Dickson & Familiar and TotoRobyn : Live at ACM, 18 October | Event in Medford | AllEvents

Dickson & Familiar and TotoRobyn : Live at ACM

Arts Collaborative Medford

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Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

2 hours

162 Mystic Ave, 02155

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Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm (EDT)

162 Mystic Ave, 02155

162 Mystic Ave, Medford, MA 02155-4652, United States

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Dickson & Familiar and TotoRobyn : Live at ACM
$25 Tickets | $25 Tickets avaialble at door
Open to Public | Part of ACM’s Live Concert Series

Medford musicians Glenn Dickson (performing with Bob Familiar and Grant Smith) and Robyn Alman, a.k.a. TotoRobyn, present an evening of orchestral ambient and electronic music.

Glenn Dickson, cutting edge klezmer clarinetist, and Bob Familiar, electronic musician with a history in classic Boston rock bands, have combined to create a lush orchestral sound through layering of the clarinet and synths, yet is human and intimate in its presence.

Glenn has adopted looping techniques and digital manipulations of his acoustic clarinet sound, while Bob utilizes the Osmose keyboard, which extends the intuitive expressiveness of the traditional synthesizer through multi-dimensional sensing for every key, with drifting loop stations, and state of the art sound processors.

Their "compositional ambient" style encompasses soaring melodies, awesome textural layerings and detailed interplay between the instruments. They borrow from the best of the ambient world with a classical sensitivity and melodic development that sets them apart from much ambient and electronic music. Their first album, "All the Light of Our Sphere" dropped in May, 2025, and their second, the live album "0808" is due out this fall. All the Light of Our Sphere | Dickson & Familiar See also: https://glenndicksonmusic.com/ and Music | Bob Familiar

Medford resident Robyn Alman, a.k.a TotoRobyn, loves the exploration of electronic music using a mix of hardware and modular synths. She primarily composes ambient, downtempo, and dance music, but is always happy to explore various music genres as the mood strikes her. TotoRobyn's recent album, Divergent Crossroads, dives into an electronic journey that spans various genres and moods of modular exploration. Music | TotoRobyn

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“ both experimental and drop-dead gorgeous — two characteristics that all-too-rarely coincide.” - Rick Anderson on Dickson & Familiar — CD Hotlist

“ ...what Glenn Dickson and his accomplice Bob Familiar offer isn’t just music in any conventional sense. It’s closer to poetry, cerebral, unhurried, insistent. A soundscape to be read, not simply heard.” - Thierry De Clemensat — Paris Move


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Dickson & Familiar and TotoRobyn : Live at ACM, 18 October | Event in Medford | AllEvents
Dickson & Familiar and TotoRobyn : Live at ACM
Sat, 18 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm