#electronic pioneer

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[cassette-amateur]

[silversunray]

RIP Ryuichi Sakamato

Sweet Revenge 1994

[musickickztoo]

Delia Derbyshire

May 5, 1937 – July 3, 2001

[foxyou-too]

Pioneer HDJ-700-K Over-Ear DJ Headphones

[thefugitivesaint]

An informative piece on the electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos. Worth a read if you dig electronic music and want to familiarize yourself with one of the musicians who helped establish and shape that genre. Carlos attended Brown University, double majored in Music and Physics, then went on to complete a master’s degree in music composition at Columbia University. Carlos’ formed a working relationship with Robert Moog (”the inventor of the first commercially available synthesizer” as the article puts it) which resulted in Moog introducing “touch-sensitive keys” into his synthesizers “allowing a similar level of dynamic expression to the pianos upon which they were based.”  After producer and singer Rachel Elkind heard one of Carlos’ renditions of Bach, Elkind helped Carlos produce what would become her debut album, ‘Switched-On-Bach’ (the release of which lead to the Moog synthesizer becoming a legitimate instrument and helped establish it’s popular use).  From the article: “Carlos says she chose Bach’s music because his flurries of notes would be easier to replicate on a primitive synthesizer than slower, more sustained orchestral pieces. Despite involving exceptionally complex circuitry, the early Moog synthesizers were monophonic, meaning they could only play one note at a time, and they were recorded, painstakingly, note by note, in analogue fashion. Each inch of tape contained up to eight manually spliced edits; altogether, the album took over 1,100 hours of work to complete.” .... “While the likes of the Beatles and Beach Boys had already used synths in pop songs by 1966, Switched-On Bach was the essential album in the first revolution of the synthesizer. It took the instrument out of the abstract realm of textures and avant-garde compositions, and made it sound harmonic, organic and instantly recognizable as music.” .... “Carlos brought classical music back into the present and the future of popular music. In 1969, Switched-On Bach reached number 10 on the Billboard 200; by 1986, it was the second classical album, and first-ever electronic album to go platinum, selling over a million copies in the U.S. In 1970, it won three Grammys, for Best Classical Album, Best Classical Performance—Instrumental Soloist and Best Engineered Classical Record. It was a genuine phenomenon and spawned leagues of long-forgotten imitation albums. But, on a much deeper level, through Switched-On Bach, the foundation of western classical music and harmony also became the foundation of global popular electronic music.” All the while, “Carlos had been working with the sexologist Harry Benjamin, whose work focused mostly on transgender patients.” “The success of “Switched-On Bach,” Grammys included, helped Carlos complete her transition and focus on her musical work. Carlos eventually came out, and as such she became the first openly trans woman with a Grammy — three, to be exact. After that breakthrough album she kept rising to new heights, scoring the films A “Clockwork Orange,” “The Shining,” and “Tron.” That success set an important precedent for trans artists in the industry.” Note: some of my above biography was lifted from the second article linked to below. Giving credit where it’s due because attribution is important. 

[macbethz]

you guys better fucking CHEER and CLAP when i drop my mini sci fi project tomorrow. she is very special to me

[stone-cold-groove]

From the classic audio files: 1976/1977 Pioneer HiFi Stereo equipment product brochure. Interior panels - loudspeaker systems.

[go-go-devil]

All these are clear emblems, Perfect pictures of an unchangeable fate They make us think that whatever he does, The Devil does well

[machetelanding]

[disease]

PARANOID LONDON // STEAL & ADAPT (OR) [ARSEHOLES, LIARS, AND ELECTRONIC PIONEERS, FEB 2024]

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Chillout Blunder Mix May 2023 [House, Breaks, Breakbeat, Bass]

Tracklist

Hugo Massien - Beyond Completely Gone

Steppin’ Wolf - Gezeitenströmung

Olsen - Radiant Omen

Will Silver, Supreems - We Can Talk - Supreems Remix

Moox - Planet-B

A-Sim - Never Ending Story

Earth Trax - Afloat

Sumluv - No Place

DJ Bogdan - Love Inna Basement (Morning Dub)

DjRUM - Showreel, Pt. 2

Skee Mask - Flyby Vfr

Overmono - Quadraluv

Dylan Forbes - Djibril 9

Parallels - Other

Adam BFD - Underwater

Bhed, Pugilist - Somni (Pugilist Remix)

Icicle - Anything

Biome, Versa - Nomad

Drone - Entropy

Felix Leifur - Brot 13

Sectra - Reciting The Grimoire (Original Mix)

7 - Night Dive

Patrick Conway - Castor & Pollux

[ourladyofomega]

Suzanne Ciani's "Liberator" / "Summer" 7" vinyl single.

[lil-doodles]

Drawing of Earl William “Madman” Muntz (1914-1987) from his Wikipedia page. Muntz was an interesting character. He was an engineer and salesman who invented the crazy pitchman persona that is now a standard in commercials. He reverse engineered early televisions to make them affordable and invented a four track cassette player for cars that later became the eight track. He made millions selling electronics and palled around with movie stars, dated Phyllis Diller, and was married to movie actress Joan Barton (one of his seven marriages!). The next time you see a lunatic on television yelling about used cars or electronics thing about the original madman, Earl Muntz!

[meetmeinthesandbox]

King Perry!

[zef-zef]

Pioneers of Electronic Music.

Ann Southam

When she began to study composition seriously in 1960, a teacher, Gustav Ciamaga, introduced her to the relatively new field of electronic music.

"I loved the mucking-around quality of it," she said of her time in the University of Toronto's electronic-music studio.

"It was a combination of making things happen and letting things happen. There was no point trying to tune anything. Things would just kind of drift off. It was like a wilderness of sounds. And now that whole wonderful playground has been paved over," she said, referring to the much more sophisticated equipment available today. (source: theglobeandmail)

She founded, with Mary Gardiner, the Association of Canadian Women Composers in 1981. She was the first president (1980–'88), life member (2002), and honorary president (2007). (source: thecanadianencyclopedia)

photo: taken from facebook, but original is archived by the Canadian goverment :-) Date:10 March 1975. Reference:Accession number: 1981-262 NPC, Box number: 6359 Type of material:Photographs Found in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:4814808 Place of creation:Canada Extent:1 photograph. Language of material:English Additional information: Series added entry: X-306, frame 22/22A Source:Private

source: government of Canada: Library and Archives :-) 📸: Walter Curtin