From: sandell@chowning.CNMAT.Berkeley.EDU (Gregory J. Sandell)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: A CD (educational) by Wendy Carlos you should really listen to!
Date: 31 Aug 1992 17:18:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <1992Aug28.145554.1808@atux01.att.com> jlc@atux01.att.com  
(Jim Collymore) writes:
> 
> by Wendy Carlos and it is called:  "SECRETS OF SYNTHESIS."
> 
> The great thing is is that she uses excerpts from many of her  
albums to let you
> HEAR the point.  Even down to hearing the individual parts/tracks  
in some cases,

I have to agree that this is an exceptional album in that it is a  
remarkable exegesis of one composer/arranger's working methods.  I  
found it hard to listen to in other aspects, though.  There are a  
number of times I felt like I was listening to a used car salesperson  
and that I wasn't the fool customer she took me for.  When she tries  
to make the point that natural orchestral instrument sounds are  
highly complex sonic events that cannot be easily modelled with  
simple synth patches, she uses artificial syntheses to demonstrate  
these instruments!  I was appalled when I heard her say, "for  
instance, listen to a trumpet" and then play a mediocre DX-7 quality  
synthesized trumpet!


--
Greg Sandell
Research Fellow, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
sandell@cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu


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