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To expand on our tribute to Robert Moog, we'll listen back to some of our earliest Echoes features with a few music luminaries who helped make "Moog" synonymous with "synthesizer." |
WENDY CARLOS (1989)  |
Wendy Carlos's Switched On Bach recordings revolutionized the use of Moog synthesizers in music. Twenty years later, she headed in a new and equally revolutionary direction with digital synthesizers. In 1989 she replicated the sounds of symphonic orchestras, Balinese gamelan orchestras, and orchestras of totally new sounds, in her original and evocative compositions on albums like Beauty in the Beast. |
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BACK IN TIME WITH TONTO'S EXPANDING HEAD BAND Thirty-five years ago, before Tangerine Dream got their first synthesizers and while Brian Eno was still figuring out mascara, Tonto's Expanding Head Band was realizing an album of seminal electronic space music called Zero Time. In 1997, in the wake of that album's CD reissue and the resurrection of T.O.N.T.O., The Original New Timbral Orchestra, we visited Malcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff, fired up Tonto, and went back to Zero Time. |
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(1993) Along with Wendy Carlos, Isao Tomita is the pre-eminent synthesist of classical music, but in his case, it's 20th century classical instead of baroque. listen>>(approx
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| KLAUS SCHULZE (1990)  |
A founding member of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze is one of the most influential composers of electronic space music. In this 1990 feature, Schulze discussed his philosophy of sound, his extended compositions, and his methods of electronic orchestration. We also hear comments by Steve Roach and Kitaro.
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 DAVID BORDEN The Moog of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company (2003) |
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In the early 1960s, no one was touring and playing Moog synthesizers live. But David Borden put together a synthesizer trio to perform his intricate, minimalist inspired contrapuntal designs. They were called Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company and they were swapping patchcords and turning knobs a couple of years before Tangerine Dream or Kraftwerk got their first synthesizers. David Borden is still composing, recording and performing live. A couple of years ago he dropped by our studio to talk about the early days of Moog performance and his latest directions. listen>> (approx 7 minutes) |
TANGERINE DREAM |
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Synthesizers are more popular than ever, with techno, ambient and electronica. Mark Shreeve and company go back to the roots of electronic music with CDs like Ether, their second album as Redshift. Their signature sound is the Moog synthesizer of 1970s fame, as they pay homage to the pioneers of German space music, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze with spacious, extended musical journeys. After twenty-five years of digital synthesizers, this vintage analog gear offers a surprisingly fresh sound to new music. |
Jean-Benoit Dunckel |
AIR Air is a French duo that's making retro music for the future. Pulling sounds from old Moog synthesizers, Fender Rhodes pianos and vocoders, Air sound like future music from the past, articulating a curious mix of cocktail cool and serenely surreal pop. In 1998, we spoke with Jean Benoit Dunckel & Nicholas Godin about the sounds of tomorrow and their album, Moon Safari. listen>>> (about 7 min.) |
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