brian eno, terry riley, morton subotnick, BBC radiophonic workshop, bob moog, john chowning, klaus schulze, kraftwerk, mother mallard, TG, ryuichi sakamoto, SAWII, flotel, plastikman, alva noto, cliff martinez
Sounds Like
'Presented here are twenty pieces of music created on twenty different synthesisers, one from each
year between 1968 and 1988.
The purpose of this record is to demonstrate the development of the the synthesiser from the first
commercially available systems in the late 1960s to the introduction of fully digital systems in the late
1980s.
This is not intended to be a comprehensive history of synthesisers. However, the listener will hopefully
gain some insight into the character of each instrument, and on a more general level experience the
evolving sound of synthesis over the years.
What you hear on each track is the pure sound of an individual instrument. No additional processing,
sequencing or effects were applied to any of the recordings, with the exception of the EMS VCS3 track which used the delay section of the EMS polysynthi. If a system was equipped with an in-built
sequencer I made use of it on the particular track, and I often used the process of recording sound-on-
sound, where a track is made up of multiple layers of the same synthesiser recorded in parallel.
To put it simply, I wanted to let the instruments speak for themselves as much as possible; to let the
instruments influence the way I composed the pieces' Ben Edwards [Benge]
Twenty Systems is the latest release from electronica artist and Expanding Records founder Benge and marks his tenth solo album. This project combines an audio CD of new music with a book containing photos and diagrams of the electronic instruments used, along with a detailed history documenting the development of synthesisers between 1968 and 1988. The foreword is written by Robin Rimbaud [aka Scanner].
‘A BRILLIANT CONTRIBUTION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC’ Brian Eno.
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Hope you're ok! We're really exited to listen to your version of "la bibliothèque"... Anyway, we'll come for the last time in the UK early November. Hope to see you around, Thomas
Thanks for the nice message! It's really good, what you're doing.
My god, I'd love to come to your studio for a day...but I bet I'm not the only one...
You know, I've been trying to find a VCS3 for a few years now. I can't work out if EMS have closed/stopped making them or not - I know that they were in the late 1990s, but I also note that their web page hasn't been updated since then either - so I assume they're inoperative...nothing else really sounds quite like that synth. It's on so many records that I love...'Rubycon', 'Dark Side', 'Another Green World'....
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