The Electronic Music Foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary by holding a panel on the future of electronic music
at New York's Chelsea Art Museum; the guest list reads like a who's who
of music. These are the people who literally invented the technologies
we now use:
- Jon Appleton: worked on the team that built the Synclavier
- Max Matthews: pioneered digital audio technologies at Bell Labs
- Robert Moog: first commercially successful synthesizer
- Laurie Spiegel: first software instrument (in 1985!)
- Morton Subotnik: worked with Buchla on one of the first synths
- Daniel Teruggi: worked on the SYTER digital synth in the 1970s (1970s!)
And of course, these are highly condensed one-liners for people whose
whole lives have contributed one innovation after another. All of it
free for members (including champagne)! If you can't make it to Chelsea
Monday night December 6 at 8p, just tune into CDM next week for
coverage.
Wow. Inasmuch as I will be at home in LouisiAfrica instead of able to bop down to the Chelsea Drugstore, I will be grateful for the coverage.
Not that I'm waiting for their pronouncements on the future. I simply admire what they've accomplished. And will enjoy reading whatever it is they say.
Yes, I agree . . . these guys have already created the future of electronic music. Could just as easily look to the past. (Sure they will.)
Now if only I had a Roland R-1 to record them. I'll just have to settle for tape . . . give me time to transcribe highlights.