"I picked up an electronics book from 1980 at the sale table of my library recently. There is a section in the book entitled "Music Synthesizers" wherein I found this slightly humorous quote:
'Unlike the electric guitar, the electronic organ and the electronic piano, one does not "perform" at the keyboard of a music synthesizer. Instead, one assembles bits and fragments of musical phrases from various sources, and records them on tape. It is almost as laborious as animating a Disney cartoon.'
I guess I could understand if the book had been from 1967, but 1980!? It's like the author disregarded the whole development of synthesizers through the 1970's, let alone all the bands that effectively utilized them up to that point!
Here is the complete citation:
Houglum, R. J. (1980). Electronics: Concepts, applications, and history. Belmont, Ca.: Breton Publishers." on Amazon
Outdated or prescient? That's basically how all music is produced in this modern age of Protools.
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