 His self-assembled synthesizer is built to follow the volume of his saxophone and a set of pedals he plays with his feet.In June 2015, Parzen-Johnson released his second solo album featuring saxophone & his custom synthesizer, and spent two months touring 34 US cities in support of the record.In an exercise to connect with people, and create empathy in all of the cities he visited, Parzen-Johnson collected three reasons to live in each city, and in November 2015 he released them as a paperback book called "Three Reasons to Live Here".