Remember this book? Some scans of the content are up! Click here for them courtesy of Adamo W .Jr. II."Due to popular demand, I've scanned a few pages out of this classic book, I stumbled across in my last visit to India. I saw the cover and thought it was simply irresistable.
It's obvious that the Indian conception of this instrument is a complete 170 from how any western musician would see it. This is from another planet, albeit very serious. There's no intention to offend anyone here, but this stuff in my view is simply hysterical.
It was difficult to select the pages to scan here, but there's some true gold here.
Enjoy!"
Update via heliospace in the comments:
"I don't think it's a 170. Knowing that many Indians are not educated the same way we are here, I think those pages describing how a synth works and such are in good detail for those who are unable to follow technology to its fullest.
I have a friend, assistant professor at the UMN who has done extensive research on Goa, India particularly and I highly recommend his book: "Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race"
It talks about white people and their influence on India, particularly the area in and around Goa. It's non-biased and mostly based off of supported evidence. A great read if anybody reading this cares at all about that culture, the electronic music scene and where a lot of EDM styles came from...or were being created before they made it to the states ;)
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I don't think it's a 170. Knowing that many Indians are not educated the same way we are here, I think those pages describing how a synth works and such are in good detail for those who are unable to follow technology to its fullest.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend, assistant professor at the UMN who has done extensive research on Goa, India particularly and I highly recommend his book: "Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race"
It talks about white people and their influence on India, particularly the area in and around Goa. It's non-biased and mostly based off of supported evidence. A great read if anybody reading this cares at all about that culture, the electronic music scene and where a lot of EDM styles came from...or were being created before they made it to the states ;)
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Adamo, thanks a lot for sharing this masterpiece in musical education. It is absolutely hillarious. One awesome quote after the other!
ReplyDeleteAnd you have to love the fact that in the same way that the word Moog for many westerners has been synonymous with synthesizer, for them (in India) it is Casio. We also learn that Casio indeed invented the synthesizer, and later Roland and Korg followed.
And how about this one: "...but you can not sing while playing on a electric guitar". This book is an absolute classic. (But in our part of the world perhaps not in the way the author had imagined...)
Definitely a must-read! Thanks.
"In 20th century two revolutions were made in the world. First was the space-crafts made by U.S.S.R. and U.S.A. those gone upto the moon. The second revolution was making of synthesizer, with a brand name of Casio by Japan."
ReplyDeleteFantastic! Thanks very much for taking the time to scan and post more of this.
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ya know, when there were just Mono-Tymbral OB-8s and Juno 106s and DX 7s (ok you could fake some multi sounding patches) a Casio CZ 101 could receive on 4 different MIDI channels and use 4 different patches, for the price, I thought that was unbeatable...
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