Wiardgroup

Hello All,

Hearty congratulations to Olivier Gerber for the full page write up 
of "Traffic in my Soul" on page 32 of the July issue of "Electronic 
Musician" magazine.

Even if the Wiard modules had not been used on the recording, I 
would still be singing the praises of Olivier's amazing production 
quality and musicianship. I also applaud his integration of real 
instruments and modern compositing systems. This is very 
much in the tradition of electronic music stretching back to it's 
very beginning.

A big "Thank you" also to Gino Robair for hosting such a 
delightfully analog oriented article. It always makes me happy 
when I see EM talking about real instruments and real soulful 
musicianship as part of current electronic music.

I realize what an old fuddy-duddy I have become, as I get a slight 
wave of nausea whenever I read about yet another software 
"plugin" simulation of a real musical instrument available for the 
laptop computer.

As Rex and I like to say "No spit valves in the future of music". 
The sanitized, ordorless, tasteless, textureless, software 
simulation of real instruments threatens to replace our soulful 
reality.

Which is why it is so heartening to see that soulful reality 
rewarded with such good press!!

Congratulations again,

Grant Richter