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Mike Walters

mysterycircuits

About Me

Hello. I'm Mike Walters, I live in NYC. I moved here from Carrboro, North Carolina in June 2007.
In NC, I played keyboards with Jett Rink when the band existed from 2001-2006, Dexter Romweber and the New Romans from 2005-2007, and with Tara Busch when she lived here in 2006, and we recorded an album. She moved to LA last year. And taeioualert .
I now play in a band in Brooklyn called fan-tan with some other NC expatriates.

Also, I build electronic instruments called Mystery Circuits and have them on my website: www.mysterycircuits.com
I've been married for 5 years to a wonderful woman named Ruth who's a Pathologist at NYU.
I enjoy inventing wacky devices that generate sounds electronically, and playing old synthesizers and organs. I also repair old synthesizers and organs, though I've pretty much decided to just work on my own stuff due to lack of enough workspace and time.
I don't eat cheese.
Here are some videos from 2006 of two instruments I built:

My Interests

analog synthesizers, music, electronics, the Eighties, Eurovans, retro future, Polymoogs, DIY, circuit bending

Music:

Devo, Gary Numan, Japan, Ultravox, Kraftwerk, Madness, The Cars, The Clash, Wall of Voodoo, Roxy Music, Human League, Echo and The Bunnymen, Small Faces, Magazine, Moody Blues, Pere Ubu, La Düsseldorf, Simple Minds, The Sound, Comsat Angels, The Jam, ELO,

Heroes:

Raymond Scott, Bob Moog, Mark Mothersbaugh, Gary Numan, Brian Eno, Bill Currie, Dave Formula.