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The Maestro of his Machine
March 18, 2022
Organ Virtuoso Cameron Carpenter to Debut the Rodgers Infinity 3-Manual Organ
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By Renee Cooper, Santa Barbara Symphony
IPE ORGANS ARE EXPENSIVE… really, really expensive, as in millions of dollars expensive. So when a venue like The Granada Theatre lacks a resident pipe organ, what’s an artist to do? Rent a digital one, of course. But, when the artist playing that instrument is international organ superstar Cameron Carpenter, not just any organ will do.
According to Nelson Dodge, the organ provider and leading distributor of the Rodgers organ brand, what makes this particular organ so special is all of its firsts. It’s the first of this make and model to come off the assembly line. It’s the first time this organ will ever be heard. It’s the first time Carpenter and The Symphony will globally debut this organ (even before it’s publicly introduced). And, it’s the first time this unrivaled software is being put through its paces on a non-custom organ. “This is the most excited I’ve been about an organ in my professional career,” Dodge enthusiastically noted. The Rodgers Infinity brings an expanded data set combined with enormous processing power and polyphony (hundreds of notes played simultaneously) to recreate the most authentic and massive pipe organ sound achievable by an electronic organ. So how does it work and what can the audience at Sonic Boom expect? The organ console is the command center. Here is where Carpenter sits and plays, while functioning much like a maestro himself. He manipulates the controls that signal to the
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Carpenter requires a large organ with enough resources to produce the equivalent sound of a large (expensive) pipe organ to do justice to his talent and the repertoire he’s playing. And that’s just what the Santa Barbara audience will experience when they hear Carpenter debut the Rodgers Infinity 3-Manual Organ at Sonic Boom with The Santa Barbara Symphony on March 19th and 20th.
Cameron Carpenter and the Rogers Infinity 3-Manual Organ
computer to turn notes on and off, using sampling data from actual pipe recordings, and translates those sounds into an audio stream that travels through amplifiers and broadcasts through a tower of 28 speakers, which will be located at the back of the Granada stage. This sound system has been custom designed to resonate up and over the heads of the orchestra musicians and out into the auditorium. For information and tickets to Sonic Boom, visit www.TheSymphony.org
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