http://cosmicvariance.com/2005/08/24/sound-synthesis-master-dies/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:43:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://cosmicvariance.com/2005/08/24/sound-synthesis-master-dies/#comment-4819 I’m Secretly A Huge Bush Fan | Cosmic Variance Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:23:55 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=176#comment-4819 [...] I was simply in love with Kate Bush and her music as a teenager. It was not a sex thing (inasmuch as anything can be far removed from sex as a teenage boy); instead I was in love with just how different her music was while still remaining both interesting, tuneful, and beautiful. (And often very funny.) You see, I loved listening to things other than the standard 80’s UK pop everyone else was into at school, and I went to great lengths in pursuit of this, and the results were not always interesting and enjoyable at the same time (you may recall me writing about being into obscure German electronic music as a teenager). But Kate Bush managed to be different and all of those other things I said above at the same time. She was clearly a genius, at least to my mind back then, producing all sorts of tremendous musical ideas and sounds. [...] [...] I was simply in love with Kate Bush and her music as a teenager. It was not a sex thing (inasmuch as anything can be far removed from sex as a teenage boy); instead I was in love with just how different her music was while still remaining both interesting, tuneful, and beautiful. (And often very funny.) You see, I loved listening to things other than the standard 80’s UK pop everyone else was into at school, and I went to great lengths in pursuit of this, and the results were not always interesting and enjoyable at the same time (you may recall me writing about being into obscure German electronic music as a teenager). But Kate Bush managed to be different and all of those other things I said above at the same time. She was clearly a genius, at least to my mind back then, producing all sorts of tremendous musical ideas and sounds. [...]

]]> http://cosmicvariance.com/2005/08/24/sound-synthesis-master-dies/#comment-1883 robert Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:06:33 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=176#comment-1883 It is quite appropriate that Robet Moog is celebrated here, as he took a degree in physics at Columbia University. Beyond that, he rocked, as only a nerd can, like a mother. Ultimately, his synthesiser let every child put to the piano, enslaved to arpeggii and five finger futility, get up and shake his/her stuff like Jimi Hendrix. And the soundtack to clockwork orange - with alex getting down with the record buying public - exceptional. Then, of course, there was emerson, lake and palmer. Swings and roundabouts. It is quite appropriate that Robet Moog is celebrated here, as he took a degree in physics at Columbia University. Beyond that, he rocked, as only a nerd can, like a mother. Ultimately, his synthesiser let every child put to the piano, enslaved to arpeggii and five finger futility, get up and shake his/her stuff like Jimi Hendrix. And the soundtack to clockwork orange - with alex getting down with the record buying public - exceptional. Then, of course, there was emerson, lake and palmer. Swings and roundabouts.

]]> http://cosmicvariance.com/2005/08/24/sound-synthesis-master-dies/#comment-1879 A Hot Chick called Lakshmi » Blog Archive » Death of the Moog-Meister Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:53:03 +0000 http://cosmicvariance.com/?p=176#comment-1879 [...] This may mean very little to those who’ve never sat in a studio and watched a friend put together a piece of electronica, but the man behind the Moog has died. Cosmic Variance does some explaining, but basically this guy produced the greatest synthesiser of all time. It’s a remarkably strange piece of kit, but looks just like a rather old-fashioned electric piano. I’ll try and nab a pick for y’all. [...] [...] This may mean very little to those who’ve never sat in a studio and watched a friend put together a piece of electronica, but the man behind the Moog has died. Cosmic Variance does some explaining, but basically this guy produced the greatest synthesiser of all time. It’s a remarkably strange piece of kit, but looks just like a rather old-fashioned electric piano. I’ll try and nab a pick for y’all. [...]

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