{"id":6473,"date":"2013-04-15T14:26:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T05:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2013-04-15T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T05:27:21","slug":"look-with-this-synthesizer-you-can-create-more-than-just-a-low-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/04\/15\/look-with-this-synthesizer-you-can-create-more-than-just-a-low-note\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Look, with this synthesizer you can create more than just a low note.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, in the course of some trainspotting research into the minutiae of whatever Moog set-up Moroder used on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C2q2bis6eLE\">his seminal basslines<\/a><sup class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote \" data-mfn=\"1\" data-mfn-post-scope=\"00000000000002d50000000000000000_6473\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"  role=\"button\" aria-pressed=\"false\" aria-describedby=\"mfn-content-00000000000002d50000000000000000_6473-1\">1<\/a><\/sup><span id=\"mfn-content-00000000000002d50000000000000000_6473-1\" role=\"tooltip\" class=\"modern-footnotes-footnote__note\" tabindex=\"0\" data-mfn=\"1\">I know: I have fascinating hobbies<\/span>, I happened upon this hilarious description of Moroder&#8217;s first introduction to the wonders of electronic synthesizers (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn 1970, an engineer I knew, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/Robby+Wedel\">Robbie<\/a>, introduced me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eberhard_Schoener\">classical composer in Munich<\/a> who had this incredible new instrument. <\/p>\n<p>It was a humongous machine with cords everywhere, and he played me this composition which just consisted of a bass tone that kept changing every half minute. That was his composition! He was using this huge machine to create what was known as \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musique_concr\u00e8te\">musique concrete<\/a>\u2019. <\/p>\n<p><strong>There were no rhythms, no effects, and it wasn\u2019t too interesting<\/strong>, but then, when he wasn\u2019t around, Robbie took me aside and said, <strong>\u2018Look, with this synthesizer you can create more than just a low note.\u2019<\/strong> He showed me a few things and I thought, \u2018Wow, this is great!\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having suffered through my fair share of unbearably tedious <em>musique concr\u00e8te<\/em> performances over the years, I can only marvel at the unlikely musical result of that encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, in the course of some trainspotting research into the minutiae of whatever Moog set-up Moroder used on his seminal basslines, I happened upon this hilarious description of Moroder&#8217;s first introduction to the wonders of electronic synthesizers (emphasis mine): \u201cIn 1970, an engineer I knew, called Robbie, introduced me to a classical composer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6479,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}