Doepfer

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, ":::M 3 D I U M:::" <horn@m...> 
wrote:
> 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?>

There may be some Buchla in there for all I know, but I am sure there 
is at least some ARP 2600.  Zoetrope Studios owned two very heavily-
modified 2600s during that era.  I found this out after buying a used 
2600 from a guy in NJ who casually mentioned after the sale that it 
had been owned by something called Zoetrope, he didn't realize who 
that was.  So I contacted Zoetrope to chase down the history of the 
machine only to find it was the one loaned to George Lucas and used 
for the voice of R2D2 in the first Star Wars.  They confirmed it was 
also used in the excellent film The Conversation and in Apocalypse 
Now.

So I can say I have R2D2 sitting in my home studio.

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

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?

Coleman.

>what
> > type of equipment was used? I was thinking Buchala?
> 
> 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

As far as I know:
Pat Gleeson used the EMU modular (rather big one)
Steiner used his own EVI and synthacon + maybe some Moog.
Keld

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "studio1dk 
<keldsorensen@m...>" <keldsorensen@m...> wrote:
> >what
> > > type of equipment was used? I was thinking Buchala?

Definitely Moog Modular and Steiner synths. Keyboard Magazine 
did a cover story on the making of the soundtrack and sound 
design several years ago (probably a decade or two). 

Happy Merry!

-Mike