Synthesist Craig Padilla shared this live space music performance, featuring the sound of the ARP Solina String Ensemble.
The Solina is a classic string synthesizer, originally introduced 1974, but based on the string section of the Eminent 310 from 1972. The Eminent 310 is the string sound of Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene.
This performance is part of Padilla’s 2024 space music album Solina. The album was improvised live using an ARP String-Ensemble SE-IV synth, with Source Audio Lunar and Collider effects pedals, running through a Solid State Logic BiG SiX mixer, with an Elogoxa ElotTronix XL delay / echo plug-in.
Since the Padilla’s album uses the ARP Solina as its sole sound source, the album is an excellent showcase for the synthesizer.
Solina is available via Bandcamp. You can preview the album below:
Its time-stamped with its own period, not all that long before samplers. I still like it as part of the “Berlin” sound of T-Dream, Ash Ra, Steve Hillage and others. It was a lot of this under bouncy Moog bass and burbling 8-16-step sequences. A nice compositional interlude and well-performed, Craig.