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It's Monday, and here's another Live Stream from the Disaster Room. Let's start a controversy! I go first and tell you what I think the best analog polysynth money can buy is (and what y…
Bernie Krause could be considered a musical maverick, being among the first to recognize the possibilities of synthesizers in popular music and film scoring.…
I'm not sure that "inspirer is actually a word, but it fits. I hope you'll agree after viewing this interesting documentary in which Bob Moog talks about his history in electronic music,…
I know I've mentioned this album before, but I just saw that some intrepid soul digitized and uploaded it to YouTube. It (along with Wendy Carlos' original Switched On Bach) was my introductio…
I have, on many occasions, referred to Wendy Carlos as one of my introductions to the world of electronic music and synthesizers through her 1968 album Switched On Bach. It was Wendy who inspired Robert Moog to refine and perfect his Moog synthesizers, with which she recorded the album.…
Several months ago, I wrote a piece outlining four reasons that I no longer wanted to build a modular rig. But, as I write this post today, on the sixth anniversary of the death of Keith Emerson, I’ve had a bit of a change of heart.…
Fran Blanche of Frantone posted this fascinating film by Bernard Wilets, which looks at early electronic music, to her YouTube channel, and I just had to share it. The film features several people who…
[Here,] in a bag of mixed nuts, are four reasons that I've let go of a nearly fifty-year-old dream to own a modular synthesizer.…