Steve Roach is in town for not only a performance of Electronic/Ambient music tonight but he will also be visiting the Phoenix Synth Meetup going on at Paradise Valley Community College tomorrow. The small Performing Arts Theater on the campus meant that our general admission seats were going to be reasonable no matter where we sat and although we arrived 5 minutes before the start of the performance we were still in the second row. This is not the first time I’ve wondered why when something is free or general admission that many people don’t want to be upfront but if they have to pay for a seat they want front row center?

Last night we were here at the same location for jazz group Union32 that was performing with TSONE who was playing a Eurorack synthesizer for the set.

Not only is the Synth Meet going on Saturday from 1:00 to 5:00 but then at 7:30 there’ll be nearly half a dozen local synth groups and players taking us into the night with their bleeps and bloops.