Stephanie Salas-Vega

Sep 2, 2024 | flipboard.com | Stephanie Salas-Vega

Roller CoastersNowVideo North Texas dad builds roller coaster for his kidsABC News • 29mThe twins Felipe and Evelyn asked their creative dad to build the roller coaster in their front yard.

Aug 30, 2024 | yoursun.com | Stephanie Salas-Vega

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Aug 26, 2024 | dentonrc.com | Stephanie Salas-Vega |Stephanie Salas-Vega KERA

Daron Beck, a former Denton musician best known as the vocalist and keyboardist of experimental sci-fi synth-doom duo Pinkish Black, has died. The band’s label Relapse Records announced the news in an Instagram post on Aug. 23. The post revealed Beck died from an illness. “Daron was a kind, tremendously funny, and gentle soul that made some of the most creative and compelling music ever released on Relapse Records,” according to the Instagram post.

Aug 26, 2024 | dentonrc.com | Stephanie Salas-Vega

From melodic ambient music to experimental noise, more North Texas musicians are creating music that emphasizes mood and texture over musical structure. Many ambient and experimental musicians perform using a series of synthesizers and hardware with knobs, buttons and dozens of patch cables. They can be found playing in vacant hotel lobbies, contemporary art galleries and movie theaters. To them, it’s about finding the right spaces where art meets music.

Aug 23, 2024 | dentonrc.com | Stephanie Salas-Vega |Stephanie Salas-Vega KERA

DALLAS — Building a modular synthesizer is a lot like playing with Legos. These synthesizers are made up of different modules, or electronic circuits. The modules can be mixed and matched freely, and patch them together and suddenly electricity turns into sound. Keaton Collins started building his modular synthesizer in 2020. He uses it to produce ethereal, melodic soundscapes. Collins cases his modules, some which he soldered himself, in a wooden cabinet he built.