Tag: Composer
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RIP Elias Rahbani
Sadly just heard the very gifted Lebanese composer Elias Rahbani has died of COVID-19. I suspect not many in the west have heard of him unless like me they have a penchant for Arabic funk/disco/psych verging on prog – he covers all of these bases! As of hearing of his death, three of his tunes…
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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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Here Is A Musical Box – RIP Brian Cant
Sadly Brian Cant, a cornerstone of my childhood from Play School, Play Away, even Orbital videos has died aged 83. But I think his best work was on the Trumptonshire trilogy – people mostly remember his voice-over work on them especially Camberwick Green – “Here is a box, a musical box, wound up and ready…
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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!