{"id":15478,"date":"2014-07-31T03:43:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T02:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15478"},"modified":"2021-04-03T14:48:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T13:48:40","slug":"synthesizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/07\/31\/synthesizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Synthesizing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tangerine Dream’s Chris Franke, 1973.<\/em><\/p>\n

Following yesterday’s post, more synth-mania with an emphasis on the Analogue Seventies. YouTube is laden with this stuff but the best things often take some searching out.<\/p>\n

Tangerine Dream, Paris, 1973<\/strong><\/a>
\nThis is one I’d not seen before, Tangerine Dream when they were still in their Krautrock phase prior to signing to Virgin. The music sounds like outtakes from the Atem<\/em> album, and as usual with these films it’s great to see what instruments are being used.<\/p>\n

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Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral, 1975<\/strong><\/a>
\nBaumann, Franke and Froese again performing one of their cathedral concerts. Tony Palmer directed this but the sound was lost so the 27-minute film has edits of the Ricochet<\/em> album as the soundtrack. (See Voices in the Net<\/a>.) Ricochet<\/em> was compiled from live recordings from the same period so it’s not so inappropriate.<\/p>\n

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Klaus Schulze, 1977<\/strong><\/a>
\nKlaus Schulze played drums on the first Tangerine Dream album, Electronic Meditation<\/em> (1970), but was never an official member of the group. This lengthy improvisation is typical of the swathes of beatless music he was producing for much of the 1970s.<\/p>\n

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Laurie Spiegel, 1977<\/strong><\/a>
\nLaurie Spiegel demonstrates one of the earliest digital synthesizers. Spiegel’s 1980 album, The Expanding Universe<\/em>, was reissued in 2012<\/a>, and is well worth seeking out. There’s more rare analogue and digital synthesis on her YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Vangelis, 1978<\/strong><\/a>
\nVangelis in the studio recording the China<\/em> (1979) album. If you can overlook the Chinoiserie clich\u00e9s there’s some very good music on this release, some of which looks forward to the Blade Runner<\/em> soundtrack.<\/p>\n

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3-2-1 Contact, 1980<\/strong><\/a>
\nA great little film with Suzanne Ciani demonstrating synthesizers for a show on the Children’s Television Workshop. Featuring an oscilloscope and a Prophet 5.<\/p>\n

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The Original New Timbral Orchestra<\/a><\/strong>
\nMalcolm Cecil and Robert Margouleff made their name as Tonto\u2019s Expanding Head Band, “Tonto” being Cecil\u2019s custom-built TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) synthesizer. Cecil shows off his analogue gear in this short film.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Tangerine Dream in Poland<\/a>
\n\u2022 Electronic Music Review<\/a>
\n\u2022 Tonto\u2019s expanding frog men<\/a>
\n\u2022 A Clockwork Orange: The Complete Original Score<\/a>
\n\u2022 White Noise: Electric Storms, Radiophonics and the Delian Mode<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tangerine Dream’s Chris Franke, 1973. Following yesterday’s post, more synth-mania with an emphasis on the Analogue Seventies. YouTube is laden with this stuff but the best things often take some searching out. Tangerine Dream, Paris, 1973 This is one I’d not seen before, Tangerine Dream when they were still in their Krautrock phase prior to … Continue reading “Synthesizing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,7,3,15,19],"tags":[1861,6304,6306,692,3853,5061,5062,3593,889,5060,6305,3953],"class_list":["post-15478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronica","category-film","category-music","category-technology","category-television","tag-blade-runner","tag-chris-franke","tag-klaus-schulze","tag-krautrock","tag-laurie-spiegel","tag-malcolm-cecil","tag-robert-margouleff","tag-suzanne-ciani","tag-tangerine-dream","tag-tontos-expanding-head-band","tag-tony-palmer","tag-vangelis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-41E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}