Allen Ravenstine

Allen Ravenstine is an American synthesist, best known as the electronics player of Pere Ubu from the mid 1970s to the end of the 1980s. Working mainly with EML synthesizers, he added abstract noise, oscillator tones and textures to the band's rock songs, on records such as Dub Housing. Allen Ravenstine first played with Pere Ubu in 1975 on 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, then joined full time, replacing keyboardist Dave Taylor, and stayed until the album Cloudland (1989).