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| pongthrob.com is the online presence of Toronto composer/synthesist and author Graham Collins.
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In addition to serving as composer for
Odessa Filmworks and other Canadian
independent film-makers over the years, Graham has backed up alt-country performers Kathleen Edwards and 'Slo' Tom Stewart. For several years he was Music Director at the Ottawa improv club 'The iNSTiTUTiON', as well as with Toronto sketch troupe Radio Vault. He currently is a member of the house band for Lunacy Cabaret - a monthly show that is part vaudeville, part burlesque, part circus, and all fun. Other creative outlets include forays into an
experimental fusion of analog audio and live analog video, primarily via artist residency at
the
Experimental Television Center in Owego, NY.
Forthcoming projects include an all-analog-synth rock band, and a Canadian 'Moog'
album featuring classic hits that should satisfy even the most stringent of Cancon junkies
entitled "The Electric Beaver". Graham has previously served as an instructor in Synthesis at The Audio Recording Academy and
currently writes a regular column on Synthesis for the Canadian magazine Muzik ETC. Many of these articles
are available on this website for reading in the Articles section.
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| Musical influences include in no particular order:
Thomas Newman, Mychael Danna, Steve Reich, Leonard Bernstein, Stravinsky, Wagner, Keith Jarrett,
ragtime/vaudevillian piano and music for silent films, Thomas Dolby, Brian Eno, David Kristian, Pete Namlook,
NIN, Six Finger Sattelite, Motorhead, Devo, and Goblin.
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| He prefers not talking in the third person.
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