The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble

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New 120-minute net album available at the Internet Archive Free Space 2007-2008 Collection, featuring all of the tracks below.

Free improvisational analog synthesizer music.

Hal McGee plus invited participants - different personnel lineups at each session and live performance: Andrew Chadwick, , Aaron Zarzutzki, Kristin Calvarese, Jay Peele, Jen Abell, Gabe Loewenberg, Brad Kokay, SOS, Christopher Cprek (Pax Titania), Jesi Langdale, Adam Batley (The Viirus), K Paul Boyev (Otolathe)...

Free Space uses analog synthesizers, such as: Moog Voyager RME, Moog Rogue, Micromoog, Moog MG-1, Little Boy Black, Crumar Performer, Moog Sonic Six, Octave Cat, Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Moog Etherwave Theremin.

Keywords: analog, raw, primitive, free improvisation, intuitive, noisy, space, beatless, drone, exploration, psychedelic.

Free Space 042608 Jam 1 (15:12)

Jesi Langdale on Octave Cat, Bobby Moseley on Moog Rogue, Hal McGee on Moog Voyager RME

Jesi plays the Octave Cat

Bobby with the Moog Rogue

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Free Space 090107 Jam 1 (11:45)

K Paul and Adam Batley

Recorded during the eighth Free Space studio recording session, Saturday, September 1, 2007, at Hal McGee's apartment in Gainesville, Florida. On this recording: Adam Batley (The Viirus) - Little Boy Black synthesizer, K Paul Boyev (Otolathe) - Moog Voyager RME, Andrew Chadwick - Moog MG-1, Jesi Langdale - Moog Rogue, Hal McGee - Moog Voyager RME.

Hal McGee and Jesi Langdale

Jesi Langdale plays theremin and Andrew Chadwick plays Moog Rogue during the second jam of the session

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Free Space live at Stardust (9:16)

Audio document of the first live performance of Free Space was at Stardust Coffee & Video, in Orlando, Florida, on July 20, 2007 - complete with Free Space warm-up sounds and ambient audience chatter... Hal McGee (Moog Etherwave Theremin), Bobby Moseley (Moog MG-1), Christopher Cprek (x0xb0x, Scarab Oscillator, Polypentagonal Tonefaker), and Aaron Zarzutzki (Moog Rogue). Kristin Calvarese, Lissajou, Pax Titania, Aaron Zarzutzki, and Praew Jik also played that night. Audio recording by Joshua Manchester on a Sony Discman MZM100 with a Sony 957 microphone. Manchester created the 64 kbps mp3 above. Special thanks to Dustin (Praew Jik) for organizing the show. Photograph above by Jen Sandwich.

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Free Space 072607 Jam 1 (16:47)

Recorded during the fourth Free Space studio recording session, July 26, 2007, at Hal McGee's apartment in Gainesville, Florida. Adam Batley (The Viirus) - Sequential Circuits Pro-One, Andrew Chadwick - Crumar Performer, Bobby Moseley - Moog Voyager RME, Jesi Langdale - Moog Rogue, Hal McGee - Moog MG-1.

Adam Batley (The Viirus) playing the Sequential Circuits Pro-One, 072607

Jesi Langdale playing the Moog Rogue, 072607

Andrew Chadwick playing the Crumar Performer, and Adam Batley, 072607

Bobby Moseley playing the Moog Voyager RME, and Jesi Langdale, 072607

Hal McGee and Adam Batley, 072607

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Free Space live at Action Research #4 (20:00)

Recorded live at the 2nd Street Bakery, Gainesville, Florida, on July 21, 2007, Action Research Show #4. Jay Peele - Micromoog and Moog MG-1, Hal McGee - Moog Voyager RME, SOS - Moog Rogue. Mono audio document recorded on cassette. Mastering and post-production by Jay Peele.

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Free Space 071307 Jam 1 (16:47)

Jay Peele (legs and mix), SOS playing the Moog MG-1, Gabe Loewenberg playing the Moog Rogue, Hal McGee on Moog Rogue, and Jen Abell on Moog Voyager RME.

photograph by Jen Sandwich

This is the first improvisation from the July 13, 2007 recording session of my new group, Free Space. It is a free form improvisational analog synthesizer space-noise exploration by Jen Abell (Paramutual Operator) - Moog Voyager RME, Hal McGee - Moog Rogue, Gabe Loewenberg - Moog Rogue, and SOS (Astral Planes Farmer) - Moog MG-1, Jay Peele - mix.

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Kristin Calvarese playing the Moog MG-1

Free Space 070807 Jam 1 excerpt (7:37)

Excerpt from the July 8, 2007 recording session of my new group, Free Space. It is a free form improvisational analog synthesizer space-noise exploration by, from left to right, Kristin Calvarese (Moog MG-1), Hal McGee (Octave Cat), Aaron Zarzutzki (Moog Sonic Six), and Bobby Moseley (Moog Rogue).

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Hal McGee playing the Moog Voyager RME (with Bobby and Aaron)

Andrew Chadwick (Ironing) playing the Crumar Performer

Bobby Moseley playing the Moog MG-1

Aaron Zarzutzki playing the Moog Rogue and Little Boy Black

Free Space 070607 Jam 2 excerpt (6:47)

Here is an excerpt from the first studio recording session of Hal McGee's new group, Free Space. Free Space is the sister group of The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble. The personnel lineup of the group will be different at each recording session and live performance. Like The Analog Synthesizer Ensemble, Free Space creates free form improvisational space music explorations with analog synthesizers. The first session was held Friday, July 6, 2007, at Hal McGee's apartment in Gainesville, Florida. On this excerpt taken from the second improvisation you will hear, from left to right, Aaron Zarzutzki (Moog Rogue, Little Boy Black), Bobby Moseley (Moog MG-1), Hal McGee (Moog Voyager RME), and Andrew Chadwick (Crumar Performer).