A Synthesist Performing Original Electronic Music & Multimedia Concerts in Colorado and Beyond
It s kind of hard to believe that I started the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet 14 years ago 😲 and we re now over 300 members strong. To celebrate, I m hosting the 14th Anniversary Party at the Junkyard Social Club in Boulder. This event is a FREE SYNTH MEET: PETTING ZOO GEAR SWAP LIVE MUSIC [ ]
I’ve been using the Octatrack since 2013 🦾. The Octatrack was my main machine when learning live electronic improvisation as a live samplist with the late great Darwin Grosse with the original (no)poem, and Dino J.A. Deane. Way back then, when this blog was called Modulate This!, I created that mind map in MindMeister to help others learn this deep machine. [ ]
I m super excited to let you know that I ll be performing a live synth set at the afterparty for the Dance Continua Festival at Spark in Boulder on both nights, Friday and Saturday (June 12-13). 🎟️ Tickets and more info here https://dancecontinua.org/the-dance-continua-festival. I ll be performing a music only set called Doppelgänger a cinematic, groovebox-driven live performance [ ]
I, along with Langdon Crawford, am producing the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet s International Drone Day 2026 concert representing Boulder, CO. The concert will be a YouTube Premier on Saturday, May 30, at 10:00 AM Mountain Time (16:00 GMT). This year, rather than contributing in a solo piece, I instead edited three live gig performance videos [ ]
Big news—I got a Tonverk! Yay! I initially held back to see where Elektron would take the new platform. When they added the Grainer engine, my interest grew. After getting hands-on time with a Tonverk at a Buchla and Friends event in Los Angeles and talking with Chris ON-PREM, Eric SURC0, and Mathew EZBOT, I [ ]
I'm performing at Freq Boutique 097 on December 9th, 7pm at Fort Greene Bar in Denver. It's free, in-person, and livestreamed. I'll be performing some new songs using Ableton Push 3 and Move with sounds from Drift and Wavetable.
The holiday season is here so I wanted to offer you a holiday gift: all 4 Sonic Encounters albums are now available for free download on https://markmosher.bandcamp.com/. That s about 3 hours and 45 minutes of music you can enjoy offline on the road, at the airport, while waiting for a train, or even while relaxing [ ]
Ableton Live 12.3, Push 3 Standalone 12.3, and Ableton Move 1.8 have just been released, bringing a huge number of new features and improvements to the platforms and ecosystem. I took the time to gather the core highlights from each update and compiled links to the official release notes below for easy reference. Use the [ ]
Happy Halloween! This year, I m celebrating in style, sporting my official DEVO energy dome! To mark the occasion, I created this happy, twisted, and trippy techno track using only the Ableton Move called Subcarrier Happiness Dispatch 101 . Inspired by DEVO and Mark Mothersbaugh s work on whimsical themes, and John Carpenter s film They Live . Here is [ ]
I ll be performing a live set at the upcoming HARDWHERE? show. The lineup features four artists, each playing 30-minute or so sets with breaks in between. 🎟️ FREE📅 Sunday, October 12, 2–6 PM📍The Vinyl Reset, 6485B Federal, Denver My rig will mainly feature the Octatrack, performing live versions of songs from my recent EP Flip [ ]
I have a fun EP for you on this Bandcamp Friday, Flip Phone, a one-take recording from an Octatrack live set rehearsal. The album is loaded with fun sci-fi and field recording sample flips, dramatic tempo changes, and plenty of synth ear candy. For listener convenience, the EP is organized into individual tracks for those [ ]
Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet 13th Anniversary It s hard to believe the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet is celebrating its 13th anniversary with our 160th free community event! I m excited to be hosting and performing as Puppets Go Last at this special milestone celebration. The event is a SYNTH PETTING ZOO GEAR SWAP — where members [ ]
Thomas Murphy Queen City Sounds Blog / Podcast Queen City Sounds Full Review Mark put in around 200 hours in getting the video component prepared for this unique performance in which he was controlling the video in real time along with the music and the image design was this brilliant evocation of theme parks [ ]
Video Here is a link to Calibrating Dark Matter in 4K created using only a Tempera granular synthesizer. This original song and video were my submission to the Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet s 2025 Drone Day Celebration livestream. STORY A mysterious galaxy being travels among the stars, calibrating dark matter. Each careful adjustment ripples through reality s [ ]
In celebration of International Drone Day, I m hosting a Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet premier on YouTube representing Boulder, CO, USA on Saturday May 24th at 10 AM Mountain time, 16:00 GMT. Link to video is here. You can set a reminder now and go here when show starts https://youtu.be/RGcIKLDn3Vs Attendees will be able to [ ]
After dedicating hundreds of hours over the past four months, I m excited to share a behind-the-scenes look at my upcoming interactive concert experience debuting at the Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF) on Saturday May 31, at 6:30 PM. In this first post, I ll explore the creative vision and collaborative efforts that brought this unique multimedia [ ]
It s Bandcamp Friday—a perfect time to explore your favorite artists catalogs and support them with a purchase. Swing by https://markmosher.bandcamp.com to check out my 7 albums, 4 EPs, and 12 singles. Bandcamp Fridays—on which we waive our revenue share and pass the funds directly to artists labels—has resulted in millions of fans paying over $120 million [ ]
I m excited to announce that I ll be performing as a solo artist at the Lafayette Electronic Arts Festival (LEAF). I will be debuting a new multimedia electronic music concert experience I’ve been working on for a number of months. I hope to see you there and please pass it on. EVENT DETAILS 📅 Saturday, May [ ]
I m excited to perform a 20-minute set at the Electrowave Festival on Friday, March 14th, at the ENT Center for the Arts in Colorado Springs in the Margot Lane Studio. Evening concert event begins at 7:30 PM. The Margot Lane Studio is a 2,000-square-foot rehearsal room featuring pristine acoustics for ensembles, recordings, film scoring, and [ ]
Happy New Year! For my first release of 2025, I have a fun new track for you. The Beauty Comes Out of the Spider s Nature is a sonic experiment on the Synthstrom Deluge groovebox that explores sample manipulation, glitch effects, and granular warping of music and spoken word through dramatic tempo changes. Performed in one-continuous-take [ ]
2024—just wow! I feel incredibly fortunate to have had such an amazing year playing and producing with synths and connecting with people in synth communities—both in-person in Colorado and Chicagoland, and virtually with my new friends from the Moray Firth Synthesizer Club Scotland. A huge thanks to everyone who came to shows and events. Special [ ]
Hello and a happy early Halloween to you! I have a scary number of events this week 👻. One event in Westminster and one in Boulder. Both events are free, but please take a moment to RSVP using the links below. Also, if you are looking for some creepy Halloween music to scare your neighbors, [ ]
I just released a new video Temporal Drift A live performance in one take. Ableton Move Launchkey Mini MK4. This machine is incredibly fun. Here I am, trying to squeeze as much as I can out of the Move s four tracks after just a week of owning it—haha. This song was performed in [ ]
Ableton has an experimental feature in Ableton Live 12.1 that allows you to export presets to Ableton Move and Ableton Note. Currently, you can export Drum Racks and Drift presets if they adhere to a format that will work within the restrictions of the subset of features supported by Ableton Move/Note. The following devices can [ ]
Over the last few months, I’ve been using SonoBus to do some real-time synthesizer jam sessions across the network with multiple Rocky Mountain Synthesizer Meet members. To do this, we are using SonoBus, which is an “application for streaming high-quality, low-latency peer-to-peer audio between devices over the internet or a local network.” It is open-source, [ ]