[sdiy] My favourite synth artist

[dustin sedlacek]

i have never heard of him , but i really like richa d james 

On 5/30/05, Kenneth Elhardt <elhardt at worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> 
> Jesse Yoder writes:
> >>I am not sure how many people in the analogue synth world are familiar
> with his stuff; I know I have never met anybody who has ever heard of him.
> He is my all-time favourite synth artist.<<
> 
> Nearly everybody who's been invovled with synths since the 70 - 80's is
> plenty familiar with Tomita. He is required listening. Unfortunately
> today, we're dealing with a generation according to the television news 
> who
> don't even know who the Beatles or Rolling Stones were. So it's no wonder
> they don't know who Tomita was. You've got people who won't look backward
> in time no matter what, and that's why we're in the hole we're in now.
> 
> Andrew Sanchez writes:
> >>On the Analog Heaven list, I posted an MP3 I did using my modular and 
> Korg
> Oasys PCI. Given the little response I had (one!), I tried to remain true 
> to
> Tomita's sounds in that I used my modular for all sounds that (I think) he
> used modular gear to create. The other sounds (various string sounds, 
> choir
> mostly) are from my Korg Oasys.<<
> 
> I of course commented on it the first time you sent me the link. It's one
> of the best things I've heard posted. Had Konkuro still been around I 
> would
> have sent him the link as I'm sure he would have liked it too.
> 
> Roman writes:
> >>I didn't realise Tomita was so little known. Or maybe I'm a freak since
> he's one of my favourites. I listen to him since childhood. His works may
> apprear simple to some, but have climate never found elsewhere. I only 
> have
> 4 or 5 CDs and maybe I'll get more sometime.<<
> 
> Works appear simple? Quite the opposite for his big orchestral synth
> transcriptions.
> 
> 
> -Elhardt
> 
> 


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Dustin
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