[sdiy] Taking a Step towards - - --((FUTURE-PREDICTIONS))-- - -

[Tim Parkhurst]

> But I have another one : why should the discussion always
> focus on analogue versus digital ?
> 
> What about hybrid systems ?
> I mean : not only digital programing & control of modulars,
> but REAL (and innovative) hybrid systems :

Agreed! Look at the Monowave and the Evolver. Also, I still think putting a
micro-based expo converter on an analog VCO core would be a great solution
to the many and varied temp/drift related problems. You can still use the
micro-based portion to also drive a wavetable sort of thing, but you also
have the analog core where you can play with all sorts of fun, simple
waveshaper circuits.


> I might get a load of (more or less) shocked answers to the
> following, but anyway, here we go :
> After reading (parts of) the recent "essential
> listening" thread, I must confessed that I've been rather
> depressed by the kind of music you guys listen to (and
> recommend), and mostly by the (almost complete) lack of
----
> Honnestly I'm not sure that the ideas for new electronic
> instruments will arise while listening to TD's "Ricochet"...

Agreed/NOT! First off, most electronic music these days is 'boom, boom,
boom' (as you said) - and I like that for short periods - but I haven't
heard anything in a long time that I like as much as "Sequencer" or Tomita's
"Planets". We're just going off our likes and dislikes. Secondly, just
because the music we're recommending is old, that doesn't mean it's not good
or valid music. People are still inspired today by music written hundreds of
years ago and performed on strings, wood and skins! You say 'embrace the
future' and I agree, but don't be in such a rush to embrace the future that
you forget the wisdom and lessons of the past. Good music is good music.
That we still listen to things like "Ricochet" should be a testament to it's
strengths, rather than an indictment of our "lack of musical thinking."
Newer is not necessarily better, and older is not necessarily worse.

Finally, two more recommended listening suggestions:
1) Freight Elevator Quartet - "File Under Futurism" 
A wonderful combination of samples, synths, cellos, spoken, etc. A bit
"dance/trance" but different enough to inspire.

2) Our own Peter Grenader - "Fluxus" and "Electrolux"
Another example of the great talent on this list. Fluxus is smooth and
haunting, Electrolux is jarring and slightly scary in spots (in a good way).
Great stuff
http://www.buzzclick-music.com/music.html

Okay, I'll shut up now. :-)


Tim (STILL listening to ELP's "Welcome Back My Friends") Servo




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