SergeModular

Message: 5
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:53:40 -0500
From: John Papiewski <johnp299792@...>
Subject: Serge discography?

I've been in the process of piecing together a discography of people who
used the Serge, need help. Any info, pointers, hints as always appreciated.

Frank Zappa apparently had one. Does anybody know the recording(s)?
I have some names here of people &groups, but again would like to know
where they used the Serge.
Vince Clarke
Roger Powell
Moby
Skinny Puppy
Michael Stearns
Kevin Braheny - Galaxies? The Way Home?
TONTO - Stevie Wonder - Who else used/uses TONTO?

Thanks

John P.

Arthur Brown had a couple of albums in the early 80's that used a Serge programmed by a guy named Scott Morgan. Todd Rundgren used to process his guitar through some early Serge Modules as well ( I beleive before Roger Powell had his 7 panel system). The producer of Soft cell who lives in New York, Mike Thorn has a system attached to the wall of his studio...

"The Serge modular analogue synthesizer currently installed in the wall of the studio provides Mike with what he considers the best sounds in the room: "It takes an awful lot of patience patching together those oscillators and then modulating them with the original analogue oscillators, but it gives an extraordinary and very distinctive sound. Also with an analogue synthesizer you get back into the domain of random sounds, which passes by in digital. You head off with a certain sound in mind, but find something totally different, but it's always interesting. You can never revive those sounds, when you go back to your settings they always sound different even if you've carefully notated them, so I always record both the sounds and the related performance. I'm often twiddling knobs while the thing's going down."

Article found here with photos...

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jul00/articles/mikethorne.htm?session=4a952d27e9e491c4dc933b4dcc355bc6

Regards,

Andrew S.