Tag: Wendy Carlos

  • Synthesizer Spotlight- The Synergy

    Synthesizer Spotlight- The Synergy

    The Somewhat DX7 Like Alternative The Digital Keyboards Inc Synergy II+  is a digital additive/FM synthesizer that sounds like no other. Somewhat similar to the extremely popular Japanese Yamaha DX7, its tone is mellower and warmer. The Synergy appealed to many performers and composers in that it was, like the Synclavier (one of Michael Jackson’s famous…

  • Prehistoric Ocarinas-Ancient Flints Contain Musical Scales

    Prehistoric Ocarinas-Ancient Flints Contain Musical Scales

    A few years back, I posted the “I Found a… Pipe” blogpost – an attempt to initiate a series of found object accounts; exploring the dynamics of curiosity, the chance encounters, the chains of association, the pratfalls and prat-uplifts that may accompany such discoveries.  One of the persistent themes is the idea that electronic-equivalents of sound-making processes…

  • Toronto Composer Nick Storring sends listener on a journey with “Gardens”

    Toronto Composer Nick Storring sends listener on a journey with “Gardens”

    Nick Storring — Gardens Open Your Eyes And Forget (16.21) (Come To My) Thicket (5.30) Unexpecting (3.52) Nothing Seems To Rhyme (7.25) Inside Every Man Lives the Seed of a Flower (13.21)  Gardens was composed, performed, recorded and mixed spring 2011-autumn 2013. All instruments performed by Nick Storring. The work was designed as an informal…