There is a New Concert Announcement below.

The Soundscapes Concert Series is intended to bring electronic music to the Lehigh Valley by being the concert companion to Galactic Travels and Thought Radio, two radio shows in the Allentown - Lehigh Valley area of eastern Pennsylvania. Like the radio shows, SOUNDSCAPES features Electronic, Ambient and Spacemusic. There are many reasons for starting this concert series, not the least of which is to bring the music heard on Galactic Travels and Thought Radio to the area in a comfortable, friendly and relaxed concert setting. This also has the byproduct of providing valuable performance opportunities to the musicians who put so much energy into their craft. This is their chance to step out of the safety of their studios and connect with the fans of electronic music.

There is no better way to build community than through music. The goal of SOUNDSCAPES is to build a local Electronic Music community by providing an environment of music and the opportunity to meet like-minded people.

Friday, July 23, the Soundscapes Concert Series returns to the Nazareth Center for the Arts featuring MIKRONESIA. Doors open at 7:30 pm and the concert is at 8:00 pm. The concert is FREE and a suggested donation of $10 is requested to support the performer and to enable the Nazareth Center for the Arts to pay operating expenses. The NCA is located at 30 Belvidere Street, Nazareth, PA 18064 just off of Route 191 on the southwest corner of Belvidere Street and South Spruce Street. Check the NCA site for parking information at KNBT and Lafayette Ambassador banks. Here is a map to the NCA.

Mikronesia is Michael Reiley McDermott, a Philadelphia based composer, sound designer, and producer. He has studied computer science, composition and piano privately, at Philadelphia University, and at the Berklee College of Music. Michael is the co-director of earSnake, a new music collective and label based in Philadelphia. Mikronesia has released albums on Gears of Sand, kikapu, Nophi and earSnake recordings. Michael is a co-founder of the interdisciplinary dance and music collective, Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd, which is now performing and traveling across Europe.

Michael also performs, writes and produces in the electronic music ensemble Gemini Wolf which is a duo of song writing and electronics often augmented with strings, horns and percussion. Michael has scored music and sound design for choreographers Emily Sweeny, Here Begin Dance, Ring Dance Theater, Jaamil Kosoko and Nora Gibson Performance Group. In 2010 Michael became a member of NEXUS Foundation as their resident sound artist. As a film composer he has written music for short films by Derek Moench, Scott Johnston (Brother's Quay Interview) and J Makary (featured at the Philagrafika 2010 festival).

You can find examples of his music and other projects at his website.