrip to the North 9. Funhouse 10. Gunfight at Noon 11. We are Siamese if you don’t please 12. Everybody, Now We Got It 13. So Falls Niagara Falls 14. Diamonds at Dusk 15. Slowly Now 16. FerryRide 17. Rain Dancing 18. DigiDooDoo 19. Afternoon on the Nestucca 20. Swing your MARF