Click here for more info (in Japanese) and shots of a Tomita MOOG Seminar. Here is a Google translated link.
"冨 rice field teacher crossing many ten years, MOOG which is pursued. There are also circumstances of time, as for the part where this time you talked is just portion in the midst of experience of the enormous quantity which 冨 rice field teacher has, but it is possible to mention the possibility MOOG where various new expressions become possible with device circumstance having you could point to the very much good experience. Everyone of the staff, and the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music student participating to the latest seminar lastly the mark souvenir picture was photographed, but it seemed that has the deep reflection in music of everyone MOOG and 冨 rice field teacher."
Gotta love Google translation. The point of this post is there is a seminar on synths in Japan with non other than legendary synth artist Isao Tomita. I wonder if there are any in other countries. If you know feel free to comment.
argggh, i would have killed to be there
ReplyDeleteto me, tomita is really the most impressive synth programmer ever
i've listened to his version of planets looped years ago, and keep thinking even now "how could he do that ???" (even nowadays with all sequencer/automations facilities we have, i don't know how could i start working on such projects....)
"冨 rice field" in the quote is "Tomita," the google translator didn't recognise person name :c)
ReplyDeleteah, and remove "teacher" as well since it doesn't make sense in English.. well, it's alright it's machine translation :)
ReplyDeletehe didn't use LFO's and VCO's. He used POO's (planetary orbiting oscillators).
ReplyDeleteThese oscillators ran out on a special non-renewable type of yellow electricity that grew in Japan in the 50's. Unfortunately, aggressive energy farming (the same that created Godzilla) used up almost all the reserves.
Now, only the twelve richest kings of Europe can afford to run their computers with the stuff.
田 literally means rice field. It's a kanji that actually looks like what it means... but of course it could also be a name, which in this case it is.
ReplyDeleteUmm why remove "teacher"? It's more or less saying "Professor Tomita has spent decades with the Moog." .
I never really found out the exact details though I once met someone who took a course with day to day teaching with other instructors and then he did a one on one critique with each student as the course finale.
It wasn't a general seminar on synths, it seems to be a demo of the Moog IIIC the school just had restored where he explained how he worked with it. Then he segues into his current work with mixing in surround using Nuendo and how he can even further spatialize his Moog sounds.
Umm, as for holding your breath for him to drop by and lecture, if google is all you have to translate with, be aware that Tomita-san speaks no English.
http://technopop.info/syn/youknow.jpg
Q: What lunchtime snack tastes like a Moog?
ReplyDeleteA: Campbell's Tomita Soup!