#synth

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments. ↗

— Robert Moog

#by the time #electronic #experience #got #had

I probably won’t play a song the same way tomorrow as I play it today. Only a pitchman says the same thing the same way twice, without varying a word. If music is a language, why don’t people use it with the same subtlety, nuance, and facility as they do the spoken language? Probably because they don’t verbalize with the same vocabulary and tone they once did. It has been said that a people’s character is reflected in their music. Our culture is a perfect example. If people here walk around using one-syllable words with no color, no variety, no shading, how can we expect our musical language to be any different? It’s like the emperor’s new clothes – sure they can sit and make wild noises on their synthesizers and call it music – who questions? But ask them to pull up a chair and play ‘Gal in Calico’ or Temptation,’ or even a straight dramatic version of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ and they can’t do it. They’re too pretentious. They can’t just play songs. ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

#music #noise #synthesizers #music

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. ↗

— Alvar Aalto

#art #bring #building #form #harmony

For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar. ↗

— Marc Almond

#acoustic #acoustic guitar #always #classic #comes

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#antagonism #dialectical #equilibrium #evil #extremes

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#panacea #poison #power #synthesis #tonic

If it's fast, no I don't have enough piano technique. In that case, it's probably been done on some kind of synthesizer or sequencer. Then the score can then be printed out and so forth. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#case #done #enough #fast #forth

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#art #light #science #spectral #synthesis

I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#got #haven #i #may #number

Well, I'm known as a guitar-rock guy, you know? You're not supposed to play with synthesizers. This is not in the rulebook. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#i #know #known #play #supposed