tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post952555250842819691..comments2023-12-23T23:50:18.305+01:00Comments on Audionautas: Clara Rockmore. La diva del éter (V).Audionauthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02123997448784725789noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-41778425184319787992016-05-07T00:03:34.347+02:002016-05-07T00:03:34.347+02:00Homer Dudley is a good one also, but I don't k...Homer Dudley is a good one also, but I don't know details about his career, it needs some research to see if it's viable. I will tell you who are on my to do list. <br /><br />-Lightwave. French electronic duo. Quite easy to do (lots of infos online), but quite long and I'm not very familiar with a few of their albums.<br /><br />-Tonto's Expanding Head Band. American duo. Probably more interesting the review of their two albums. They were mainly producers for Stevie Wonder.<br /><br />-Paolo Ketoff and the Syn-Ket. I purchased a book about Ketoff by an Italian musicologist a year ago and it is so boring that I stopped reading it. Maybe I might extract some useful information, I don't know.<br /><br />-Harald Bode. Electronic pioneer. He designed a lot of electronic instruments, vocoders, organs, etc. I have to read more about his life and works to fall in love with his story.<br /><br />-Evgeny Murzin. Inventor of the ANS Synthesizer and founder of the first electronic studio in the USSR. There is a book published in russian that I downloaded freely some months ago. I did not understand anything, of course, and almost it doesn't include pictures or diagrams. Strange.<br /><br />-Peter Zinovieff of EMS. Not exactly a musician, not exactly a technician (he was geologist), but he was the CEO of the first synthesizer maker in the UK, he had a private computer studio in the 60s. Really interesting, not so many sources.<br /><br />-Keytars. I would like to write a story with a lot humoristic and sarcastic touches about keytars and musicians that used over the decades. It could be interesting and original. I have compiled lots of materials and pictures and even I have structured some chapters. I hope to write it someday. It might be an interesting and original book.<br /><br />-Reportage about John Carpenter/Alan Howarth electronic soundtracks. Not an easy task, also quite long, but really interesting.<br /><br />-Reportage about the electronic soundtracks by The Maurice Jarre electronic ensemble. Very few info online, really difficult to find. I don't know books about Maurice Jarre published in English. Complicated.<br /><br />-Subharchord. A strange synthesizer from the former DDR, very similar to the Mixturtrautonium by Oskar Sala. Lots of info online, but I will have to read a lot of technical information and try to make it simpler for humans to understand. Months of work, I guess. <br /><br />-Didier Bocquet. If he knocks my door tomorrow (or my email), I start to write right away. I would like so much to tell his story.<br /><br />I have some others stories in mind, but mainly reviews that I'm preparing slowly and others that I would like to write someday.<br /><br />Greetings<br /><br />PabloAudionauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02123997448784725789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-29530195913964506472016-05-06T22:09:15.830+02:002016-05-06T22:09:15.830+02:00Hi Pablo,
may I try a new candidate after Bernard ...Hi Pablo,<br />may I try a new candidate after Bernard Szajner ?<br />I think about Homer Dudley, a pioneering electronic and acoustic engineer who created the first electronic voice synthesizer for Bell Labs in the 1930s.He led to the patent for the "Vocoder" (a portmanteau of "voice" and "encoder"), a method of reproducing speech through electronic means. His development of artificial speech was elaborated upon by others to produce methods of artificial speech for humans unable to use their vocal cords (as with the voice synthesizer used by Stephen Hawking), and by electronic music pioneers Wendy Carlos, Robert Moog and Kraftwerk. Its true its pure technogy and not musician. So probably you have to decline this out of context proposal for a candidate to your blog :-).<br />Regards and Thanks<br />musicyoucanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14424140875834865015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-70814282478328293072016-05-06T11:27:01.335+02:002016-05-06T11:27:01.335+02:00Hi Musicyoucan
Thank you. I think it's true, ...Hi Musicyoucan<br /><br />Thank you. I think it's true, Zanov's story is very interesting. I was two months interviewing him via email to write his biography. It was really good fun.<br /><br />I think Jean Michel Jarre's career is great until Zoolook. After that he put music aside (What was first the music or the multimedia show?), and although you can find interesting pieces on his music after Zoolook, he ceased to be the avant-garde musician who had been in the past to became some sort of MC (Master Of Ceremonies or Multimedia Clown, if you prefer). His inability to play live (playbacked shows in fact), and his ability to produce more mediocre albums full of presets eroded his career completely to this day, that he can only produce crap like those two Electronica volumes, where he pretend to be modern and relevant, but in the end he's ridiculous. He is not interested in music anymore, just making money.<br /><br />In relation to Terry Riley, I think he's very well known and I'm sure some books exist about him. He used technology (Yamaha YC-45D organ mainly), but he didn't create or developed technologies. In the minimal music trend I prefer David Borden and Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., because he was a pioneer using the Moog Synthesizer live and he is very unknown.<br /><br />Bernard Szajner is a very interesting character. I like some of his music as ZED (Visions Of Dune), and he developed the laser harp. He suits my requirements, I'll add it to my list.<br /><br />Greetings<br /><br />PabloAudionauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02123997448784725789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-28330384142939099742016-05-05T21:57:39.594+02:002016-05-05T21:57:39.594+02:00Hi Pablo,
Two candidates for a post I have in mind...Hi Pablo,<br />Two candidates for a post I have in mind : Terry Riley at the origine of the repetitive principle (with a good application by Pete Townsend of the Who and Baba O'Riley) and another grea t guy, Bernard Szajner (Who it had some problem with the french guy JMJ :-).<br />They are two electronic musicians resepecting your criteria I think.<br />I like also Larry fast and I bought in 1975 his first opus, without any idea f the music, but for the disc cover.<br />For JMJ, I met in the music domain only people saying Oxygene was great, a long time ago, Equinoxe in the continuity, but not so great, and after JMJ managed a business far from the music, and with a poor respect with all the people having helped him to be in the highlights ...<br />You post on Zanov is , from my point of view, one of you best. This guy and his family had a very interesting story.<br />Regards and thanksmusicyoucanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14424140875834865015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-30030580539338184532016-05-05T10:35:51.886+02:002016-05-05T10:35:51.886+02:00Yes, exactly, you got my point. Michel Geiss could...Yes, exactly, you got my point. Michel Geiss could be an interesting character for a reportage, but he is more a technician, inventor, sound engineer than a musician with his own career in electronic music, that is not the case. But if I had to choose, I would prefer to write about Geiss than Jarre, that's for sure. <br /><br />For example Synergy is interesting for me because he was at the forefront of music technology during the 70s and 80s, not only with his own albums, also playing with Peter Gabriel or Nektar. He helped to evolve a lot of music technologies (MIDI, digital synthesizers, computer music).<br /><br />I don't speak French, but as a Latin language like Spanish or Catalan, more or less I can understand it, but I'm sure the Laurent de Wilde will be a great addition to my library about electronic music.<br /><br />My post about Open Worlds is just OK, nothing great in fact. Three months ago Pierre asked me for help about promotion of his new album and since I had written his biography and knowing I have a lot of followers on social networks I agreed as a personal favour. But in this case Open Worlds is an album without historic background, so you can't make the same kind of narrative approach as in records with 30 or 40 years of history at their back. But anyway, I think is good enough to publish and have some info on the album that you won't find anywhere else.<br /><br />Greetings<br /><br />PabloAudionauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02123997448784725789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-73363337681116301522016-05-04T19:31:56.043+02:002016-05-04T19:31:56.043+02:00Hi again musicyoucan
I think Weldon's book o...Hi again musicyoucan<br /><br /><br />I think Weldon's book on Manuel is good, it could be better (a little 'fanboy' at times), but reasonably well written, well documented, but hey! it's the first book about Manuel ever published and made by a humble librarian of Northern England not by any hipster London music critic that praise E2-E4 all day but know nothing about Manuel's career, Berlin School or electronic music in general.<br /><br />In relation to Zanov, Pierre gave me access to a private Souncloud account in mid February I have been listening to the album since then. In my opinion is phenomenal, the best cosmic album of this year so far (I'm completely in love with "Remote Impact", a superb piece of music, but all in all is amazing), full of arpeggiated and evolutive sounds. You discover new sounds, new details on every listen.<br /><br />The new Peter Baumann album will be very interesting to hear. His latest albums in the 80s were not so good, but this one it seems quite different, at least thanks to the snippets already posted.<br /><br />Greetings<br /><br />Pablo/AudionautAudionauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02123997448784725789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-53863530573565865322016-05-04T19:17:39.177+02:002016-05-04T19:17:39.177+02:00The description of the boundaries and the context ...The description of the boundaries and the context of your publication is 100% clear and I'm with you. I've 20 thousand CDs and 30 thousand vinyls and I don't need to read a CD review such as JM Jarre or Klaus Schulze/Edgar Froese materials. However I think to write something on second knifes helping these guys to be in the highlights could be interesting. A good example is with Michel Geiss in the Jarre case ...<br />I'm pretty sure you will have a lot of pleasure with the Laurent Wilde book (556 pages), becaure you are sharing a lot of domains of interest and points of view on this romantic period as you said.<br />Good reading and I'm waiting your next post, for sure.<br />Regardsmusicyoucanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14424140875834865015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-17205394525108847602016-05-04T19:00:18.795+02:002016-05-04T19:00:18.795+02:00Hi again,
I bought and read the Christian Weldon b...Hi again,<br />I bought and read the Christian Weldon book on Manuel. Very documented and interesting.<br />The last CD of Zanov is excellent also. I bought it with Pierre 3 weeks ago in France.<br />For me it is clear that you spent a lot of time to write your post, according the high quality and the well documented ad precised information. I think you're applying the best approach. Publication only when you are really ready.<br />Now I'm waiting for the Peter Baumann last CD, that will be available the 26th of May. I ordered it already.<br />Your blog and the Electronic Orgy blog are my recent discover and it is really a huge pleasure to read it.<br />Thanks a lot.<br />Regards.<br />musicyoucanmusicyoucanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14424140875834865015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-14706062877300567352016-05-04T18:40:06.083+02:002016-05-04T18:40:06.083+02:00Oh thank you, very kind of you. My blog is exactly...Oh thank you, very kind of you. My blog is exactly what you say, history of electronic music until MIDI. I think that after MIDI, things became a little less romantic.<br /><br />I also like Berlin School a lot, but my aim with the blog was telling these stories about not well-known musicians/engineers from the past, the true pioneers in the electronic music field. For example, I'm not interested in reviewing Oxygène or Equinoxe for thousandth time, I would have nothing new to tell, nothing interesting to add, therefore I think it's not interesting, even it could generate more visits to the blog. I'm not doing it for fame, I'm doing it for passion and my aim is trying to tell good, interesting stories about pioneers and electronic musician from the past. The same goes for Berlin School artists like Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and so on. Can I say anything new about Phaedra or Timewind? I don't think so.<br /><br />Some of my articles/reportages can take weeks, even months of research and writing until I think is OK to publish. Nowadays I would like to be much more prolific, but those long reportages are very time-consuming and although It's fun writing them, in the end people don't care too much. <br /><br />Anyway, I have good news for you about Manuel Göttsching because I'm writing a review about Christian Weldon's book The Musical Life Of Manuel Göttsching that I hope to finish in coming weeks, but before that my review of Open Worlds by Zanov this Friday.<br /><br />Greetings<br /><br />Pablo/Audionaut<br /><br />PS. I always liked Synergy. I know he is not everyone's cup of tea, but once I wrote Larry Fast's biography more than a decade ago I tried to complete the reviews of all his albums (that's the reason why you found too much Synergy albums, hehehe). Tha same goes for Richard Pinhas, but with a different point of view. In this case I told his biography (at least the first part of his career), through the reviews of his albums. If you gather all five reviews, as a result you have a quite comprehensive biography of his first solo years.Audionauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02123997448784725789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-70467270543873824882016-05-04T17:58:46.382+02:002016-05-04T17:58:46.382+02:00You're welcome Pablo. You are yet my reference...You're welcome Pablo. You are yet my reference on Electronic music history in fact. Your blog is fantastic for the prehistoric period (before the synthetisers). After , perhaps too much on Larry Fast and too few on the Berlin school, from my preferences (I'm a Manual Gottsching afficionado). In France in addition of old pioneer such as Schaeffer/Henry, we have of course Zanov, Pinhas, and another not so known, Betrand Loreau. From Spain, I like a lot David Roa. Best regardsmusicyoucanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14424140875834865015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-32474134359063855182016-05-04T17:30:46.715+02:002016-05-04T17:30:46.715+02:00Thanks a lot musicyoucan for the link. I own a qui...Thanks a lot musicyoucan for the link. I own a quite good book collection on electronic music history, biographies, essays and so on (more than 175 books in 10 different languages), but I didn't know this one. It looks really interesting. I will try to get it!! ThanksAudionauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02123997448784725789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-56395146886172954582016-05-04T12:54:25.384+02:002016-05-04T12:54:25.384+02:00Great news. I found your facebook site. Thanks.
I&...Great news. I found your facebook site. Thanks.<br />I'm pretty sure you know the book of Laurent de Wilde "Les fous du son", very documented on some subjects (Theremin, Martenot, Ducaine, Hammond, ect ...) you wrote.<br />http://www.laurentdewilde.com/index.php?pg=words&chge-categorie=107 is the site with some additional documentation to this very interesting book. BTW Laurent is a great jazzman musician also.<br />Regards and Thanksmusicyoucanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14424140875834865015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-73051732112134600852016-05-04T11:05:17.121+02:002016-05-04T11:05:17.121+02:00Yes I continue to write on electronic music. In fa...Yes I continue to write on electronic music. In fact in a couple of days I will post a new review to the blog. Secondly, my one and only blog is Audionautas, but you can find me on social networks easily as Audionautas too where we have gathered a good community of electronic music lovers from all around the world. And third, no I haven't write a book yet and it's not in my plans at the moment, but who knows? Audionauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02123997448784725789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-88791433404003332242016-05-04T10:11:01.951+02:002016-05-04T10:11:01.951+02:00Thanks a lot for you quick feedback Sir Pablo Frei...Thanks a lot for you quick feedback Sir Pablo Freire.<br />Did you continue to write on electronic Music? Did you have a public blog? Did you write some book (in this case i will buy them immediatelly). Please answer yes to all my questions :-) If not it will be very very sad for the music history diffusion. Regards and thanks again.musicyoucanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14424140875834865015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-52381682042495897012016-05-04T09:58:45.154+02:002016-05-04T09:58:45.154+02:00Thank you very much musicyoucan. ;-)Thank you very much musicyoucan. ;-)Audionauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02123997448784725789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-89474390647317129682016-05-04T09:01:29.713+02:002016-05-04T09:01:29.713+02:00All I found on you web site is wonderfull and uniq...All I found on you web site is wonderfull and unique on the Internet. Thank You, Thank you, I'm learn so much on the history of this music. You are my best discover on the Internet from a long time. Thanks and take care. musicyoucanmusicyoucanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14424140875834865015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-5351025669656040542015-10-26T14:03:37.253+01:002015-10-26T14:03:37.253+01:00Muchas gracias, me alegro de que te haya gustado.
...Muchas gracias, me alegro de que te haya gustado.<br /><br />Un saludo<br /><br />Pablo/AudionautAudionauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02123997448784725789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7015866193616373691.post-62722929814727912962015-10-26T12:00:41.178+01:002015-10-26T12:00:41.178+01:00He descubierto hoy este magnífico relato sobre Cla...He descubierto hoy este magnífico relato sobre Clara Rockmore y el theremin.<br /><br />Me he leido los cinco capítulos sin descansar.<br /><br />Gran trabajo.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10886907979167547219noreply@blogger.com