The book I mentioned...

[Michael Wilson]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Costello <costello at seanet.com>
To: Andrew Schrock <aschrock at cs.brandeis.edu>
Cc: DIY <synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl>
Date: Tuesday, December 22, 1998 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: The book I mentioned...


>Andrew Schrock wrote:
>>
>> One book that I'm rather surprised isn't mentioned more is Joel Chadabe's
>> "Electronic Sound". It gives a very good perspective of both electronic
>> music (from tape music to the 1990's) as well as a good overview of
>> synthesizers. True, it doesn't have the flashy graphics of Mark Vails
>> "Vintage Synthesizers", but it simply has a lot more useful information.
>> It also has great interviews and accounts from people who were in the
>> field. Perhaps it's not specifically for synth designers, but I think
it's
>> a book everybody should read.
>
>Definitely a nice book.  Not all that great for the analog stuff,
>unfortuately (although there is quite a bit on Moog, as Chadabe worked
>closely with Moog in the late 1960's).  Plenty of good digital music
>info (Max Mathews, IRCAM, CCRMA, all the good stuff).  No real in-depth
>discussion of Serge Tcherepnin's work in the 1970's, even though Ivan
>Tcherepnin is pictured.
>
>Sean Costello