Moog (on topic, too...)

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Sat Jul 25 21:04:49 1998

On 26 Jul 98 at 15:04, Zane H. Healy wrote:

> > Zane, is your record from Norlin Company? If so, it is the (quite
>
> Nope, it's "The Synthesizer, Featuring Dick Hyman at The Moog", from
> Command (ABC Records) 1973.
>
 I also have a Dick Hyman MOOG record subtitled " The Electric Eclectics of
Dick Hyman" Command 983. Is that the same one ? He was more noted for
his jazz-tinged piano. Quite an excellent player. Most people would be more
aware of the "Captain" from Captain and Tenille who did "Muscrat Love" and
like Stephen Stills used a Mini-Moog in performance as well as on their TV
show.
 I'm the proud owner of a Moog Prodigy which used 2 osscillators as
opposed to the 3 in the mini. Does the various sine wave conversions and the
controlled outputs, with 1 hand-wheel to control pitch and another to control
volume when in performance. The analogue synth has had a resurgence of interest
the last 4 or 5 years , since ,like tube amps , it has a more ambient(?) sound.
 Unfortunately, the adaptors to change the output to digital and hence Midi
are quite expensive. I'm still waiting to find a second hand one or a Hack in
order to hook it up to my Atari.

> > The particular instrument I am priveleged to share my studio with
> >is a Model 55 IIIC+ , and was owned by the late Paul Beaver, who used
> >it to make most of the strange sound effects for a small, obscure
> >movie in the late 70s called "Star Wars" or something like that.
>
 Never heard of it. :^)) I saw my first full Moog set-up in the early 70's in
a studio when I had a roady business. I've never been so intimidated by
hi-tech in my life. They had 2 walls of equipment with enough patch cords
to keep a "Stones" tour supplied for a year.

> I noticed that some of the sounds, were like the laser blast effects in
> Star Wars, which I found surprising as I remember watching a "Making of..."
> back in about 1980 that showed them hitting a guide wire for a radio
> antenna to get that same sound.
>
 What you didn't see on screen was likely the equipment they used to manipulate
that sound. Or the work it took to patch in that equipment.
 My son , who's a big movie and a music buff , just informed me that the guide
wire thing was done in SWII which didn't use the Moog.

> > ObCLASSICCMP: One of my intentions for at least one of my PDP11
> >systems is to interface it to my Moog, and obtain an old copy of
> >Csound or the like.. to recreate an exact environment from the
> >'childhood' of electronic music.
>
  Wow ! I'm impressed . If I ever get down Cal way I'd love to see it.
Damn ! Does this mean I have to get into mini's now ? You DEC people are
insidious.
.
> This must be what I was thinking of, I thought I remembered the Moog having
> something to do with the PDP11.
>
> Zane
 This thread inspired me enough to dig out this record. I'm listening to
Hyman's "Topless Dancers of Corfu " at this instant. Listening to it does
remind me of the "S-Wars" sound Track. I hadn't realized it was done on a
Moog. Did Paul Beaver also do some of the music ?

 ciao larry


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Received on Sat Jul 25 1998 - 21:04:49 BST