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Don Slepian

Don Slepian

Don Slepian has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 15 June 2015. Don Slepian's music has been featured on 19 episodes.

Don Slepian combines skills in music and electronics in a career of performing electronic classical music. An exciting performer in a conservative style, he embodies the present-day trend of combining high technology with high art.

Born into a scientific family, Slepian showed both musical and technical talent early in life. By 1969 he was already programming computers, building electronic music circuitry, and sampling, looping and crossfading sounds with classic electronic music studio tape techniques. In 1971 he worked as a wiring technician in the computer sound output room in the Acoustics and Behavioral Research Department of Bell Telephone Laboratorles in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In the fall of that year, Slepian moved to Hawaii and entered an experimental program at the University of Hawaii that allowed him to major in electronic music. He first learned and then taught classes in all the early analog synthesizers and worked in commercial soundtracks before becoming a full-time theater musician. In 1979 he began his video art work, starting with the Chromaton 14 Analog Video Synthesizer. By the end of '79 Slepian returned to Bell Labs, where he spent two years working with their most advanced digital synthesizer. From that time until the present he has produced his current discography of 8 CDs and began his collaboration with Stuart Diamond, forming the currently active Electric Diamond ensemble. He currently hosts ArtMusicCoffeehouse, a weekly musical webcast show heard throughout America and Asia.

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Don Slepian

Don Slepian has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 15 June 2015. Don Slepian's music has been featured on 19 episodes.

Don Slepian combines skills in music and electronics in a career of performing electronic classical music. An exciting performer in a conservative style, he embodies the present-day trend of combining high technology with high art.

Born into a scientific family, Slepian showed both musical and technical talent early in life. By 1969 he was already programming computers, building electronic music circuitry, and sampling, looping and crossfading sounds with classic electronic music studio tape techniques. In 1971 he worked as a wiring technician in the computer sound output room in the Acoustics and Behavioral Research Department of Bell Telephone Laboratorles in Murray Hill, New Jersey. In the fall of that year, Slepian moved to Hawaii and entered an experimental program at the University of Hawaii that allowed him to major in electronic music. He first learned and then taught classes in all the early analog synthesizers and worked in commercial soundtracks before becoming a full-time theater musician. In 1979 he began his video art work, starting with the Chromaton 14 Analog Video Synthesizer. By the end of '79 Slepian returned to Bell Labs, where he spent two years working with their most advanced digital synthesizer. From that time until the present he has produced his current discography of 8 CDs and began his collaboration with Stuart Diamond, forming the currently active Electric Diamond ensemble. He currently hosts ArtMusicCoffeehouse, a weekly musical webcast show heard throughout America and Asia.

Original source: Last.fm

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Awakening
Don Slepian
Plumeria Productions1980
Awakening
Don Slepian
Fortuna Records1983
Open Spaces
Don Slepian
Plumeria Productions1980
Sunrise
Don Slepian
Fortuna Records1982
Horizon
Don Slepian
Not On Label (Don Slepian Self-released)1978
Glimmerings
Don Slepian
I.M. Music1981
Sonic Perfume
Don Slepian
Audion Recording Co1987
Sea Of Bliss
Don Slepian
Fortuna Records1983
Glimmerings
Don Slepian
Not On Label (Don Slepian Self-released)1978
Grace
Don Slepian
Audion Recording Co1986