We are pleased to present an evening of electronic music with Andrew Raffo Dewar and Rich O’Donnell.

Performing on his Serge synthesizer, Andrew Raffo Dewar’s approach to electronic music is detailed, complex, and technically astute. His performance will no doubt be a masterclass of analogue synthesis.

Rich O’Donnell will present new compositions of electronic music. With his latest compositions, Rich demonstrates the power inherent in non-traditional music to link the uncanny depths of the unconscious to a new imaginative realizations through subtle timbrel modulation and thoughtful structural composition.

Andrew Raffo Dewar (b.1975 Rosario, Argentina) is a composer, soprano saxophonist, ethnomusicologist, educator, and arts organizer. His work has been performed throughout North America, Southeast Asia and Europe, and he has studied and performed with avant-garde jazz legends Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon, and experimental music composer Alvin Lucier. He has also had a long involvement with Indonesian traditional and experimental music, in particular the Minangkabau music of West Sumatra. Dr. Dewar is an Associate Professor in New College and the School of Music at the University of Alabama.

Rich O'Donnell has spent 65 years as virtuoso percussionist, improviser, composer, designer and builder of percussion and electronic instruments, teacher and writer.  He is co-founder of HEARDing Cats Collective.  He was director of the Electronic Music Studio at Washington University in St. Louis from 1980-2018. He was 43 years with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, most of them as principal percussionist.

A short clip from Andrew’s last visit to St. Louis: