Ajay Khanna

St. Louis, Missouri area synthesist and improvisor. He plays with Chris Smentkowski in Brain Transplant, has performed live with Eric Hall and Dave Stone, and now has recently begun releasing brief transmissions via Bandcamp. His rig is charmingly simple and produces a gritty, often abrasive range of sound: Khanna favors a few recent synthesizers made by Korg -- the Monotron and the Volca Keys. It would take too much synth-nerdery to dig into the specifics, but both pieces are relatively inexpensive, pocket-size, and employ analog technology that references some of the more celebrated digital instruments of the last 50 years. Each of the three releases Khanna has posted is different, but all show a mind busy at work coaxing noise out of consumer electronics.