[sdiy] It's the Dewanatron (?!?!)

[John Neilson]

I don't think the Dewanatron is meant to be successful, other than
for the users of the only one in existence.  The copy accompanying
the pictures is pretty clearly a goof.

I saw this thing in action last year, and it was a flashback to my
first experiences with synths: seeing a bunch of strange looking 
boxes on picnic tables, hearing a lot of sci-fi sounding bleeps and
bloops, and watching the operators (Brian Dewan and his brother Leon) 
occasionally tracing wires between modules by hand and wiggling 
alligator clips with embarassed looks on their faces.

> 
> "The Switchyard receives up to eight ungoverned signals and by means of its
> octolinear subtractive action restricts their flow, arbitrating and
> combining them to yield restrained and transparent music."
> 
> If it is true, that the best thing a show business person can have is a good
> line of bullsh#t. Then the Dewanatron should be very successful...
> 
> > From: Don Tillman <don at till.com>
> > Date: 22 Apr 2005 13:06:36 -0700
> > To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> > Subject: [sdiy] It's the Dewanatron (?!?!)
> > 
> > 
> > I found this on the MusicThing blog:
> > 
> > http://www.dewanatron.com
> > 
> > Dewanatron: a family of instruments which hazard unpredictable
> > behaviors and self playing tendencies. They make all previous and
> > future instruments obsolete.
> > 
> > Wow.
> > 
> > And the MusicThing blog is here:
> > http://musicthing.blogspot.com
> > 
> > -- Don
> > 
> > -- 
> > Don Tillman
> > Palo Alto, California
> > don at till.com
> > http://www.till.com
> 

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