Re: pioneers of electronic music

["S.P. Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

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From: "Richard Zvonar" <zvonar@zvonar.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 17:50:PM
Subject: Re: pioneers of electronic music


> At 10:07 AM -0600 11/18/02, jim palmer wrote:
> >seemed strange to call this thread "Is there a moderator here?"
> >anyway, you forgot raymond scott...
>
> Raymond Scott was not particularly influential. In fact, I never
> heard of him until just recently. Scott was certainly a pioneer, but
> he was so secretive about his inventions that very few people knew
> about them. A notable exception was Bob Moog, but even then Bob cites
> Don Buchla for giving him the idea for a step sequencer, even though
> Scott had invented one years before.
> --

Yipes, Doc.  Raymond Scott created probably the first step sequencer.  Bob
Moog worked with him.