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unusual facts about synthesizer



54 Seconds

Consisting of Spencer Gibb on vocals and guitar, J. J. Johnson on drums and vocals, Stewart Cochran on piano, synthesizer, keyboard and vocals and Glenn McGregor on bass.

African Americans in Atlanta

Producer Fatboi called the Roland TR-808 ("808") synthesizer "central" to Atlanta music's versatility, used for snap, crunk, trap, and pop rap styles.

Airut:aamujen

Airut:aamujen ("The Harbinger of Dawns" in Finnish) differs from other Tenhi albums by being nearly entirely played on merely piano, bass and drums (acoustic guitar and synthesizer make only brief and subtle appearances and are not even mentioned in the booklet).

Articulatory synthesis

The first software articulatory synthesizer regularly used for laboratory experiments was developed at Haskins Laboratories in the mid-1970s by Philip Rubin, Tom Baer, and Paul Mermelstein.

Bone Symphony

The group consisted of Scott Wilk on lead vocals and synthesizer, Marc Levinthal (guitar, bass synthesizer and sequencer, drum machine, 808 programming) and keyboard artist Jacob Magnusson (Iceland).

Born to Mack

This album features sexually explicit lyrics over strong Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 synthesizer bass lines and Roland TR-808 drum programming.

Break the Safe

Once they do so, the keys are turned in the slot and the game is won (you will hear the sound of the four keys followed by a Moog synthesizer version of the 1812 Overture).

Buchla Electronic Musical Instruments

Buchla's beginning in synthesizer design was the result of a San Francisco Tape Music Center commission by composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick, along with a $500 grant from Rockefeller Foundation.

Campfire Songs: The Popular, Obscure and Unknown Recordings

Robert Buck - guitars, mandolin, steel, banjo, devices, synthesizer

Chance of a Start

Two songs by Ewan MacColl, "Freeborn Man of the Traveling People" and "The Shoals of Herring", are given modern arrangements, featuring piano and synthesizer as well as more typical instruments such as guitar and fiddle.

Chocolate Synthesizer

Chocolate Synthesizer (チョコレート・シンセサイザー (Chokorēto Shinsesaizā)) is the fourth full-length album by Japanese noise rock band Boredoms, released in 1994 by WEA Japan and Reprise Records and in 2004 on Very Friendly Records.

Composer-Tron

This invention was one of the first major steps that combined the producing efforts of the RCA Synthesizer, by Harry Olsen and Hebert Belar with the Marconi Company of America.

Darrin Huss

Then inspired by bands such as P.I.L., Cabaret Voltaire, and The Flying Lizards they began recording odd songs together, and with the purchase of a synthesizer slowly became more electronic.

David Rosenboom

Working with Don Buchla, he was one of the first composers to use a digital synthesizer.

Gekokujō Xstasy

The stage setting imitated an operating room, and an ECG Monitor or an anatomical model of the human body, etc. were arranged on the stage, and the synthesizer and the drum set were laid on operating tables.

Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project Mirai

Like the original the game primarily makes use of Vocaloids, a series of singing synthesizer software, and the songs created using these vocaloids most notably the virtual-diva Vocaloid Hatsune Miku.

Hideki Matsutake

Matsutake was grabbed by the playback of Wendy Carlos's Switched-On Bach using a synthesizer and a computer at the American Pavilion of Expo '70 in Osaka.

I Don't Wanna Fight

Featuring a wistful but resolute vocal set against a melodic synthesizer line, the track was a substantial hit on both sides of the Atlantic, reaching number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as number seven on the UK Singles Chart.

Ikinari Musician

Ikinari Musician provides a piano-like keyboard, a treble clef on the staff to show note location, a 5-channel Backing track, 4 timbre choices, and controllers to manipulate common synthesizer parameters such as release and attack, LFO, etc.

Java Speech API

While the Java Speech API 1 relied on the Java Speech API Markup Language (JSML), the newer release utilizes SSML to provide many ways for you to improve the output quality of a speech synthesizer.

Jimmy Giuffre

A later group included Pete Levin playing synthesizer and replaced Tokunaga with electric bassist Bob Nieske.

Kazna Za Uši

The nine songs which appeared on the album featured guests appearances by Boris Krstajić on synthesizer, Branko Kosar on keyboards, and Marijana Nešić, Nikola Đuričko, Boris Milivojević and Nikola Pejak on backing vocals.

Kurt Dahlke

On stage Dahlke operates his computer/synthesizer hardware by the movement or the pressure of the hands, with Thunder and Lightning II" two controllers built by Don Buchla.

Kurzwellen

The Negative Band (Michael Fink, percussion; Earl Howard, alto saxophone; Denman Maroney, piano; David Simons, percussion; Joseph Paul Taylor, synthesizer; Jonathan Weisberger, filter and sound direction).

Malcolm Cecil

He later joined Robert Margouleff to form the duo TONTO's Expanding Head Band, a project based around a unique combination of synthesizers which led to them collaborating on and co-producing several of Stevie Wonder's Grammy-winning albums of the early 70s.

Maxime de la Rochefoucauld

The signal, in the range of 1-10 Hz, is most often generated on a synthesizer and prerecorded, but may be played live or be generated from other electrical sources.

Moog Music

This company would eventually become Moog Music in 1972, and through Bob Moog's collaboration with people like Herbert Deutsch, Moog Music produced some of the most popular synthesizers of all time.

Nandalal Bose

Like Raphael Nandalal was a great synthesizer, his originality lay in his ability to marshal discrete ideas drawn from Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, E. B. Havell, Ananda Coomaraswamy, Okakura Kakuzo and Mahatma Gandhi into a unique and unified programme for the creation of a new art movement in India.

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

The album was created on a very low budget; it was supposedly recorded almost entirely with a Revox tape recorder, a borrowed Roland drum machine belonging to Kit Hain, a small, preset Roland bass synthesizer, and an NED Synclavier, belonging to producer Mike Thorne.

OASYS

Korg OASYS, a workstation synthesizer released in early 2005

Pierluigi Giombini

It was Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach records that inspired him to study and create the synth sounds that he later used on his hit records in the 1980s.

Robert Rental

Another distinctive sound that Rental used was that of the EDP Wasp Synthesizer, which he introduced to Chris Carter of Throbbing Gristle and William Bennett of Whitehouse.

Rondò Veneziano

Rondò Veneziano is an Italian chamber orchestra, specializing in Baroque music, playing original instruments, but incorporating a rock-style rhythm section of synthesizer, bass guitar and drums, led by Maestro Gian Piero Reverberi, who is also the principal composer of all of the original Rondo Veneziano pieces.

Sandin Image Processor

The Sandin Image Processor is a video synthesizer, usually introduced as the "video equivalent of a Moog audio synthesizer," invented by Dan Sandin.

Serge synthesizer

The Serge synthesizer (aka Serge Modular or Serge Modular Music System) is an analogue modular synthesizer system originally developed by Serge Tcherepnin at CalArts in the 1970s.

Slow Traffic to the Right

Bennie Maupin - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, saxello, piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass clarinet, Oberheim Polyphonic synthesizer, background vocals

Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris

An electronic version on a Fairlight synthesizer was used in the soundtrack of the 1982 film "Liquid Sky".

Synare

The Synare was a drum synthesizer, meaning it was essentially a synthesizer, but instead of being controlled by a keyboard, it was triggered by hitting rubber pads which were pressure-sensitive.

Terry Riley

Riley's famous overdubbed electronic album A Rainbow in Curved Air (recorded 1968, released 1969) inspired many later developments in electronic music, including Pete Townshend's synthesizer parts on The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley", the latter named in tribute to Riley as well as to Meher Baba.

The Moog Cookbook

The liner notes from their first album proudly proclaims "No MIDI" to demonstrate that they played things by hand, rather than using computer sequencing, which is common for synthesizer music.

Time Is the Key

Hansford Rowe – bass (3-11), acoustic guitar (5), bass synthesizer (11)

TV Eye Live 1977

Scott Thurston: guitar, piano, harmonica, synthesizer (on tracks 3, 4, 5 & 7)

Vital Information

Dean Brown – electric and acoustic guitars, synthesizer guitar, piano from space

We Are Glass

The B-side was one of Numan's few non-original pieces, the first movement of Erik Satie's "Trois Gymnopedies," in an arrangement that added guitar, bass and synthesizer to the original's solo piano part.

Xpander

The track is in some ways a tribute to the Oberheim Xpander synthesizer, which is the main synthesizer used in the track.

Year of the Spider

Deborah Lurie - conductor, string arrangements, synthesizer strings


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