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Saul Stokes

About Me

Saul Stokes is an American electronic musician and composer. He creates music that most would consider ambient or downtempo. Stokes builds his own electronic music instruments which include handheld synthesizers, rhythms pads, and hand held controllers. He has released over 8 albums on labels within the United States, Canada, and Holland. In addition to performing in the Bay Area (San Francisco area), Stokes has performed live in Canada, and Europe. Recently he released his latest album Villa Galaxia on Portland's Binary label. Stokes has composed music for the Electronic Art's hit video game SPORE and runs an online electronic percussion sample library called Blipdrums.com.


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Member Since: 2/17/2007
Band Website: http://www.saulstokes.com
Band Members: Stokes
Influences: Little Dragon, Little Dragon, Little Dragon!
Record Label: The Foundry, Binary, Hypnos, Databloem
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Sky Lantern video featuring the music of Saul Stokes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AahJrUXaY4U
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:48:00 GMT

Moments with Saul Stokes

http://spacemusic.nl/2009/01/11/moments-with-saul-...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:30:00 GMT

Finishing up!

It's been a while since I updated the progress on my travel synth. Actually, I finished it right before my concert in Mannheim. The instrument was shipped 2day fedex there and back and in both cases a...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:53:00 GMT

Getting Close

Today I've made some good progress on the synth. In fact, all the circuits are now hooked up. I'm basically, testing a circuit and when it works right, adding the knobs as an indicator that I'm finish...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:02:00 GMT

Coming together

Continuing on with the methodical process of rewiring all of my circuits to their new locations. This first shot shows the circuits being wired into place. The next shot shows the front panel with al...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:25:00 GMT

Knobs Knobs Knobs - losing it!

The most difficult part of this synth was fixing the old seqencer into it's new home. I'm done with this and it seems to be working great so far. I have to say, the small circle of LEDs is a blast. Al...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:54:00 GMT

Let the drilling begin

I finished laying out all the modules I'm going to put into this new travel case. Off the top of my head:8 stage sequencervcms 3 filtermoog transistor ladder filterbuchla band passwasp filterserge ri...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 23:59:00 GMT

Getting ready to drill!

Here's a shot of the front panel of this travel synth. I'm carefully setting each module where I want it to go. You can see the center circle sequencer coming together. The aluminum I had cut for this...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 22:19:00 GMT

Sequencer Layout

I've been working out the sequencer portion of this new travel synth. Here's an illustrator file of the layout. Like my larger synth, I've decided to build this one in a circle with blue LEDs in the c...
Posted by on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:15:00 GMT

Building a better synthesizer for live performance

In July, I'll be perfoming at a soon to announce outdoor venue in Mannheim, Germany. I've decided to take a part my smaller travel synth, fix some of the bad wiring going on inside of it, and rebuild ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:24:00 GMT