Though ubiquitous today, available as a single microchip and found
in any electronic device requiring sound, the synthesizer when it
first appeared was truly revolutionary. Something radically new--an
extraordinary rarity in musical culture--it was an instrument that
used a genuinely new source of sound: electronics. How this came to
be--how an engineering student at Cornell and an avant-garde
musician working out of a storefront in California set this
revolution in motion--is the story told for the first time in
"Analog Days," a book that explores the invention of the
synthesizer and its impact on popular culture.
The authors take us back to the heady days of the 1960s and
early 1970s, when the technology was analog, the synthesizer was an
experimental instrument, and synthesizer concerts could and did
turn into happenings. Interviews with the pioneers who determined
what the synthesizer would be and how it would be used--from
inventors Robert Moog and Don Buchla to musicians like Brian Eno,
Pete Townshend, and Keith Emerson--recapture their visions of the
future of electronic music and a new world of sound.
Tracing the development of the Moog synthesizer from its
initial conception to its ascension to stardom in "Switched-On
Bach," from its contribution to the San Francisco psychedelic
sound, to its wholesale adoption by the worlds of film and
advertising, "Analog Days" conveys the excitement, uncertainties,
and unexpected consequences of a new technology that would provide
the soundtrack for a critical chapter of our cultural history.
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