ELLIOTT FISHER

Our fascination with electronic music began in the 60s. And of course the Moog synthesizer would become very common in the late 60s. So here's a guy who made that kind of space age music with a violin. Elliott Fisher was a session musician and arranger. In 1966, he recorded an album of secret agent themes. Fisher is from Philadelphia. He was a concert violinist for the first part of his career. He was a professor of music at Denver University and leader of the Busch Chamber Orchestra. But then his career took a swerve when film composer Paul Sawtell asked Fisher to create spooky sounds for the 1957 alien robot movie Kronos. This was before the creation of the moog synthesizer. Fisher used his violin to create these sounds. In he 60s, he became a go to guy for spooky sounds for TV or movies. Fisher also played violin read more...