Our Daddio is in real life Gene Maruszewski, a university educated electronic musician operating out of Northern California.
He’s been dabbling in electronic music since 1973 and continues to this day. His compositions cover the broad spectrum from techno to ambient and some genres that have yet to find a name.
His most common tools are his 2 massive modular synthesizers trendy groove boxes, pedals, and effects.
“ I got bit by the electronic music bug tripping to Pink Floyd music back in 1969 and resolved to one day learn how to make that kind of spacey music. A few years later the University I attended started an electronic music class.
So I enrolled, and I got my hands on a Moog, the series 3 with a sequencer complement, an EMS synthi, a pair of Revox stereo tape recorders and a 4 track TEAC.
I started to listen to people like Pierre Schaefer, Pierre Henry, Walter Carlos, Morton Subotnick and the like. I continued my music education after my move to California at the College of Marin, enrolled in their fine music department.
At first, music was a more of a hobby while I pursued my career in bicycles and I resolved to return to my electronic music endeavors upon retirement which fortunately came early.
By the turn of the century I was heavily involved in making electronic music, having purchased my first modular synth, a Doepfer a100 system, and have been at it ever since.
I work largely with a modular but also some pedals and outboard devices; effects, EQ’s, etc., and I also have a couple of the trendy boxes like an MPCx, an Octatrack, and a Keystep Pro.” ~gm