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[jhaible at debitel.net]

> >What about cold analogue gear?
> 
> I've *NEVER* heard anyone say anything analogue was 'cold', if you know of
> such an exmaple PLEASE let me know, so next time this debate starts I can
> fire it back...


He, he, discussions about warm and cold can get quite furious - no wonder
with such an inherently subjective matter as how a piece of art is perceived
and described by the listener. (;->)

But seriously: _Of_course_ analogue sounds can be cold - it would be sad
if that range of emotions would not be possible to evoke with an analogue
synthesizer. For example, Tangerine Dream's "Phaedra" and "Rubicon" are often
praised for their "glacial beauty", and Klaus Schulze's "Crystal Lake"
also evokes a feeling of (wonderful) coldness in me. (No wonder - it's
subtitled "Eine elektronische Winterlandschaft" - an electronic Winter 
landscape.)

Synthesizer music initially had to overcome the biased opinion
to generally sound "cold", compared to traditional instruments. 

JH.

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