President - Founder of the Sound Synthesis Club.

Composer, Sound Designer and Senior Acoustics Engineer.

Dr. Chowning is known for having discovered the FM Synthesis algorithm in 1967.

In 1983, Yamaha made their first commercially successful digital FM Synthesizer the DX7.

Dr. Chowning was the first Guest Speaker at the Sound Synthesis Club.

Frederick Rousseau (born 1958 in Paris) is a New Age instrumentalist. His musical research is based on electronic sounds that he mixes with ethnic instruments, classical orchestras, and vocals.

Michelle is the Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation.

The Bob Moog Foundation honors the pioneering legacy of Bob Moog by educating and inspiring children and adults through electronic music. I manage all of the foundation's operations, projects, and relationships including but not limited to our educational projects and historic preservation efforts, growing our volunteer and donor base, forming strategic partnerships, growing our infrastructure and defining our vision for the future.

Neuronium is a Spanish electronic music group created by Michel Huygen in 1976. Over 40 albums have been released under the Neuronium/Michel Huygen label.

www.neuronium.com

Synthesizer expert and composer. He is best known for Synergy, his 1975–1987 series of synthesizer music albums, and for his contributions to a number of popular music acts, including Peter Gabriel, Foreigner, and Hall and Oates

www.synergy-emusic.com

Chief Scientist of Rossum Electro Music.

Contemporary film composer, recording artist, and performer. He scored films such as: Phantom, Traffic, Black Hawk Down and The Thin Red Line.

www.jeffrona.com 

Grosskopf  started his career in the 1960s as a drummer in the beat group The Stuntmen, and toward the end of the decade played in a then-unknown Scorpions. He later played drums in Wallenstein and Ashra, as well as for many of Klaus Schulze's solo albums.

www.haraldgrosskopf.de

Designed the electronic music instrument Hartmann Neuron in the years 2001-2005. The Neuron synthesizer used an Artificial Neural Network to create a digital computer model from sampled sounds, implementing a new synthesis technology which was developed by Stephan Bernsee at Prosoniq. 

www.neuronsynth.com

Norwegian composer and musician, guitarist and synthesist. He has a background in various genres in music. As a solo recording artist, he is most known for his electronic and ambient musical soundscapes. Music that can be classified in the genres of space, drone, new age, and electronic music.

www.wollo.com

French sound-engineer, instrument designer and musician who was a long-time collaborator of Jean Michel Jarre. Among his designs are the Matriséquencer and the Digisequencer sequencers.
 

Anthony Marinelli has been and influential musical force for over 35 years, showcasing his versatility in varios genres ranging from orchestral film scores to analog synthesizers. With a unique combination of intuition and extensive musical training, he translates the visions of prominent artists and directors into iconic music. Marinelli has collaborated with legendary figures such as Michael Jackson, James Brown, Lionel Ritchie, Van Halen, and Dianne Reeves, among others. His filmography boasts over 90 original film soundtracks including hits like “Young Guns” and “2 Days in the Valley”, as well as contributions to renowned films like “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and video games like “Far Cry 5: Lost on Mars.”

Rolf Wöhrmann is the CTO of Waldorf and one of the designers of the Waldorf Quantum high-class hybrid (polyphonic aftertouch pressure-providing) and Iridium digital synthesizer keyboards, also (FPGA-based) Iridium digital desktop synthesizers, finally hardware Eurorack modules.

Sound Designer for KARO - Korg Oasys and Kronos families.

www.karo-sounds.com

Bo is an incredible DX programmer and a very good player as well.  Yamaha held absolutely the best product training seminars back during the introduction of the DX line hosted by Bo Tomlyn. 

Julius O. Smith teaches a music signal-processing course sequence and supervises related research at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). He is formally a professor of music and associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. In 1975, he received his BS/EE degree from Rice University, where he got a solid grounding in the field of digital signal processing and modeling for control. In 1983, he received the PhD/EE degree from Stanford University, specializing in techniques for digital filter design and system identification, with application to violin modeling. His work history includes the Signal Processing Department at Electromagnetic Systems Laboratories, Inc., working on systems for digital communications, the Adaptive Systems Department at Systems Control Technology, Inc., working on research problems in adaptive filtering and spectral estimation, and NeXT Computer, Inc., where he was responsible for sound, music, and signal processing software for the NeXT computer workstation. Prof. Smith is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and the Acoustical Society of America. He is the author of four online books and numerous research publications in his field.

Has spent more than 20 years as a sound designer for such legendary companies as Sequential Circuits, Kurzweil Music Systems, Yamaha, Nord, and Roland. Through his work at Kurzweil, he has had the unparalleled opportunity to work with renowned musical artists while designing 5.1 sound FX for animated video shorts.

Started out as the first official Moog clinician in 1973, demonstrating and contributing to designs for Moog Music. In 1976 he started working with Dave Smith to promote his Model 800 sequencer, and then helped specify the Model 700 Programmer. This association led to development of the Prophet 5, and then on to the entire line of Sequential Circuits products. 

www.johnbowen.com

Used to work for Quasimidi, Korg, Access and Waldorf. He is the head behind Radikal Technologies. The Spectralis and the Accelerator  are best known for  beeing the best sounding synths of the world. His love for deep sound textures, sound FXs and evolving sequences brought him together with Klaus Schulze.

 Mr. Ryle co-founded Fast Forward Designs in 1985, which developed groundbreaking products for Alesis, Digidesign and other companies before becoming Line 6 in 1996. Mr. Ryle's long history and expertise in technology and product development have resulted in the co-invention of 17 US patents. In 2012, Mr. Ryle was inducted into the first annual Keyboard Hall of Fame. He has played keyboards and/or created sounds for several motion picture and television soundtracks, as well as numerous professional recording artists including Barbra Streisand, Olivia Newton-John, Christopher Cross, Chicago, Chaka Khan and Lee Ritenour.

Stefano Lucato is a professional musician, musical producer, developer, and programmer who has made several records, and musical productions for Italian radio and television. His passion for music is paralleled by his interests in acoustical physics and technologies for sound synthesis, and by his dedication to programming. He began his collaboration with Dr. Giorgio Tommasini in 2003, a partnership which eventually led to the development of proprietary techniques, including “Determination of modal resonances and the impulse response of an instrument by analysis of pitched sounds”. Their collaboration also resulted in the creation of MIDI processors used for the first prototypes of solo strings instruments: “The Stradivari Violin”, presented at NAMM in January of 2005.

Stefano later developed a revolutionary method of sample handling, allowing real-time multi-vector morphing across time, timbre, and pitch. This technology (“Synchronous Wave Triggering”) was applied for the first time to Mr. Sax T., the virtual tenor saxophone developed in collaboration with Samplemodeling. In 2009, Stefano began his collaboration with engineer Emanuele Parravicini on the development of a new and more powerful technology: the SWAM engine.

In 2017, together with Emanuele, he founded Audio Modeling. He is currently the CEO of the company.

Emanuele is a Telecommunications Engineer, freelancer, and developer. While at university, he studied in-depth subjects such as signal theory, random processes, digital signal processing, and software development, and later earned his Master’s degree in Information Technologies. Lele is also a musician and singer who loves music and audio applications.

Since 2002, he’s worked with large companies as a programmer and also as a project manager, and has developed many Web-based projects in PHP, Java, and some C++. In 2007, he started developing audio plugins and working on digital audio research, and began his collaboration with Stefano Lucato on the SWAM engine project in September of 2009. In 2015 he started collaborating with Simone Capitani on the Camelot project.

Emanuele is currently the CTO for both SWAM and Camelot, and Sales Manager at Audio Modeling.

Simone has a background in Electronics Engineering, and has been a User Experience designer and researcher since 2009. His latest projects in the music industry include:

Wizdom Music: UX Design on Jordan Rudess’s music apps

ROLI: UX Design on Equator Synth, Noise app for iOS (employee and freelance)

Mind Music Labs: UX consultancy on Sensus guitar iOS app (freelance)

KORG Italy: UX consultancy on new product development (freelance)

Simone’s contribution to Audio Modeling is focused mainly on projects and partnerships coordination, UX design, User Acceptance Testing and Quality Assurance.

He is currently Marketing Director of Audio Modeling and UX Designer for both SWAM and Camelot.

From mid 90’s on, Frank began to release Electronic/Cinematic music under his own name. Up to today 7 albums and one ‘best of’of very high quality instrumental music have been released. This music has been awarded several times with the 1999 album ‘Geographic’ being the stand out , having received all three German Schwingungen (WDR) 2000 awards for best album, best artist and best song.

www.frankvanbogaert.com

Considered one of the most important jazz pianists in the current scene, venezuelan Otmaro Ruiz is known for its versatility and virtuosity in his own language both at the acoustic piano and in the electronic world of synthesizers. The long list of re-known musicians with whom Otmaro works: John McLaughlin, Tito Puente, Arturo Sandoval, John Patitucci, Paquito D’Rivera, Frank Gambale, Peter Erskine, David Weckl, Art Davis Quintet, Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, Gino Vannelli, Marcus Miller and Jon Anderson.

www.otmaroruiz.com

Composer and sound designer who studied computer generated music with John Chowning and Max Mathews at Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence labs in the early 1970.

German composer who has composed music for several movies and games, in addition to two solo albums. In 1996, he was nominated for an Emmy award (best theme song) for his work on the short-lived sci-fi series Dark Skies. 

Hoenig was part of the burgeoning progressive rock scene in Berlin, which fostered bands like Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel and Agitation Free.

www.imdb.com/name/nm0006129

Progressive rock group Tempano. Tempano has served as the opening act for such greats as Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Yes, Kansas, Steve Hacket (Genesis) and many others.

www.tempano.com

Korg Product Specialist

Danish musician, known as a pioneer in the New Age genre. 

He studied music at the University of Copenhagen. His work is notable for its deft orchestration and a wide variety of featured instruments, including harp, zither, dulcimer, bouzouki, glockenspiel, and guitars. Klaus Schønning was also one of the first musicians to release his music independently.

www.schonning.dk

Organist, composer and synthesist. His compositions include chamber music, music for organ, choir and electronics as well as film and theater music.

He has played with numerous renowned orchestras and ensembles as the Wiener Symphoniker, the Camerata Salzburg, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Orchestra of Birmingham, the Hamburger Symphoniker, the RSO Wien, the ensemble “Die Reihe” and the Arnold Schönberg Choir and has worked with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Michael Schønwandt, Erwin Ortner and Ton Koopmann.

Sound Designer and Product Development for Korg

Product manager at KORG who has played a vital role in establishing the team of engineers and programmers who have worked on many of the influential products produced by KORG over the last 30 years.

Sound designer and soundtrack composer of Cloud Atlas. Golden Globe Award nominated for Best Original Score.

Award winning sample library developer and a composer. He is the creator of libraries such as Forest Kingdom, Epic World, Era Medieval Legends, Cantus, Mystica, Shevannai, etc. He has been awarded with several 5 stars from Sound on Sound, and many other awards from the most prestigious magazines.

In 2014, Shevannai has been awarded with the Gold Medal to the Sample Library of the year by MusicTech magazine.

Started his career as a composer in 1992 and in 2005 as a sample library developer. In 2010 he started his own company, Sampling Arts SL and currently Best Service is releasing his libraries.

CEO and Founder of Access Virus.

Ian Boddy is a British composer who has been recording & releasing Electronic Music for the past 42 years. During this time he has released a huge catalogue of music as well as performing hundreds of concerts both in the UK as well as in Germany, The Netherlands & the USA. For the past 23 years he has run the Electronica label DiN which has over 100 releases by an internationally renowned collection of artists including Robert Rich, Node, ARC, Erik Wøllo, Bluetech & Markus Reuter. He also composes music for TV, documentaries and films and has done sound design work for the likes of Apple, Camel Audio, Soniccouture, Zero-G & Time & Space.

ian@ianboddy.com

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After studying Analog Synthesis at Northern Illinois University, Daniel became the Keyboardist for the US Army Rock Band, performing around the world.

Fisher programed professionally starting in 1985 with the DX7, and later, the Korg M1. After graduating Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music, with Dual Degrees in Music Synthesis, and Music Production & Engineering, Daniel became a Soundware Engineer for Kurzweil Music Systems.

In 1994, Daniel became the Director of the Sweetwater Soundware Development Facility until 2001 when he taught as an Associate Professor of Music Synthesis at Berklee for 5 years.

Fisher is now back at Sweetwater where he’s created factory programming for Korg, Roland, Alesis, Novation, Kurzweil, and Moog, and recently wrote the Owner’s Manual for the Moog Sub 37.

Head Academic Counselor at Music Institute of the University of Oldenburg, Germany.

www.uni-oldenburg.de/musik

Cesare Della Noce is the keyboard player, arranger and composer in the renowned rock-progressive band from Venezuela: Témpano

Besides his work with Témpano, Della Noce has composed and arranged music for independent works, theater and animation.

His musical production contemplates classic works from the Latin-American progressive stream such as:

Atabal Yemal (Témpano 1978-1998)

Childhood’s End (Témpano 2000)

The Agony and the Ecstasy (Témpano, prenominated to the Grammy award year 2002)

iX Ora pro Nobis (Month selection in Musea Records and Editor's Choice year 2006 on “the Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock”)

Escenas de la vida de Werner Hertz and El Observatorio Solar de Werner Hertz (Two animated short films)

-Dodecaedro: (With twelve Venezuelan bands exploring some ideas about the Dodecahedron by Carl Sagan)

Since 1988 official member of the KORG international voicing team in the sections Sound Design and Product Development for KORG Inc. Japan and KORG Italy S.p.A. Product-Highlights: M1, Trinity, i- & Pa-Series, OASYS, KRONOS.

A magazine editor, book author, graphic artist, college professor, composer, sound designer, recording engineer, studio synthesist, and bass player.

www.moogfoundation.org/tag/geary-yelton

Prof. Will Johnson has an Master in Arts in composition from University of California Berkeley and a Bachelor in Arts in Music from Princeton University. He studied with master of electro-acoustic music: Karlheinz Stockhausen in the University of Santa Cruz, California. Since 1969 he has taught at Sonoma State University, California.

Korg Research and Development Manager for products such as: Oasys and Kronos.

Chief Scientist at Audience.

Executive engineer, multimedia and audio specialist who joined Google in 2007 to help build the Android engineering team. After four successful years on Android, he was transferred to Project Glass, to work on Google's vision for wearable computing.

Mr. Sparks was the second Guest Speaker at the Sound Synthesis Club.

Studied at the Berkley College of Music and The Dick Grove School of Music. He worked as Keyboard Stage Manager on world tour 'Purple Rain' for Prince.
Jeff is currently the Director of Commercial Music Studies at West Valley College in Saratoga, California.

Eddie Bazil began his music career at 17, working with renowned bands like Art Of Noise and Pet Shop Boys and later as a sound designer for major brands like Akai and Emu/Ensoniq. He transitioned into developing software instrument libraries for companies like Native Instruments and Arturia. A collaboration with Capital Radio DJ, Phil Allen, birthed Samplecraze, a company Eddie dedicated 20 years to, focusing on music education. He secured contracts with well-known artists, worked as a producer for Island Records and Chrysalis, and even composed for the Cambridge Shakespeare Company. Additionally, he's authored books, written for Sound On Sound, and recently founded The Audio Production Hub for online learning and was invited to be a Grammy judge.