8 Performance
8.1 Synthesis live
The live reworking of sound has evolved from the playback of simple pre-recorded sequences, through ‘scratching’ LPs, to sophisticated performances. In the process, sound synthesis and sampling have moved from a ‘back-room’ activity that happened slowly and meticulously, to an interactive improvised performance. Both extremes still exist: the ‘studio album’ may still take years of careful, painstaking, detailed assembly; but when used in performance, the technology has increasingly been used for much more transitory and immediate material.
8.1.1 The rise and fall of keyboard stacks
When synthesizers were room sized, then the synthesist went to the synthesizer. This is analogous to the conductor going to the ...
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