Re: [AH] Mark Bell/ Varley/ LFO Synth Tricks

From Andrew Horton
Sent Wed, Dec 5th 2018, 19:33

Can you link some examples of what you're talking about? I'd love to
hear him. Anything I've heard out of the guy sounds like a simple
thudding 808 and a farting monosynth.
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 2:08 PM Royce Lee <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:
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> Hi AH
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> It would seem that much as composers live on through their scores, electr=
onic musicians could be remembered for their approaches to sound design and=
 arrangement.
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> I've found very little documentation of Advance and Sheath era production=
, while probably more than enough discussion of Frequencies. I come across =
some general description of approach with his work with Bjork, but these di=
scussions are usually lacking detail.  Although I understand that Frequenci=
es was conceptually arresting, I find that some of the technique in Advance=
 remains out of reach of even contemporary electronic music, despite the de=
mocratization of what once was esoteric gear.
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> Any pointers to discussions, articles on this era of Mark Bell would be v=
aluable to me and probably the archives as well!
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> What little I've learned online has already proved valuable, such as disc=
overing the Casio FZ filter. I find that even with that, I'm missing someth=
ing that Mark Bell had mastery of.
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> Royce
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