Marie-Ann Hedonia is a Baltimore, Maryland-based synthesist and co-owner and operator of the label Paul and Marie’s Country Kitchen with her husband, Paul M’Olive.
Born and raised in Charm City, Hedonia’s exposure to the keyboard began with piano lessons in the fourth grade. “I remember trying to change the sound of my digital upright piano as a kid,” she later recalled to the site Atmospheres and Experiments. “I would pitch up the sound to bend the notes or try to alter the sound in some way. What I didn’t know, though, was that I was playing the wrong instrument for that application; what I really needed was a synth.”
Thereby having, in her words, “broken the seal,” Hedonia soon made a beeline for a used microKORG at a local music shop. As her zest to make music grew, sequencing came next, via Native Instruments’ Maschine software.
Hedonia’s stable of hardware swelled, too, with the Moog Sub Phatty and Prophet ‘08. “Then, when we moved into our house,” she says of herself and M’Olive, “we just kept growing and growing and growing with stuff that we had.” Which led to a breakthrough, when Hedonia began experimenting with modular synthesis — glomming onto it far more than guitar enthusiast M’Olive.
“You take off the outer layer, and you get to rebuild the skeleton of the sound. And it’s up to you. There are no presets. There are no built-in sequences. You have to make it all,” Hedonia explained to JazzTimes. “That’s when I started to get interested in actually making music.” ... Hedonia’ will release her latest offering, Eclipse, later in 2025 via Paul and Marie’s Country Kitchen. Her most fleshed-out and rangey work to date, the album features collaborations with vocalists Delia Liederschuh, Casey Desmond (featured on the first season of The Voice),, and Black Kite’s Vicki Lynn Tippit.
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