Wendy Carlos is on this site and they are talking about a cool way to bake old shedding tapes back to life, I love this approach so much I might run down to Harbor Freight and grab a dehydrator. Yes, that's a reel of tape cooking with the sliced fruit. http://www.wendycarlos.com/bake a tape/baketape.html For those that don't know, Wendy Carlos did the awesome 60's synth music for the Clockwork Orange movie, I crank it on my ION portable Bluetooth Box at the ice rink and it still sends chills to the other team.
I don't know who is him, but thanks for the notice. So where are he talking about that? I guess you refer to tapes that after many years start to degrade. I've never seen one and don't know how is that degradation...
Walkman archive, don't tell me you've never seen "Clockwork Orange" with some of the most haunting yet brilliant synth music of the time. Your in for a treat if you haven't seen it. Alex's Stereo Systems has a mini-cassette player and a very cool Mitchell Transcriptor Turntable. In regards to the dehydrator, apparently it's being used successfully to restore recorded tape that is falling apart. I see it more with reel to reel and VHS where the tapes are either shedding or turning to a sticky liquid mess. Baking is one of the methods used to somewhat restore the tape so you can save the recording by transfering it to something else. The dehydrator must give good results since it's a slower, even bake.
And let us not forget that Wendy Carlos is The Mother of electronic music! Her Switched On Bach is a classic! I am glad to see that my Swithed-On box set is now selling for some serious $$ As it always is, since Roman times, the Father of EM is contested: Stockhausen, Xenakis, Edgar Froese??? But The Mother is undisputed: Wendy Carlos!
If you like Wendy Carlos check out Tomita. You could say he took the usual Japanese approach of taking other people ideas and then implementing them better than anyone else. His "Pictures At An Exhibition" would be a good place to start.
Yes,but Wendy was Walter !before changing gender. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange:_Wendy_Carlos's_Complete_Original_Score
@Longman yes, I do have a few Tomita CDs, but as with Wendy Carlos box they just sit there, unplayed for decades. As my fav EM master, Klaus Schulze once mentioned: the less said about Tomita, the better... And then he went to produce "Klaus Schulze Goes Classic", go figure! Listened to Swithed-on Bach today, the same impression as from decades ago: it is an abomination! Listening to Tomita's interpretation of Debussy or Pictures does not hurt that much, but still a waste of time
I'm going out on a limb, this guy is my favorite synth-dark movie theme-mystro... He took all these people and put them in a blender and came out with this masterpiece....
Niice!!! Who is the Dude? Sounds a bit like my newly found love, Der Spyra (or maybe KS with Ashra), I MUST know more!!!
scrape that! John Carpener is the Dude... Google Rules!!! Sorry, I am not the biggest movies fan, did not recognize the guy... SORRY!!! David Lynch is my only link between where I am and the "real world", Ha!
With Music and especially Synthesizer Music you have to consider the historical aspect. I quite recently bought Switched on Bach to find out what all the fuss was about, and my first impression was that it wasn't as good as Tomita. However, as noted earlier Walter/Wendy Carlos was using the Moog synthesizer several years before Tomita and apparently even helped Robert Moog in its development by making suggestions and testing prototype units. Last weekend I was at my Mothers house and found and played this album which was released in 1973 and bought by her shortly afterwards. If you aren't familiar with the Music for Pleasure label it was a budget one and the album was almost certainly bought in the local supermarket for £1 At the time the Moog synthesizer was a huge novelty hence the number of albums it starred on. I can't think of an instrument since it that had the same impact (with the possible exception of the turntable and scratching). I really enjoyed listening to the original vinyl, bringing back memories of being a ten year old hearing a Synthesizer for the first time. Shortly after this we got the Tomita Pictures at an Exhibition album which is probably why I am so biased towards it. What is surprising is how quickly Synthesizers advanced throughout the 1970s. This superb film-score type piece is played on one from 1978. I hope you enjoy it.
You just nailed it! Great tune a la Mozart cannot be beaten, but memory lane is yet another magic! In my early teens moog synth sounded truly magical, I used to wobble the sheet of 1mm steel to get high, the sound of it transported me into Space Odyssey 2001. I still remember thinking if i'm gonna live that long, to see 2001... Hammond organ worked for me too then... I cannot blame Wendy Carlos for introducing me to J.S.Bach, it was the other way around, but i did get to learn about Gustav Holst and "The Planets" through ELP album, so maybe Klaus Schulze was not totally wrong when saying that his "KS Goes Classic" can bring youngsters into the "real music"
Ahh, now I get it. I didn't realize what 'clockwork orange' was; thanks for the clarification. Yes, I've seen the movie some time ago, but don't remember that gear. I saw it before I got back into cassettes and all that.
