Artist description Solo musical project, consisting of William Penninger and various synthesizers, samplers and sequencers. Recently obtained an audio interface and future projects will contain guitars, bass, vocal, incantations, recitations and other sounds.I play bass with Fine Line in Springfield, MO. We do not play any of my songs. Yet.

Music Style Electronic/Instrumental Rock/Symphonic Rock/Synth Rock

Musical Influences John Coltrane, Chick Corea, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Robert Fripp, Charles Ives, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Antonin Dvorak, Arvo Part, John Fahey, David Crosby, Jean-Luc Ponty, James Joyce, William Butler yeats, Li Po, Lao Tzu, Claude Monet

Similar Artists I don't recall ever being compared to anyone.

Artist History In 1987, I acquired an Ensoniq ESQ-1.I acquired a Roland MT-32, a Yamaha TX-81Z and a Yamaha TG-33.At that point, I decided that I had outgrown the sequencer on the ESQ-1.I got a Brother PDC-100.It took me some time to learn how to use it.It was more sophisticated than the ESQ-1, but far more complex, too.At that point I realized how, when I am working with my equipment well, and when I know it well, we areone organism.The equipment is merely an extension of me and my soul.Then we are a kind of cyborg, creating Original ElectroniK ArtMusiK.I originally released some of the music here under the name, The Ministry for the Absorption of Protohumans, Androids & Cyborgs.Now I have a hardware sampler, software samplers and synths and the capability for hard-disk recording.My equipment and I are, at the moment, in the setranged part of my learning curve.Watch out!

Group Members William Holt Penninger, Jr.

Instruments Synthesizers, samplers, and sequencers. Will soon include guitars, bass and other instruments.

Albums The Accessible Penninger 1991; Fdt=mdv 1992; and The Coyote, the Scorpion & the Goat 1993

Press Reviews "This guy bleeds music, and it's obviously the outlet for his life energy.""His focus is contagious, and it takes you inward, far from the realm of fax machines and ISDN lines, and also outward, where you imagine the music that the stars and planets could produce.""Words like 'prog new age lite industrial' come to mind."

Location Springfield, Missouri - USA

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