I actually watched a video of the mylar pranksters while on lsd , I would search for '" crazy acid man on bus" but not find anything. This one video answered so many questions for me . Best synth channel on KZread, thanks

Thank you LSD 😛

@graviton9282

3 жыл бұрын

@@14Lokas I would definitely agree....

Really great talk. More of this kind of thing! (Please)

@mylarmelodies

6 жыл бұрын

Just went live with another talk - this time on how to make a module! kzread.info/dash/bejne/YpqLstdtcs24fZc.html

Details, but... The Giorgio photo is from 1978/79 when he was working with Sparks in Los Angeles. The Moog is not his, belonged to the Sound Arts studio (originally Paul Beaver's place in Los Angeles, then taken over by Dan Wyman after Paul's death.) And, to be correct, several composers used the RCA MkII to release pieces; Wuorinen, Babbitt, DuBois.

Absolutely engrossing! Electric Kool-aid acid test is only of my very favorite books. Great to hear more about the buchla side of it.

Thanks for doing this. I met Tom at Machines in Music but missed his talk there. Hopefully he will be back next year!

Loved this so much. Thanks for filming and posting.

Thanks a lot for this!

Thankyou for documenting!

Thanks for capturing and sharing! Cheers to Tom for acknowledging and being critical of some pretty gross historical practices. So fascinated by that period between electronic instruments and The Synthesizer itself. The Forbidden Planet soundtrack and The Doctor Who theme are two benchmarks that I use when talking about pre-synthesizer electronic music with family and friends. I'm most intrigued by the use of oscillators as lab equipment, because I don't quite understand the context that they were used in. Were they used to provide reference frequencies for other electronic equipment? How did that work exactly; perhaps someone can enlighten me?

@rumblin_cynth_rampo374

6 жыл бұрын

Oscillators are used in the design and repair of audio circuits (amongst other things). You can use an oscillator to characterise the frequency response of an audio circuit. In repairing a faulty audio (or radio) circuit an oscillator can be used to inject a test signal in to the signal path so that the faulty component can be diagnosed. Oscillators can also be used as stable sources for experiments requiring accurate timings also as source of signals for calibrating test equipment

Super cool, thanks for the upload

thx for sharing. very interesting talk.

thank you!

Just amazing. Many thanks !

What an interesting lecture

Fascinating

An interesting talk but why is Raymond Scott so often forgotten? the 'Karloff' in 1948, the 'Clavivox' (1952), sequencer in '53,.. What's his place in this component story? Even a young Bob Moog visited Raymond Scott in the 50's.

@tombola2004

6 жыл бұрын

He's forgotten because he was so secretive, I think - I believe Bob worked on equipment for Raymond, but he never successfully commercialised anything. He tried to sell the Electronium via Motown & Berry Gordy, but "Ray had a real problem letting go. It was always being developed." I don't know about the later stuff, but his earlier stuff was likely all tube, so mind-bendingly large, expensive, hard to maintain. The point of this story was that military tech (transistors, later ICs and op amps) were what enabled Don Buchla and Bob Moog to create novel, portable, relatively affordable devices. Raymond Scott never really got into that market, unfortunately.

Excellent; thank you :D

Great content, thanks for sharing.

That was fun. Thanks!

thanks for sharing this.

Great talk!

very interesting!! thx!

The stuff Schmitt was doing is fascinating, this is an interesting talk overall, thanks a lot !

fascinating talk.

Very interesting!

Good Stuff!

That's a lot of history to cover in 16 minutes!

Always enjoy Tom's blog (and his circuits, of course), and I look forward to more of these. Only wish this one had been longer! I would also add: for anyone interested in more info into the early days of Fairchild Semiconductor and Silicon Valley in general, there is an excellent episode of American Experience from 2013... kzread.info/dash/bejne/qn1ko8qmcs_KitI.html

Great talks. Are there more videos from this event?

@mylarmelodies

6 жыл бұрын

Ya! This one: How to Make a Eurorack Module: A talk by James Carruthers, NoBotskzread.info/dash/bejne/YpqLstdtcs24fZc.html

@fgsch77

6 жыл бұрын

Cheers. Watched that one as well. Was hoping for some moar :)

@mylarmelodies - thanks for recording this - great talk. Side question: What did you record this with - video and audio is great.

@mylarmelodies

6 жыл бұрын

a1o1 Ta! Sony A7S (It was actually darker in there than it looks on film, which is kinda a reflection of how insane the A7S is). Mic was RODE Lavalier to Zoom F4. But then the whole thing was Dialogue Isolated in Izotope RX6 - which took out constant background noise going on in the space.

@a1o1

6 жыл бұрын

Aha that last bit is the secret sauce for sure.

@mylarmelodies

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah RX is AMAZING and essential

I think there’s a book that needs to be written here...

Its pronounced Moog Tom lol :)

@mylarmelodies

6 жыл бұрын

Actually it's pronounced Moog

@YomYestreen

6 жыл бұрын

Are you quite sure? I heard it was Moog, as in, "Moog".

Meanwhile in the USA in 1965, Moog and Buchla were already building synths. Maybe Brits on LSD had nothing to do with it. ;)

I hate that something I love, synthesizers, came out of imperialist and capitalist exploits. Yes, I do think we could of invented these things without such atrocious people and systems. Reminds me how people can be totally ingenious but also be too focused on their passions and ambitions to consider the bigger picture or the implications of other studies and disciplines, in this case, the bigger picture of what the american military is actually about. There is a history of how these systems came to be also and it isn't pretty at all, atrocious in fact. All for what? Meaningless luxury and random privilege for the few as it creates and contributes to all of our current global socio-ecological crises? I can't help but to be disgusted. They really think they are on some kind of path to heaven or something. It's really just deeper into dystopia with their aimless and unsustainable "growth" and accumulation and reproduction of capital, the intention behind a lot, if not, most of our infrastructure. Welcome to our idealist and utopian shopping mall. Please keep your head in the clouds.

@2112jonr

6 жыл бұрын

Many advances in technology, unfortunately, have come from warfare until the end of the last century. Something we have to live with and accept in our luxuries, be it an iPod, router, Mac, sports tracker, PC, software career, or pretty much anything that contains or uses a CPU. Whilst the 0.01% are hyper rich (and always have been), the general standard of living for most people has gone up and up, along with life expectancy and health. Though I seriously doubt we can continue along this path without destroying half the species on the planet that we depend on, and creating a world we cannot survive in as a species unless we re-think destruction of our forests and species we so heavily depend on. As a species we're very stupid and will bring on our own demise.