You are invited to take part in a truly unique experience: The Surreal Sirkus Telepathon! Both online and in person with Surreal Sirkus and a host of Asheville's finest creative freaks. The event will raise money for Arts 2 People, to help us put on the 15th Surreal Sirkus Arts Festival on Oct. 25.

We're coming up on our final chapter in the Tale of the Cosmic Eggs: The Indigo Egg. Please join Surreal Sirkus in our underwater ball on 9/20 at Third Room, put on your wildest underwater costumes, and help make it a splash!

Moog One Firmware update v1.8.0 is now available for download! Many of you have asked for tighter MIDI behavior and consistent performance. This release concentrates on that foundation so your creative flow stays uninterrupted. Download from here: www.moogmusic.com/downloads/?p...

MidiWrist Unleashed is part of this year's MIDI Innovation Awards, please consider voting for it in the Commercial Software category! The link for voting is here: bit.ly/midi2025

This Sunday 7/27 at noon, Asheville Vaudeville does a special brunch spectacular at The Grey Eagle and I'll be playing live music for April Lynn's mesmerizing dancing and hooping! 💃🎶

Animoog Galaxy gets a featured story in the Apple App Store!

We've released v2.3.0 of bld, our pure #Java build system, with support for the new Central Publish Portal. Migration to the new publication service is as easy as changing the target repositories.

We're also hiring a Quality Assurance Software Tester to join my team in Asheville, NC. If you're passionate about making and keeping our software as stable as possible, please take a look at the details in the link below. inmusicbrands.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...

We have an exciting job opening available at Moog to join my team in Asheville, NC: Application Software Engineer - Synth Editors. You'll find a link with all details below, we're all looking forward to making great and inspiring synths with you! inmusicbrands.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...

The Surreal Sirkus Red Egg weekend is jam packed with great music, fire performances, psytrance, theatre, and so much more. Here's the full schedule, hope to see you there!

Ramping up rehearsals for my show on June 20th at the Fallout ArtSpace in Alexander, NC by practicing the whole set at least one per day with the exact technical setup I plan to use on stage.

Friday June 20th, I will be opening The Red Egg Surreal Sirkus weekend with a solo set of originals played on acoustic guitar and vocals. I'm going back to my roots and the style of my first album. For this show, I will debut a collection of new songs that have never been performed before.

In the last six months, I've going back to my musical roots, working on a lot of new material and reviving a few old songs from my first solo album. Soon I'll be stepping back on stage with my first solo singer-songwriter live performance in over a decade, with hopefully more to follow! 😊😎🎤

@torley.com writes a great article about how far #MPE has come! torley.substack.com/p/liking-wha...

Friday night 6/20, will be the first performance of Fire Path, a new duo April Shamel and I started where we perform flowing choreographies on original music. For the Red Egg show, April will be dancing and fire hooping on a newly written instrumental that I will play live on the Harpejji.

We had a great Sound Effects event with the Asheville Music School. Student bands played from 12-6pm and a lot of people came through to support them and enjoy their music. Many ocarinas were enjoyed by all.

Since tomorrow is not only Asheville Music School Sound Effects with all our student bands at One World West in Asheville NC, but also Sunday Funday. We'll have two big boxes of 3D printed ocarinas we'll be giving away to anybody who wants to make some music! See you tomorrow between 12-6pm!

The Asheville Music School Sound Effects Benefit Concert 2025 is tomorrow! For our 11th annual concert we are going back to our roots, and having all of our student bands perform! Join us for this Sunday funday event at One World Brewing West on May 18, 12-6pm.

The Minimoog Model D Synthesizer is Apple's App of the Day in the Japan App Store! Story and link in comments.

Sunday May 18th 12pm, the Asheville Music School's primary fundraising event Sound Effects takes place at One World West.

The Asheville Music School Sound Lab grand opening is tomorrow, Thursday May 8 from 5:30-7:30pm! Open to the public. Come see our new studio in action, as Josh Blake records our student band Dr. Funky Squirrel.

A rare glimpse of how Gaudrians materialize on planet earth. Come meet them tomorrow 5/4 at 3:21pm in Pritchard Park Downtown Asheville!

10 years ago I joined Moog Music to help build our software team and software product line. Not only has this been the most fulfilling career I could ever have imagined, it also set off a chain of events that got me to move to Asheville and finally find the community where I feel I belong.

15 years ago I wrote this classical piece, recorded and performed it live solely on the Eigenharp Pico. Together with a few other key moments from that time, it set the stage for the rest of my life trajectory. This piece still holds an important place in my heart. youtu.be/g-PofqMhzAo

Asheville Music School opens the AMS Sound Lab! Please join us for the grand opening on May 8th with a live recording of our student band Dr. Funky Squirrel by Josh Blake.

Neunhundertneunundneunzig Luftballons! 😁

Fiber optic whip makes for some cool accent lighting!

I've just released PIT Mutation Testing Extension for bld version 1.0.10 #bld #buildsystem #buildtool #github #java github.com/rife2/bld-pi...

How fortunate we are to have the capacity to make music for ourselves to self-regulate and find our way back to our own center. Very grateful for that right now!

Some good news, FEMA came through and provided me with some financial assistance.

For those looking for updates on the fires around Asheville and WNC, the Citizen Times interactive map seems quite good. data.citizen-times.com/fires/

Blast from the past, before I joined Moog Music, I was trying to play the Eigenharp and the Slim Phatty as expressively as I could. This original song used a single sound on the Moog Slim Phatty for all the sections of the song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRXp...

We're ready for a very special Frequinox: Asheville Fringe & Surreal Sirkus show tonight at Third Room!

Yup, I've joined the Sirkus, surreal! This Saturday will be my first ever performance of an act I created inspired by Shaolin Kung Fu, the Indian martial art Kalaripayattu, sci-fi lightsaber fights and some of my own moves to tie it all together. All choreographed on my own music. See you there!

All ready to go for an Asheville Fringe Arts Festival week of extravagance!

I haven't been able to practice guitar for a little while since I broke one of my picking nails. This is the first day it's somewhat useable and I felt like recording and sharing my late night rehearsal of one of the songs I'm finishing that I started many years ago. youtu.be/L8U_I5Ie8XM

Lovely Saturday morning with Luna and Tigger. It was a busy week, so we're making the most out of some free time.

I recently joined Surreal Sirkus. On Saturday 3/22 we'll be doing an awesome show and dance party at Third Room in collaboration with Fringe Arts Festival, and I'll be doing a music martial arts performance with lightsabers also. Hope to see you there!

Lunchtime training for Frequinox: Asheville Fringe & Surreal Sirkus!

Our Spatial Audio update for Animoog Galaxy made it to the front page of the visionOS App Store and the What's New section! 🥳🍾 www.moogmusic.com/products/ani...

Time for some Frequinox: Asheville Fringe & Surreal Sirkus practice!

Holy smokes, ChatGPT for writing song lyrics ... I love this. I used to use a bunch of rhyming dictionaries, fuzzy word searches, and even custom search logic. Now I can clearly explain what I'm going for and keep refining with natural language until I find all the pieces that need to fit.

Paul Penny with his incredible tree photograph that I just got at the Resurrection Studios Collective. So much serendipity around this piece with me diving back into music, my 1st album being called Dream Like a Tree and one of the songs that I'm building a choreography to, talks about tree dreams.

Moog's own "multisensory" synthesizer now has full Spatial Audio support so that the sound-producing comets you see in immersive mode can synthesize sound live in space. This one's exclusive to Apple Vision Pro and visionOS, but it could be a sign of things to come.

Today we released a major update for Animoog Galaxy! This version introduces the world's first real-time Spatial Audio synthesizer for the Apple Vision Pro.

Well hi there GECO MIDI on Linux! 😁🤟

For several decades I've been wanting to learn the Chen Tai Chi long form as way to cultivate my internal qi anywhere, anytime. It took me about 6 years of practice at the Tao Institute to hook into internal martial arts after a lifetime of external ones.

Uwe G. Hoenig's performance with GECO is still one of my favorites ones! youtu.be/Q8AxhbCL-rM?... More information about my app GECO: uwyn.com/geco/

11 years ago I released GECO, the first musical gesture controller that allowed musicians to create in multiple dimensions with both hands in thin air. Today, the interest in this space is bigger than ever and after releasing GECO v2, it's still holding its own. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0cE...

Every time I start playing music now, he comes sit in front of me and looks at me lovingly. It fills my heart sooo much! 🥰❤️