Pierre Henry on Chroniques de la Mao

Click the image for a bigger shot. That is one interesting piece of equipment. Title link takes you to the post on Chroniques de la Mao, translated to English here. You can find more on Pierre Henry on Wikipedia (translated).

Salvatore Martirano on Chroniques de la Mao

Click here for a post on Salvatore Martirano on Chroniques de la Mao. "I have just put on my blog an astonishing machine of Salvatore Martirano - American composer born on January 12, 1927 in Yonkers, New York, dead on November 17, 1995 - which I had taken in photograph in 1981 at the time of the international festival of Electronic Music, Video and Computer Art" The post includes an mp3 link, more shots and a link to The SAL-MAR Construction. Fascinating stuff. BTW, you might recognize the SAL-MAR Construction from this post.

Update via deb7680:

"Thanks Matrix. Attention, the MP3 is not Salvatore Martirano but duet HplanK with synths (RSF and Ems Synthi Aks), guitar and computers (Apple II and first IBM PC) which I created in 1981. I evoked Hplank because it is the festival of the Plan K in Brussels which gave me the idea of the name of HplanK.
For the meetings, since 1971, I work in the arts centres and as a critic musical in the newspapers. It is my work. I was likely to meet a great number of composers, Pierre Boulez, Xénakis, Pierre Henry Morton Subotnick, musicians like John Mc Laughlin, David Murray, Soft Machine, Cure, Jean-Luc Ponty, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, etc...
See this : http://www.deb7680.com/documentation/pierrehenry.pdf"

BTW, if you haven't already, check out Chroniques de la Mao for a lot more on these subjects.

Chroniques de la Mao

Title link takes you to a French blog by deb7680 with quite a bit of synth coverage including an interview with a Pierre Henry (I beleive that is his gear in this shot). Time to break out the translation tool again. I also see Matrixsynth on the blog roll. : )

Electronic Musician Spotlights

Title link takes you to Electronic Musician's Spotlights page. EM Spotlights are articles on featured people. There's a bit of synth content worth checking out including analog conent on Steve Roach and Wendy Carlos. Via Peter Grenader of Buzzclick Music on AH.


The list includes:

Steve Roach
Wendy Carlos
Negativland
Malcolm Burn (String Cheese Incident)
Yoko Ono
Pierre Shaeffer & Pierre Henry - pioneers in sampling
Toby Marks (Banco de Gaia)
Tim Pagnotta
Roger McGuinn
Laurie Anderson
John Cage
Phillip Glass