MOTM

On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 improv@... wrote:

> Also, while I'm being off-topic, are there any Synergy fans on the list
> (Larry Fast, not the instrument). I just realized that, over the years, I'd
> never really listened to any of his work, except for the early Peter
> Gabriel records, which I love. Any recommendations of where to start?

  Start with his first album, "ERFRO".  Electronic Realizations for Rock
Orchestra.  One of my first EM purchases (in 1975) and still one of my
favorite EM albums.  You can then pretty much follow the albums in release
order from there.  (Sequencer, Cords, Games, Semi-Conductor--a compilation
double-album from the first threee albums as well as some other stuff,
Audion, Jupiter Menace--which is mostly reworked material from the above,
Computer Experiments and Metropolitan Suite.

  Something about ERFRO sets it apart from his other stuff.  If you get
only one Synergy album, that is the one.

  Computer Experiments is 45 minutes of algorithmic composition as a Paia
8700 computer (a 6503 CPU running at 440KHz using 1K of RAM) controls a
Prophet-5 and various other analog gear.  The program running on the 8700
is called "Pink Tunes", which I still have and could probably run again on
my 8700--though I would probably rework everything to use modern
microcontrollers if I were to make an algorithmic composer as, say, a 2U
module.

Crow

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