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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2021-06-25 20:44 [#02609496]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Zinovieff
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ijonspeches
from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2021-06-26 08:20 [#02609505]
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thats a nice piece of history right there. love the mad professor bit :) does anybody know a decent documentary about the first manufacutered synthesizers and their makers?
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steve mcqueen
from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2021-06-30 17:29 [#02609583]
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>>does anybody know a decent documentary about the first >> manufacutered synthesizers and their makers? not humanly possible, they popped up everywhere at once, like sheep jumping over cattle grids.. saw a nice one on ARP on yt the other day
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steve mcqueen
from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2021-06-30 17:31 [#02609584]
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been meaning to watch that Buchla RBMA interview too
anyway right now pour one out for Peter
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dave_g
from United Kingdom on 2021-07-02 22:13 [#02609611]
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https://www.openculture.com/2017/11/what-the-future-sounded -like.html
What the future sounded like is worth watching if not seen. I recall he is quite down on the VCS3 being a silly little toy, but it makes sense when you see a computer controlled sampler in his studio. Helps that he and ex wife were both from old money selling tiaras to buy PDPs that were mega-money used for automating a factory and he had it in his shed piddling around with music.
I strongly suspect he did originate sampling as a technique.
Also messing about with vocoder and computer to do resynthesis, very advanced stuff for the time (and very expensive).
The new sound of music worth a watch, on youtube skip parts 1 and 2 unless want to see tape splicing musique concrete then the good stuff is:
Part 3: Synthi100, VCS3 and vocoder all in use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or8N2v7pR8I Part 4: Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary, polysynthi and tapping away on his PDP mini computer. Also has excellent David Vorhaus bit (with VCS3 in use as well of course)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJHtcWLhrX4
Musically, I much prefer Tristram Cary and never really took to Zinovieff's compositions. Because I am a professional electronic engineer, Cockerell has always been of most interest to me, or rather his electronic designs, but I do wonder if it wasn't for Zinovieff would I have ever heard of him? I'm sure he would have designed some clever circuits, but might have been in radios or TVs instead. Saying that I think without Cockerell's good taste to filter Zinovieff's ideas you get crap like Polysynthi.
Oh I read somewhere that he and David Cockerell walked into Moog factory with their 256 step digital sequencer plugged it in and let it play to much amusement and annoyance of the staff, whom had recently released something like a 16 step analogue sequencer that they previously thought was pretty nifty!
I never met Mr Zinovieff but he seemed like a real gent. RIP
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