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TOGOLOT

The paintings and cds of Togolot
music represented on this site are available for purchase.
Anyone interested can contact Eugene V. Solot at mfevs@winco.net, or by
phone 309-776-3842

Background Music

"Till There Was You", Toga Maguire
electric piano, John Zorbas Tenor Sax

My training as an artist was at a painter at the
Boston Museum School from 1950 to 1955 and I later went on to Tufts University
to get the credentials to teach. I taught a Bridgewater State College in
Massachusetts for a year before coming to Illinois where I spent the rest
of my teaching career at Western Illinois University until I retired in
1994. I have exhibited my paintings at galleries in Boston, Brisbane Australia,
Chicago, and New York to name just a few of the places where my works were
shown. I have painted in oils, acrylics, water colors and mixed media.
In 1972 I became interested in computer art when my father, a senior scientist,
proposed a joint project where he would program the computer and I would
do the drawings. Result was fifty programs and hundreds of drawings in
pen and ink done on a plotter and very primitive computer which only had
ten thousand bites for the whole operation. My interest in computers and
art continued in 1991 when Laurence Leff of the WIU computer science department
and my self started the first fine arts computer newsgroup on the then
named Unix net. We still are sponsors of this group which features a homepage
that exhibits the art of all comers with the only stipulation that it be
original work of a living artist or if not living an unknown. My other
interests have broadened out into building computers for recording original
music, something that I got into when I met, Toga, Douglas Maquire here
in Colchester Illinois in 1971 when he had just graduated from WIU and
in piano and music theory. At first I just taped his bands but after a
while I wanted to participate, at first on alto sax, then tenor sax, and
finally the musicians we played with decided I was best on keyboards. Toga
was playing with a very talented six piece rock goup called Morning Morning,
whose cd I finally produced twenty five years after the tapes were first
recorded. I have been selling these, mostly to alumni of the period, on
a made to order basis. Since I am not a trained musician the music we make
is a free form that incorperates elements of jazz, blues, classical, and
modern music. I developed an interest in blues after discovering in Illinois
the great Chicago blues artists who were mostly transplants from Mississippi
and other southern blues meccas.Toga through listening to lots of music
with me became interested in and began to play the blues and he is very
good at it from an innovative sense, not from a technical point of view,
although his bass lines keep improving each year. He has written many original
blues songs and also jazz compositions, but one of his strongest areas
is the slow ballad of which he has written some beauties. I have collaborated
on songs writing the lyrics, and then would add the music. On my hompage
I will share with you my visual art work and the music of TOGOLOT , that
is Toga and myself which sometimes includes the playing of John Zorbas,
a sax player who has played with big bands and the established Latin Jazz
pianist DoDo Marmarosa. I will also include the works of Toga and some
of my own works. My visual art will include digitized images of my paintings
which at first will not be of great quality because the camera I got for
the purpose was flawed but when I get a better camera I shall replace these
ones with better quality work. I shall also include my writings including
songs, poetry and prose. I shall attempt to change the content of the page
quite often to reflect my ongoing developement in music and art. I also
am a serious cook but shall not include recipes as I get them from other
sites and my many cookbooks, though I have a few family recipes and ones
that I have developed. I shall also include pictures showing myself and
the people in my life past and present. TOGOLOT Eugene V. Solot
My training as an artist was at a painter at
the Boston Museum School from 1951 to 1954 and I later went on to Tufts
University to get the credentials to teach. I taught a Bridgewater State
College in Massachusetts for a year before coming to Illinois where I spent
the rest of my teaching career at Western Illinois University until I retired
in 1994. I have exhibited my paintings at galleries in Boston, Brisbane
Australia, Chicago, and New York to name just a few of the places where
my works were shown. I have painted in oils, acrylics, water colors and
mixed media. In 1972 I became interested in computer art when my father,
a senior scientist, proposed a joint project where he would program the
computer and I would do the drawings. Result was fifty programs and hundreds
of drawings in pen and ink done on a plotter and very primitive computer
which only had ten thousand bites for the whole operation. My interest
in computers and art continued in 1991 when Laurence Leff of the WIU computer
science department and my self started the first fine arts computer newsgroup
on the then named Unix net. We still are sponsors of this group which features
a homepage that exhibits the art of all comers with the only stipulation
that it be original work of a living artist or if not living an unknown.
My other interests have broadened out into building computers for recording
original music, something that I got into when I met, Toga, Douglas Maquire
here in Colchester Illinois in 1971 when he had just graduated from WIU
and in piano and music theory. At first I just taped his bands but after
a while I wanted to participate, at first on alto sax, then tenor sax,
and finally the musicians we played with decided I was best on keyboards.
Toga was playing with a very talented six piece rock goup called Morning
Morning, whose cd I finally produced twenty five years after the tapes
were first recorded. I have been selling these, mostly to alumni of the
period, on a made to order basis. Since I am not a trained musician the
music we make is a free form that incorperates elements of jazz, blues,
classical, and modern music. I developed an interest in blues after discovering
in Illinois the great Chicago blues artists who were mostly transplants
from Mississippi and other southern blues meccas.Toga through listening
to lots of music with me became interested in and began to play the blues
and he is very good at it from an innovative sense, not from a technical
point of view, although his bass lines keep improving each year. He has
written many original blues songs and also jazz compositions, but one of
his strongest areas is the slow ballad of which he has written some beauties.
I have collaborated on songs writing the lyrics, and then would add the
music. On my hompage I will share with you my visual art work and the music
of TOGOLOT , that is Toga and myself which sometimes includes the playing
of John Zorbas, a sax player who has played with big bands and the established
Latin Jazz pianist DoDo Marmarosa. I will also include the works of Toga
and some of my own works. My visual art will include digitized images of
my paintings which at first will not be of great quality because the camera
I got for the purpose was flawed but when I get a better camera I shall
replace these ones with better quality work. I shall also include my writings
including songs, poetry and prose. I shall attempt to change the content
of the page quite often to reflect my ongoing developement in music and
art. I also am a serious cook but shall not include recipes as I get them
from other sites and my many cookbooks, though I have a few family recipes
and ones that I have developed. I shall also include pictures showing myself
and the people in my life past and present