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The Brian Lehrer Show

Get to Know: Synth Library

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Politics, News, News Commentary, Wnyc, Radio, Npr, Arts, New, Lerer, Media, Bryan, Nyc, Daily News, York, Public

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Heidi Sabertooth, co-founder of Synth Library NYC, talks about electronic music and the library which provides access to a wide array of synthesizers and creates a diverse community around it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

No, that's not the Brian Laird Show theme.

0:11.5

It's a little electronic or synth music.

0:14.4

As now we conclude our Pledge Drive mini-series on some of the lesser-known music worlds of New York City, not those top of the charts,

0:21.9

types of music, but some of the music scenes and genres that could maybe only be found in a city

0:27.2

like ours that's such a magnet for artists of all types. We've been hearing about some of these

0:32.0

niche music communities and how you can get involved as an artist or listener and how they make it work

0:38.1

in this expensive city when you're not making pop charts kind of art.

0:42.6

Our guests for today to wrap it up is Heidi Sabretooth, a New York City-based singer,

0:47.5

multi-instrumentalist, DJ producer and co-founder of Synth Library, New York, an organization

0:53.7

dedicated to giving what they call equal access

0:56.7

to the means of production.

0:58.8

Heidi, welcome to the Brian Ler Show.

1:01.4

Oh, what an honor to be on your show.

1:03.1

Thank you so much.

1:04.4

And an honor to have you.

1:05.5

And I'll say electronic music is such a broad term.

1:07.9

It can be synth versions of Bach, like that old hit album from the 1960s.

1:14.0

It can be EDM electronic dance music of recent years. It can be the evolution of keyboards from

1:21.7

regular pianos to the electronic keyboards that can sound like any instrument. It can be more heady, experimental music.

1:29.3

What's your synth library about?

1:31.3

Well, I'm glad you mentioned that, you know, synths are really everywhere and since

1:36.3

is sort of the keyword term that we use, but our library is really one where we focus on everything

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