How Far We've Come
While watching this footage of the 1987 Bowie Glass Spider tour, I realized how terrible synths were in the mid to late 80s, with that horrible flutey preset used with MIDI controllers. In retrospect everything sounded crude or provisional. But I'm sure it will all have nostalgic value at some point.
Here's a quite comprehensive chronicle of synths by Philip Glass's Director Michael Riesman.
"When I joined, the keyboards consisted of 3 Farfisa Mini-Compact organs. That was it.Over the years of my involvement, the Ensemble went through a series of migrations to new hardware."
Here's a quite comprehensive chronicle of synths by Philip Glass's Director Michael Riesman.
"When I joined, the keyboards consisted of 3 Farfisa Mini-Compact organs. That was it.Over the years of my involvement, the Ensemble went through a series of migrations to new hardware."
