Halcyon Modular is a Portland, Oregon based synthesizer company,
founded by Justin Patrizi and Tom Moxon.

We partnered together on Halcyon Modular in order to focus on creating performance synthesizer modules with great sound and high quality components.

Justin teaches Modular Audio, Video and Sound Design workshops, and has been performing using modular audio gear for many years. Justin has recorded most of the demo tracks for our new synthesizer modules.

Tom built his first patch-able, modular synthesizer in 1975,  a PAIA transistor based kit, while still attending high school in New York. At the Center for Media Studios Buffalo in the late 1970’s, he worked with Woody and Steina Vasulka on the “Digital Image Articulator” (an early digital video synthesizer/processor); and also with Hollis Frampton on digital audio programs using early S-100 based micro-computers.

After getting his degree in Electronic Arts, Tom worked with Dave Rossum at Emu Systems, on the team that brought you some of the very first sampling Keyboards and Drum machines, like the Emulator II Sampling keyboard, and the Drumulator digital drum machine. These synthesizers were designed before MIDI was finalized, and had to be retrofitted later to support MIDI.

Tom has designed audio and video systems for Silicon Graphics (used on Star Wars, Jurassic Park, The Matrix) Cray Research, and others. Tom has been producing high-end, digital video and audio products for over thirty years.