Saturday, June 1 @ 9pm
with Patricia Wake, The Molecule Party, and DJ Samurai
Inn Termission Lounge
1908 East Carson St, Pittsburgh, PA
Tickets: $5
More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/163514037151226/
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I, Synthesist is New York City composer/producer Chris Ianuzzi, who became fascinated by electronic music after a Moog synthesizer at a music store triggered an earlier childhood hallucination experienced during a dental procedure. Ianuzzi has many genre-crossing projects under his belt: playing a piano with a chisel and rubber wedge and processing the sound through ARP 2600 for the American Society for University Composers, work with Vangelis and ex-Tangerine Dream member Peter Baumann, work on AEIOU by Freeze and Way of Life by The Puppets, two albums with the band Sluka, electronic sound design and scoring with Suzanne Ciani, and many film and commerical themes.
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Electro-pop artist I, Synthesist is set to release his third album, Somewhere and Everywhere, on May 4. The album weaves together the analog past and the digital present, emotional vulnerability and cold machine, for a multi-layered sound that is futuristic yet accessible. Written after the birth of his daughter,Somewhere and Everywhere explores themes of birth, death, and transience, using technology to express our common humanity. Somewhere and Everywhere is his third release as I, Synthesist. His album Avalanche received a High Five in the German Alternative Charts and reached the top 10 in the French Alternative Charts. Though cerebral and thought-provoking, Somewhere and Everywhere‘s steady pulse makes it suitable for the club as well. “Silver Moon Disguise” is a danceable track about nighttime escapes. “Wake Up Dreaming, with guest vocals by Jessie Rendon, will also get you moving. “Rockets” is a sci-fi piece full of unexpected turns, melding both pretty synths and dissonance with a strong beat. “Still Silence” asks “What’s your revolution?” “Twilight Rain” is a catchy track about “space to put your pain.” “Carried Away” is the closest I, Synthesist has ever come to a love song. The instrumental “Will” was included in the soundtrack for the documentary Small Small Thing. “A Place in the Sky” explains to a child where we go when we die. The finale “Womb a Tron,” which breaks from the sound of the rest of the album, is a recreation of the atmosphere of the womb created to lull his newborn daughter to sleep.
“vulnerability that contrasts starkly with the cold electronics” – Grave Concerns
“polished, celebral singer/songwriter synthpop” – Voltage
“I, Synthesist can be counted among the righteous, the torchbearers of artistically ambitious synthpop of this age.” – Release Magazine