Re: [microsound] past ghosts

["je_t'aime@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <je_t'aime@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The only thing I can tell you is that I'd be careful with (relatively)
> recent Subotnick pieces... I've heard one (don't remember the name... was it
> "Return" or "The Key to Songs"?) that sounded like a very bad MIDI
> experiment... Really dreadful. I thought it was a shame because I liked his
> early stuff (Silver Apples, Wild Bull).

for those early electronic pioneers who started in the 50s
with synthesizers the size of an average manhattan apartment,
70s "innovations" like the DX-7 seemed like a gift from the gods...
which they mistook for an actual musical instrument.