On Wednesday 31 May 2006 13:52, Paul Davis was like: > On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 11:40 +0100, tim hall wrote: > > It's hard to listen to a cover of this song as the original has such a > > peculiar numinous quality that has little to do with the notes played. > > This is how Tim Blake would do it I guess. I was looking forward to a bit > > more > > whoa! did somebody just say Tim Blake? Crystal Machine!! Cosmic Eggs! > VCS3's! make that ARP2600 twinkle! woohoo! !-) I have still never heard anything that comes close to those filters. I confess to being a big fan of resonant filter sweeps. You can blame Blakey for that. OK, and Basil & Tom Brooks, Gwyo, Gavin "da Blitz" and Joie Hinton too. > seriously though, "New Jerusalem" is a standout of its genre. whatever > its genre actually is :) New-age synth music, really. I regard him as one of the original synth pioneers along with Tangerine Dream and the BBC radiophonic workshop. I can report that he is miraculously still alive, he came and played at my venue last year, So I actually got to see Tim Blake play _in_ New Jerusalem, which was nice. ;) We had something like 3 VCS3's in the building and one of the original synthi100's on that day (not all his I might add). Tim's set included a cover of "Spirit of the Age" - Yves reworking of Astronomy Domine reminded me of this in approach. -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim We are the people We've been waiting for.
