September 20, 2002
Moog Music: A New Book Evokes the Early Days of Electronica
THE WELL-TEMPERED OSCILLATOR: At a recording studio in Los Angeles in 1967, an engineer was demonstrating the musical potential of a strange new contraption called the "synthesizer" to members of the Doors. Jim Morrison, the band's singer, became enthusiastic about one tone in particular. He wanted the engineer to go back to "that crystalline sound ... the sound of broken glass falling from the void into creation." The machine resembled the mating of a piano with an old-fashioned
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