MOTM

Name: Scott Rider

 Self-inflicted nickname: The Old Crow

 Age: 35

 Profession: Electrical Engineer
 
 Location: Fairmont, West Virginia
 
 Modules: 900, 420 (built), 110, 120, 300 (will build soon--been busy ^^;)
 
 Music, case #1: Jazz!  I've played slide T-bone, valve T-bone and trigger
bass-bone since 1976.  Jazz tastes trend from Charlie Parker to Miles
Davis to jazz-fusion (Spyrogyra, et al).  Foxtrot or Bebop, I like em all.

 Music, case #2: Classical piano (and organ).  Studied piano from 1973 to
1985.  Tastes here are Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Satie, etc.

 Music, case #3: Electronic!  Built my first synth gear from Paia stuff in
1978, and have been acquiring synths (modules and keyboards) ever since.

 I owe a lot of my interest in electronic music to two events.  First,
seeing the late Virgil Fox in concert as a child in 1970 (and once more in
1977). I knew I *had* to have a rig like his someday.  Second, hearing
Larry Fast's "Electronic Realisations for Rock Orchestra" for the first
time in 1975. Also mentionable is the time in junior-high when some local
band's keyboard player let me tinker with his ARP Odyssey.

  Musical tastes for me in electronic genre are fairly widespread, though
I will always rate the warm analog, spacey, minimum-of-percussion  music
as done by JMJ, TDream in their "golden years" (1974 to 1987) and Franke
afterward, Vangelis, Isao Tomita (who, paradoxically, plays frequently
with the Japanese percussion group Kodo, the music of which I find most
excellent)...just about anyone who builds albums around analog synthesier
voices.  This does not mean I dislike what digital machines can do (though
I *loathe* samplers), I just tend to remain 'old-school'.  I have at least
one album of anyone I ever heard on Hearts of Space that I found
interesting.

  Current favorite: Anything by Japanese composer-savant Yoko Kanno, who
is easily the most gifted musican since Mozart was alive.  She has done
every musical genre flawlessly, from symphony to jazz to techno to space
music and beyond.

  Other hobbies: designing and building electronic stuff (duh!), cartoon
animation.

  Oh, and at one point, I lived in Japan for several years.


  --Crow

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