MUSIC246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Rca Mark Ii Sound Synthesizer, Remote Control Productions, Hans Zimmer
28 Aug 2015
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Electronic instruments nothing new: rosza and the theramin. By the 1950s electronic music had become an important part of musical modernism. Forbidden planet (1956: all electronic score, louis and bebe barron, increasing interest in the avant garde, no clear conventions for the audience to read. By the end of the 1960s, smaller modular synthesizers were replacing earlier, larger models. Switched on bach (1968) album popularized the synthesizer in popular culture: walter/wendy carlos (1939-) Conventional composers also exploring the use of synthesizers. Score was performed by a group of keyboardists/ synthesists. Much of the music plays to the amish element of the plot . Passacaglia: variations over a repeating bass line. (kind of like the christmas canon notes) Synths pretending to be an orchestra -the modern hiding with the old, like in the. Lm where the modern main character is hiding within an amish community.
