From: Frank Vanaman
>>‘evening--
Well, it’s like the guy on AH who posted a couple years ago
that he’d done a re-creation of part of Tomita’s “Firebird”
– I sent him an email thanking him for the posting and complimenting him
on his effort, and he wrote back with something like “You’re the
only person that commented on it”. Figures…and says a lot about the
average AH’er. I still read the list anyways…sometimes I don’t
know why exactly!<<
'morning--- Frank,
I see Andrew commented about that, but way back then he emailed me personally with a link to his Firebird re-creation, and I complimented him on it as being one of the most impressive things I've heard someone do on a modular on these lists. Every once in a while when I run across it on my hard drive I'll play it, and it's so close to sounding like Tomita, like I told him, if I were walking through a room with it playing in the background, I might have thought it was Tomita's actual recording. But that also shows the problem with the level of most people on these lists; you put something of quality and skill in front of them it's like putting calculus in front of a monkey. They have no concept of musicianship, skill, effort, or even who the hell Tomita is. It's that whole destroyers of culture thing I mentioned earlier. The death of synthesis and electronic music.
BTW Frank, speaking of something impressive, the guy's Orchestral performance on a Yamaha Stagea organ at the link below is probably the most impressive I've seen to date.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1kxwTHfOYM-Elhardt