Doepfer

Hi Coleman,

> On a lighter note; I was watching the DVD of Apocalypse Now (Redux) 
and I
> was lost in the sea of modular work in the soundtrack.. Any ideas 
on what
> type of equipment was used? I was thinking Buchala?

I have just finished reading an excellent book entitled 'Analog 
Days', by Trevor Pinch & Frank Trocco, Harvard Univ. Press, 2002 
(ISBN 0674008898) which I can thoroughly recommend if, like me, you 
were entranced by the likes of Emerson, Lake and Palmer over 3 
decades ago!!!! It's a very readable history of the early 'analog 
days'.

Apocalypse Now gets a mention in it, and suggests that at least 6 
people were involved (Paul Beaver, Don Buchla, Bernie Krause, Don 
Preston, Patrick Gleeson and Neil Steiner), and that Preston used 
a "perspex modular Moog", but leaves it open as to what else might 
have been used. There is also a reference to a book ('The Art of 
Electronic Music') which appears to contain several pages of 
an "account of the use of the synthesizer in Apocalypse Now".

Tim