Tag: synthesizer

Echo Location: Robert Moog’s 75th

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090520.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSEchoes celebrates Moog synthesizer inventor Robert Moog‘s 75th Birthday You can hear an audio version of this blog with music here. In the front room of his London home, Mark Shreeve of the English space band, Redshift and Arc, has a massive modular Moog system full of patch…

Synergy-Larry Fast Interview

A synthesizer pioneer reflects on his work with Peter Gabriel, Wendy Carlos and his own Synergy albums. Larry Fast was an early exponent of purely electronic and melodic space music.  His album, Realizations for Rock  Orchestra is still a favorite among electronic music fans.    He worked with Peter Gabriel extensively in the 1970s and…

Echo Location: Roger O’Donnell Finds the Voyager Cure

http://media.blubrry.com/echoespodcast/www.xpn.org/podcasts/echoes/echoes20090311.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS Echoes plugs in ex-Cure keyboardist, Roger O’Donnell You can hear an audio version of this blog, with music. In his London apartment, Roger O’Donnell only has one keyboard, the Mini-Moog Voyager that he’s playing as we speak. For the last few years, the Voyager has been pretty…

November 2001 CD of the Month: Erik Wøllo

Erik Erik Wøllo’s music floats with the grace of a hawk, effortlessly riding air currents that are left painted and glistening in his wake. But what sounds effortless is actually deeply layered, intricately woven and composed with a poetic language. Sometimes Erik is acoustic, as on GUITAR NOVA, sometimes all electronic, like POLAR DRONES, but…