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Calling all heads, open minded enthusiasts, synth wizards, amateur Bell Laboratories historians, and those in search of honest artwork in the age of the algorithm! Electronic music pioneer Don Slepian, who Numero Group has dubbed as “one of new age’s most respected and technologically-advanced synthesists,” will be coming to the Philosophical Research Society for his first time ever performing in Los Angeles !!!! Whether you know Don for his landmark 1980 album Sea of Bliss, his sought after tapes like Open Spaces and New Dawn, his appearance on Light In The Attic’s I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age Music In America, 1950-1990, or even his performances on the deep cut and absolutely unhinged Horses Sing None of It series, we’re honored and inspired to set the stage for a new kind of performance from the one and only sorcerer of the synthesizer. Don will be joining us to perform original music on his own unique self-constructed synthesizer. Called the Footnote, this evening will be a premier performance for this new MIDI controller. Originally promised to influential composer Wendy Carlos in 1988, when Slepian and Carlos were both with Audion Recording Co (alongside Laraaji & Emerald Web), the Footnote creates new possibilities for a solo musician to perform complex contrapuntal music. Don has also invited his friend and celebrated violinist Karen Bentley Pollick to join him in collaboration for the evening with time for Q&A following his performance! Los Angeles-based composer Nina Keith will open the evening in stunning ensemble with Qur’an Shaheed and Massima Bell. Before, between, and following, we’ll also be treated to a first listen of Red Hot’s watershed TRAИƧA compilation, featuring new music from Sade, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Green-House, Ana Roxanne, claire rousay, Rachika Nayar, and many more friends and luminaries.