Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.

"Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. was formed in 1969 in Ithaca, NY as an ensemble dedicated to performing music not heard in the Ithaca area. We performed pieces by Robert Ashley, John Cage, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Steve Reich and others. Most of those composers were unknown then. We were the first group to play music of Philip Glass outside his own ensemble. In less than a year, through our friendship with Robert Moog, we developed into a live synthesizer ensemble, proabably the first one in the world. Steve Drews, Linda Fisher and I composed and performed our own pieces for an RMI Electric Piano (our only polyphonic instrument), three modular Moogs and two MiniMoogs including the prototype which is now on display at the Audities Foundation at the Chinook Keyboard Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The Moogs were gradually replaced by digital instruments, and the group underwent personnel changes. Now things have come full circle with analog sounds being in vogue once again. The latest addition to our collection is the Novation SuperNova, which features analogue sound modeling." (mothermallard.com)

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.