Artist description Six musicians with wide-ranging experience and interests, overlapping in experimental electronic music.

Music Style experimental electronic

Musical Influences John Cage, Morton Subotnick, Tangerine Dream

Similar Artists Tangerine Dream

Artist History Originally formed in the early 90's as the Milwaukee Electronic Music Ensemble, MEME was founded in 1997 as the Midwest Electronic Music Ensemble.We all met on line before discovering that we lived fairly close by Chicago/Milwaukee area, met together as a result of common interest in experimental electronic music and classic analog modular synthesizers.There were five of us at the beginning: Andre Stordeur, Michael Firman, John Papiewski, Grant Richter, and Darwin Grosse.Jack McCarthy joined about a year later. Two of our members have given concerts in Europe.

Group Members Andre Stordeur, Grant Richter, Darwin Grosse, Michael Firman, John Papiewski, Jack McCarthy

Instruments Serge and Wiard modular synthesizers, minimoogs, synthi AKS, some digital stuff, guitars, shakuhachi, alto sax

Press Reviews The *REAL* action was in Chicago this weekend. I had the opportunity to get out the Compound (this is rare) and have dinner......The entertainment for the evening was none other than MEME (Midwest electronic music ensemble) in town for the "Round the Coyote" winter arts festival. The lineup for this gig consisted of present and former? AH memebers:Jack McCarthy John Papiewski Michael Firman (the man who continually BLOWS MY MIND, and is AH list member.... Andre' Stordeur was sadly absent from the show)If you guys have a chance to see them i HIGHLY suggest it...they do their own brand of "Classic Electronic Music" The evenings setup was minimal compared to MEME shows in the past....(usual MEME shows have had no less then 4 complete modular systems...) Fridays main performance setup was , Buchla Thunder (controlling some FM?) Serge Modular and JD800.....Quality stuff.

Location Naperville, IL - USA

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