Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Mellotron Pioneers
From: kenmerb@...
Date: 2003-08-15
In a message dated 8/15/2003 3:41:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ken@... writes:
Why do some artists ∗insist∗ on using them? Probably because they are
inspired by what goes on inside that box, despite--or because of--the
idiosyncrasies.
I agree. In fact, the best description I've heard recently about one of the mellotron's idiosyncrasies comes from, of all places, the Kurzweil list. Here, one of the members describes sampling the human voice on a Kurzweil sampler, and compares it to a mellotron:
"It's like a collage of disjunct sounds where each note doesn't know where it came from or where it's going to. Makes me think of the mellotron."
I never really thought to put it in those terms, but I think he nailed it.
Ken M.
MKII #247 (my notes rarely know if they're coming or going, and I like it that way).