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Keywords:
Analog (12), Synthesizer (39), Old (24), stuff (13), from (15), 1978 (4)
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Description:
This was recorded direct from my Micromoog Synthesizer to an 8-track Otari 1/2 analog tape recorder (back in 1978). Didn't use a click track, just improvised. The chords are all recorded one note at a time (it's a monophonic synth after all). Sound effects were also from the Micormoog (brids, wind in the trees)...did all the programming on the sounds myself, as there are no such things as presets on a synth that old :) The reverb used was the reverb module on a Moog Model III (modular). I just rediscovered this tape and was able to get the audio off it. I cleaned it up a little with Soundsoap and some stuff in Logic, but it's 99.8% the original recording.
Painting: The Fabulous MicroMoog - One Mighty Note of Emotion, by Aaron Jasinsky c2003 (http://www.aaronjasinski.com/)
Lyrics:
None
Hardware:
Micromoog Synthesizer
Software:
None at the time of recording. Remastered in Logic.
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In the Forest &mdash 03/06/08 - 05:45:53 PM
Native nature music ..this is so lovely as simple
as it is ..thnx alot for sharin such gem ! [ Reply to This ]
Cool! &mdash 03/06/08 - 05:48:55 PM
It's fun to dig up old stuff. You did this about the time I was doing my stuff (posted) and much of it was on 4 track tape. We had a dokoder (I think that was how it was spelled). [ Reply to This ]
This wasn't easy... &mdash 03/06/08 - 07:22:32 PM
I'm amazed by what you did with a non-programmable monophonic synth, Graham. Having owned a couple of them, and also having been young once myself, I consider what you did here a remarkable achievement.
Glad you stumbled on this old tape... [ Reply to This ]
Moogy &mdash 03/06/08 - 08:44:37 PM
Love the old school synth. Rich beautiful sounds. Every note a treat.
Thanks
Bill [ Reply to This ]
Very cool track &mdash 03/06/08 - 09:24:09 PM
thanks for posting. I wish I could find some of my tapes from that time. I took a class around then at a studio that had a few Buchlas. Later I got a Sequential Circuits Pro One that I still play today. You really had a lot of patience to build this piece - it sounds great. [ Reply to This ]
wow &mdash 03/06/08 - 10:15:50 PM
This is brilliantly impressive what you have accomplished having recorded one not at a time, and its music like to the playlist I play every day. What a great song, and i love the birds and nature in the background. [ Reply to This ]
WOW &mdash 03/06/08 - 10:23:57 PM
I'm totally amazed you did this in '78 with a monophonic synthesizer. It's so cool you found this and were able to get it into hearing order. Why don't you take this and add a 2008 layer? (Or not - it's perfect as is) Thanks! [ Reply to This ]
With Due respect to Magnatone &mdash 03/06/08 - 10:43:46 PM
Unlike Magnatone, I am NOT amazed you did this with the gear you had in 1978. There was a lot of capability with analog gear from that era if the user was imaginative capable ... which you clearly were.
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I love old tapes... &mdash 03/07/08 - 07:03:05 AM
...from back in the day when we would DREAM of having gear that would do a fraction of what GarageBand (not to mention Logic) can now do...
This has a lovely, meditative, thoughtful feel to it...
Ed [ Reply to This ]
In the Forest &mdash 03/07/08 - 07:44:11 AM
Excellent electronical ambient composition. Wonderful soundwork, I dig this old stuff, too. Amazing! [ Reply to This ]
More than this little Piece Deserves! &mdash 03/07/08 - 09:51:13 AM
I thank you all for your kind comments. I will let my poor little non-functional Micromoog how much he is appreciated! It must finally be time to take him in for that long-overdue diagnosis and overhaul and see if we can't bring back his spark of life. Thanks again all for listening.
--Graham [ Reply to This ]
Mighty cool . . . &mdash 03/07/08 - 09:54:58 AM
I can't imagine actually having to play the music I pencil tool. This is really smooth, well played ambient. Nicely done on the programming, performance, and remastering.
-g [ Reply to This ]
Shine on, you crazy MOOG diamond &mdash 03/07/08 - 10:12:17 AM
This feels a teeny bit like a more upbeat New Age version of the opening of Pink Floyd's great album "Wish you were Here"... excellent improv playing and programming, and well worth saving from magnetic entropy! Ahhh... thank you!
ttfn,
Drakonis [ Reply to This ]
In the Forest &mdash 03/07/08 - 10:40:55 AM
Really good sounds for 1978 no? I suppose in some ways technology has come along ways in that time, and in other ways, it's hasn't! Well done. [ Reply to This ]
I think &mdash 03/07/08 - 03:05:18 PM
Patrick said it best. remarkable when you consider the tech involved (or not :-). Subtle, nourishing and truly ambient. Having been befuddled by said same synth I am in awe. Its got a far east flavor at times that make me think of cherry blossoms gently floating down on a spring day. [ Reply to This ]
I can feel spring &mdash 03/08/08 - 04:42:27 AM
Very nice post I really like the feelings I get from this tune... Good composing. A lovely song. [ Reply to This ]
great tune! &mdash 03/10/08 - 10:44:30 AM
i really like this, sounds like a lot of work went into it! glad you dug this one up...reminds me of floyd in the backing parts. really dig it! oh, and i LOVE the painting you put up for this...awesome!
age
-sons of hypnos [ Reply to This ]
Peaceful &mdash 03/11/08 - 02:27:42 PM
Nice peaceful song... I like hearing it..... Good warm sound on this.... Great one... [ Reply to This ]
sonic bird call &mdash 03/11/08 - 06:30:42 PM
you know what I love is the fact that you can hear the warmth in the tape recording.. That is truly lost. I love the Moog I bought one in 84 played with it night and day then traded it back at Sam Ash on 54th street in manhattan for a bass. Sometime I wish I still had it. This brought back memories thanks for sharing. [ Reply to This ]
Simply lovely. &mdash 03/17/08 - 01:08:34 AM
HI
Oh this was very beautiful took my breath away. Very dreamy and imaginatively thought provoking.
Well done. Thanks for the link.
Peace Dee [ Reply to This ]
TONTO &mdash 03/17/08 - 11:44:39 PM
there was a REALLY Obscure band that used an ARP 2500
at Mizzou-U Columbia, MO. circa 1971 ? ~ called "Tonto's Expanding Headband" this kinda' reminds me of that ! AWSOME.! [ Reply to This ]
Environmental &mdash 04/01/08 - 04:48:43 PM
There was so much that could be expressed with these 'early' synths (I actually have a record from my dad of the RCA Victor Music Synthesizer from the 1950s that was the size of a small room and was really early, so by the '70s this was comparatively leading edge :o)
Nice improvisation, free flowing and natural. All the components to the soundbed are tastefully put together - -and in those days the re-recording was a lot of work. I'm not sure if I would have had the patience.
Lovely to hear this. Thanks for dusting it off!
Be well,
Doug [ Reply to This ]
That's rich! &mdash 05/06/08 - 08:27:08 AM
Great sounds. There's something to be said for real analog rather than emulated virtual analog.
Sweet piece of music too. Thanks for reviving it.
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wow &mdash 05/27/08 - 06:47:36 PM
Cool.. &mdash 06/11/08 - 05:18:43 PM
very cool &mdash 06/24/08 - 04:07:53 PM
yay, anaolgue! love it! i can appreciate all the hard work that must have gone into recording this. (and can only imagine how long it took to program the sounds!) fantastic blast from the past. thanks for sharing. [ Reply to This ]
Thanks all &mdash 06/26/08 - 11:29:42 AM
for your comments. Funny how the old stuff is still well appreciated. Guess I gotta get my lil MM fixed one of these days! [ Reply to This ]
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as it is ..thnx alot for sharin such gem !
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