[sdiy] Much Ado About Almost Nothing: Man's Encounter with the Electron

[Scott Nordlund]

For anyone who wants the article, I've uploaded it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ldn8rs9bpgn0h6e

Obviously you'll want to save it because this isn't a hosting service.

Or you can get the whole thesis here:

http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/bitstream/1892/8931/1/b37359617.pdf

It's a bit of a read and much of it just digests other sources, but it 
has some interviews with Roland engineers and some stuff from firm 
histories that really available in English.

> I highly recommend this article:
>
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2006.00143.x/abstract
>
> It's an excerpt from a PhD thesis in geography (improbably enough),
> but it focuses on the rise of the Japanese synth industry.
>
> The rest of the thesis has info on Yamaha, Roland, Korg, Kawai and Casio,
> but I think this is the most interesting part, with the most firsthand
> accounts and previously unknown information.  It interviews Dave Smith
> and Ralph Deutsch; in particular I was interested in the Ralph Deutsch
> stuff since he's a relative unknown, but also one of the most important
> figures in the electronic music field.  He was responsible for the Allen
> Digital Computer Organ and eventually Kawai K5, did a great deal of
> digital synthesis research for both Yamaha and Kawai, and held something
> like 140 patents.  Interestingly, he's also the cousin of Herb Deutsch.
>
> I got the whole article through some free registration thing; it's
> kind of a pain.  But I have it saved as an html file and can pass it
> along if anyone wants.