“From the bottom of my heart I wish to extend a heartfelt thank you to all of the performers, students, faculty, vendors, staff, and organizers of Electrowave.”

The Inaugural Electrowave Rocky Mountain Electronic Music Festival was successful beyond my imagination in no small part thanks to the members of the Colorado Modular Synth Society (CMSS). Everyone who performed knocked it out of the park and I was very proud of how CMSS was presented at the festival. 

It’s been a dream of mine to host an electronic music festival in Colorado Springs and when I dropped the idea on Professor Jon Forshee of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) he agreed that it would be awesome. Once we got approval we ran with the idea and it just kept growing with all of the support from the university faculty and students, and with the local and national members of CMSS.

I did not believe we were going to get Sarah Belle Reid as our guest artist. She was the first person I thought of to feature at the festival as she seemed to perfectly fit the intersection between research and the electronic music community. I’m thankful that Glen Whitehead (UCCS Visual and Performing Arts department chair) is a fan of Sarah’s and was able to secure the funding to bring her out. Sarah’s performance at the Saturday night concert was mind blowing.

I’m grateful that Metamyther made the trek out here from New York. His performance at the festival and at the after party were awesome, and I hear his lecture (which I sadly missed) blew the attendee’s minds with what was possible in Ableton.

Thank you to Nireus for being the festival closing act. I selfishly wanted you to come out to perform as I wanted to see you live and share you with our local community. You were amazing, and I had tears of joy in my eyes by the end of the performance.

Thank you to Chris and Lucas for your massive support with the audio. You both took the festival to the next level and especially Chris for attending to the front of the house. Your efforts made the festival run smoothly.

Thank you to Tyler for all of the tireless and unending design work which elevated our branding and social media outreach.

Thank you to David for the guidance, mentorship, and support without which this festival would have been a lesser affair.

Thank you to Jon Forshee without whom this festival would never have happened. Your partnership, never ending support, and hard work made the festival more awesome than I could have imagined.

And finally thank you to all of the members who came out to perform and those that came out just to support. This is an awesome community, and I know the next festival will be even greater because of you.

– Mike Berry