Inventor of the Synthesizer dies

Automatic Washer - The world's coolest Washing Machines, Dryers and Dishwashers

Help Support :

I heard the news today

Remeber those Tomita records, Switched on Bach etc.. done on the synthesizer.. great memories of when that came out.
Do you have a Hammond? I wouldn't mind getting a decent TOL spinet or else a Gulbransen Theatrum. Gulbransen always to me anyways had the most lifelike piano sound for a pre digital organ, too expensive back then for me to afford.
 
Awww

How heartbreaking!

I was always and still am a fan of vintage sythesizers.

All those spacey sounds from the 50s through the 70s and into the 80s with the digtal synths.

The song "Runaway" by Del Shannon has a solo with a prototype synth developed by Jean Jacques Perrey which I forget the name of it, but it was the forerunner to Moog's synth.

Also Raymond Scott came up with his own synths and did some STRANGE stuff back in the 50s
 
How Sad.

Im a huge fan of 80's new wave and synthezier records, the ultimate, IMHO, Dare by the Human League.

I pesterd my parents to by me a $300 keyboard and it amusedme for hours, as I planned my recording career. Shame I never learned to play it properly, my parents wanted me to learn "practical" things...

Heres a shot of my favourite group in action!
 
Sorry to hear about MOOG. Could disco have been possible without him? Like you, cybrvanr, I have always had a thing for Hammond organs. How could you not like a musical instrument you have to "start" like a car.
 
Great Taste DADoES!

I like Mike Oldfield too. But I just love perfect three minute pop songs. and the new wave era seemed to have that down to an art, quirky and interesting with out being pompous. Ahh Blondie... and others!

If you like Dare you have to listen to Secrets! Its the perfect electronic album and kind of like the Human League saying, listen here kids, we were doing this stuff for ages. Its like hard core techno for adults, and the three voices bounce off each other wonderfully! The best thing about this album, is you can change your equilizer settings and it sounds different all over again. You can never get bored with it!

 
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Mike oldfeild-Yes I remember-and his "Tubular Bells" peice-Remember this being played when the "Exorcists" was popular in the 70'sThe radio station I worked in played this peice at least twice an hour.Still liked it.Liked putting my hand or foot on the AM transmitter cabinetwhile that record was played-the mod transformer and reactor made the cabinet vibrate when the pedal notes were played!
 
In elementary school

we finally had one, ONE assembly that was just amazing. We were going to see a musician. We took a bus to the senior high school a few miles away.

There was a guy on stage, surrounded by keyboards and boxes. There looked like miles of cable everywhere. It (had to be) was an early MOOG (which I always thought was pronounced mooooo g like moo in a cow, not like Mogue). It sounded like an orchestra. I was blown away. Once again, seeing something historical at its earlier beginnings.

"Switched on Bach" came out a year or two after that, and I played it alot. Elitist snobs stated what a horrible album that was, but I liked it!

Years later my friend got a monophonic Roland keyboard. (played only one key at a time). In the early 80s my parents got me a Yamaha CS-01, which I am stunned to find out is quite the collectors item now. Another friend I had had a huge Oberheim poly synth, but hated it later because it was pre-MIDI. Poor guy...feel so sorry for him--not.

I grew up hearing organ music, so keyboards always interested me. My dad is a pipe organ aficionado, and built a Schober Theater Organ from a kit. Very cool.

I am sad to hear this gentleman pass. Very inventive.
 
Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel Jarre put on a laser light show in downtown Houston in summer of 1986 as part of Houston International Festival (IFest) for that year. I had no idea it was happening at the time or I would have made an effort to attend. I ran across a video of it at the local county library years ago (which has [or had at that time] a tape exchange program with the Houston library system). I was already familiar with his music, and his name on the tape caught my eye.

VERY entertaining. The program was called "Rendezvous Houston." Astronaut Ron McNair was to play the saxophone part in the piece Last Rendezvous, from the space shuttle but he was lost in the tragic Challenger accident. Kirk Whalum took the part during the performance.

Jean-Michel Jarre is son of Maurice Jarre, who has composed many movie scores.

<blockquote>Timeline 1986
"Rendezvous Houston," one of Houston's biggest events ever staged, was produced as the centerpiece of the Festival. Lasers and fireworks danced above and around the downtown skyscrapers as French composer Jean Michel-Jarre played his original compositions. The 1.3 million people in attendance for this part of the Texas Sesquicentennial celebration were astonished and most still remember the event to this day.</blockquote>
 
Tom not sure I understand....

Quote:

"Speaking of Switched On Bach, give yourself a good jolt if you search for it and are expecting Walter Carlos as the artist."

I have the album in front of me and it does say Walter Carlos is preforming...or are you referring to the fact that it's freaking WENDY CARLOS now!!!!
 
Wow, quite an effective transition!
<center>
Carlos04.jpg

Walter Carlos</center>
 

Latest posts

Back
Top