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Re: pioneers of electronic music
Title: Re: pioneers of electronic
music
At 6:15 PM +0000 11/18/02, S.P. Goodman wrote:
> 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.
Well, isn't that what I said? (see above) Scott invented a lot of
things but kept his light under a bushel. And as I also said (above)
when Bob Moog was asked about his development of the Moog step
sequencer module, he said "Oh, I copped that idea from Don
Buchla." I heard him say it. He never mentioned Raymond Scott,
though he did indeed spend some time with Scott in the late
1950s.
Here's what Moog has to say about squencers, as quoted in the
wonderful book "Manhatten Research, Inc." about Raymond
Scott:
Irvin Chusid: Scott credits you with coining the term
"sequencer." Is that true?
Bob Moog: I don't think so. The first sequencer [by name]
I can remember Buchla came out with. I knew about it around 1967, but
Buchla had developed it two or three years before.
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