Planetarium Music is a music / audio collage project started by myself, Alex Bundy, in 2000. Its modus operandi is to explore the genre of psychedelic electronic music that started in the mid '70s with predominately German artists such as Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream, and carried on through the '80s and '90s by artists such as Robert Rich and Steve Roach. This type of music is commonly associated with planetariums, and thus the name. The genre appeals to me because at its best it borders both on saccharin "easy listening" and on the strange, unusual, and "difficult."

I have been fascinated by synthesizer music for most of my life. An interest in punk and synth-pop led me to early industrial bands such as Cabaret Voltaire, which in turn led me to both "experimental" industrial music and academic electronic music. Although I have always played instruments a little, I didn't start writing my own music until I almost simultaneously became involved in the electronic music program at Lewis & Clark College and started playing synthesizers in the psychedelic drone-rock band Yume Bitsu. My time with Yume Bitsu opened up my eyes to the world of psychedelic music and its similarities with (and differences from) other "experimental" musics.

I currently live in Santa Barbara. I am in the graduate program in Philosophy at UCSB.

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