OT - Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research Inc.

[Stiiv]

This 2-CD set, with excellent little hardcover book, is worth every
penny. The book features interviews with Robert Moog, Mitzi Scott
(RS's last wife), & others....repros of patent applications, circuit
diagrams, MRI stationary & ads, etc., & lots of pics of the man
himself. Hearing Scott's commercial compositions is a revelation; he
wasn't selling out, he was just SELLING the future of music to anyone
who'd buy. Anyone in this ng who sees the pics of Scott's original
"Wall of Sound" from the '50's & doesn't get a retro-futuristic chill
up the spine, well, I just don't know aboutcha, kid. The book was
edited by the venerable Irwin Chusid.

BUY THIS ALBUM.

samples at www.raymondscott.com

Jeff Winner, who runs the Scott site & co-produced MRI, is a great guy
who works very hard to bring the word about Scott to the masses. He's
going to Amsterdam this summer to work on the "sequel" with Dutch
Scott-enthusiast & MRI co-producer Gert-Jan Blom.

Stiiv
http://www.stiiv.com

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Post by Stiiv
This 2-CD set, with excellent little hardcover book, is worth every
penny.

What Stiiv said. This was KRAFTWERK/NEGATIVELAND/RESIDENTS/etc. in the
1940s/1950s, years before DEVO was even toddling. Hardcore synthesis
before MOOG did it. Blips, blops, and bloops, nicely syncopated. Check
out the
samples at the site Stiiv posted. It's like technology was
retroactively inserted.


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www.frankpanucci.com

[Bobbit]

Very cool site.

The Clavivox looks sort of like a proto-micro-minimoog, which I guess
it actually sort of was. There are even mod wheel precursor things to
the left of the keyboard.

(I wish the Voyager had more than 1 mod wheel, but this is the wrong
forum for going into that...)

[Pink Pussycat]

*looks at Clavivox page*

It looks like a Model A Minimoog. :-)

~Pink