Sv: [sdiy] Proud parent of a synthesizer

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Hi Grant!

> >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...

Congratulation! Now you gave me another reason to go and see it. They just released it back home the other day, but now you gave me a more odd reason to see it. What of your stuff is "featured" in it?

Don't let it get to your head... the wrong way! Be proud, move along and make some more good stuff!

> 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.

Well, there is the time-frame of course. Electronical instruments as such came in bigger spread in the 30thies I guess (Hammond home-organs for instace) so that makes it about 70 years old. If you match that against say 3000 years of development of "fine art" from the Greeks and the Romans, a "modern" synth being something made the last 2 years isn't very odd, now is it?

Regardless of which, the world is allways crazy like hell, but you have yeat to discover just how crazy it was to discover where it has gone. It can be decades before you get to learn the deeper truths and missunderstandings of crazyness in relation to when you could have really had use for the knowledge.

Cheers,
Magnus

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