[LAU] Tangerine Dream

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Sun Feb 7 07:19:40 EST 2010


Hallo,
lanas hat gesagt: // lanas wrote:

> That's not it I think.  Using a sequencer for that is like painting the
> Mona Lisa by number.  Tangerine Dream surely have used some sequencers
> but a large part of their work resided in the capability to modify in
> real time what sound like 'sequences' by turning knobs and plugging
> wires as sounds were made.  As such, it was really a performance, more
> than we could think in general.  So I think rather they were using
> complex arpeggiators.  Today we can listen to that and write it down in
> a MIDI file, but that's not what I'm looking for.

The modern equivalent to what you describe could be live coding in Pd,
SuperCollider etc., e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zKzxqN5mUI or
http://vimeo.com/5272693

Ciao
-- 
Frank


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