Tag: synthesiser
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Malcolm Clarke on the Radiophonic Workshop
Malcolm Clarke was a composer and engineer for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, composing the music for many Doctor Who series. Apparently he wrote about the Workshop and his career for a thesis on interactive CD format (remember them?) and his son Ollie with Ray White has wisely converted and adapted the format for the web…
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RC 289: Pooh Sticks
A bear of little brain playing acoustic pooh sticks with lots of musical honey, from songs about sheep to a house party Fox, 8-bit grunge covers to Victorian space hip-hop, Spanish funk to castles in space, ancient synthesisers to arabic hiphop, and Clangers and steam engines oh my! And of course the usual helping of…
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Peter Zinovieff
Great interview with composer and synth pioneer Peter Zinovieff who co-invented the EMS synthesisers and called the ‘British Bob Moog’ and the amazing EMS studio started 50 years ago. I didn’t know he worked with a ZX81, but mostly abandoned computer music for 30 years. And he uses REAPER now!
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Starship 109
Mistral had prize of place in my latest long mix – Psychodelidisco, with that strange chilly Spanish guitar / space disco hybrid featured on ‘Jamie’ and ‘Starship 109’. Proving that sad lonely dance tracks about distant space hardware were not invented by RAH Band (but personally that was actually my first experience of space disco,…
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Happy Birthday Speech Synthesis
Around 40 years ago, Forrest S. Mozer created the first Integrated Circuit speech synthesiser, modelled on his voice, and licensed it to a company creating instruments for blind people. But you’ll more likely recognise it as the voices in Berzerk and later sampled in the Stakker track ‘Humanoid’. Ploque are plugging a new plugin ‘chipspeech’…
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Ólafur Arnalds – Living Room Songs
I’ve been raving about Erased Tapes, and especially Ólafur Arnalds and co. for a long time now – and it’s good he’s getting some recognition via the BAFTA nomination. So to celebrate Erased Tapes have posted the full film of Living Room Songs. I played ‘Near Light’ from this last year on the podcast and…