[sdiy] Proud parent of a synthesizer

[Jim Patchell]

    Congrats....hopefully, this will make you more busy than you can imagine...
;^)  This is the best type of free advertising money can buy.

    This is where I hope to be...someday.

    -Jim

Grant Richter wrote:

> >From this month's (July 2002) Mix magazine
>
> Blair Jackson interviews Skip Lievsay about sound design in Men In Black II
>
> One of his recent favorites is a very retro sounding analog synth that is "a
> new iteration of what is essentially a Buchla module from a company called
> Wiard - this guy from Milwaukee named Grant Richter makes them in his house.
>
> They're very modular, old fashioned patchboard-type analog synths. They use
> control voltage instead of MIDI; it's ancient technology - it feels like
> Forbidden Planet all over again. In [Men in Black II] there is a sense that
> some of the supposedly futuristic technology has been around for quite a
> while, and these sounds help to get that across to the audience. It also
> adds a little humor, we hope, which is definitely a part of these films."
>
> I hope you will all forgive the bragging post.
>
> As a demonstration of the power of the Internet, it IS unique. A synth nut
> in Milwaukee discovers a module that makes alien bug noises. The lone single
> person on the planet who actually has a practical application for such a
> device is able to find it. Amazing...
>
> Also interesting to note that any painting after 1900 is considered "modern"
> art. While brand new analog designs are considered "ancient". Just part of
> our cultural schizophrenia, I guess.