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[Andy K]

What about the pioneers of electronica? Jean Michel Jarre, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream etc? Those guys were using Moogs and Korgs back in the early to mid seventies.

[Kirk Keyes]

The Yamaha DX-7 was the Kodak DCS-100 digital camera of it's day. Or perhaps the DCS-100 was the DX-7 of it's day. A landmark in the history of music, or cameras, depending on which one you're referring to.

My friend loved the DX-5 that he loaned me - it's 2 DX-7s in one keyboard. I really love the sound and feel and touch of analog synths, even ones that were hybrid - that is analog wave modifying with a digitally controlled voltage controlled oscillator. Like my Jupiter-8 - lots of knobs and sliders. It's so easy to operate, not like the DX-5. Even my not quite 2 year old likes the Jupiter-8. I've even stored a couple of really cool sounds programmed into it that she's come up with.

By the way - are any of you guys in Europe going to see Jean Michel Jarre? He's doing shows all over Europe for the next few months. I tried to talk my DX-5 friend into going to London to see JMJ play at Royal Albert Hall, but my friend could not swing it. I hear rumour that Jarre will play in New York or perhaps Los Angeles. I'm definitely going to a show in the US if he comes.

I saw Kraftwerk in 2005 - a dream come true for me. Get the DVD they made, it's really captures the feel of the shows. I never thought I would see them. Another electronic band I saw last year was The Human League, that was a lot of fun to see Philip and the girls. And I caught Gary Numan 10 years ago as well, another electronic pioneer.

[Fintan]

JMJ is in Dublin soon

[Actually Kirk I've some digi snaps of Ladytron from September last year if you want PM me]

[leeturner]

The DX7 dated very quickly and was pretty redundant once Korg launched the M1. Like Kirk I couldn't get into the FM sounds, very flat and plasticky unlike the analog synths with lovely oscillator drift.
Wait a second..... not another analog and digital debate

[Ian Tindale]

I've got a VL-70m, physical modelling synth. Photography hasn't got as far as physical modelling yet.

And on the subject of songs about photography, how about Tommy Steele's 'Flash, Bang, Wallop' - it is left as an exercise to the reader to find the lyrics themselves.

[leeturner]

Ian, I was just thinking about the Yamaha VL's yesterday (I know, it's a sad life). I used one one stage for a month when the sax player became ill. Fantastic instrument but it was easy to go a bit red in the face blowing the breath controller. Been looking for one for a while now.

[Kirk Keyes]

Physical modeling is pretty cool. As far as photography and physical modelling goes, I think the last 3 Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings movies used a lot of it in them. Think Gollum and Jar Jar.

[okto]

I've got an ARP 2600 in my attic, with the name "ROGER GLOVER" stencilled across the outside. Must get round to fixing it one day - it's only partly functioning. There's also a Korg Mono/Poly and a Roland SH-09 still up there. The Korgies got sold some years ago (the MS-20, MS-10 and SQ-10) together with my old TR-808.

You keep all that in the attic?!

...Do you want to, em, no longer have it in the attic?

also: Freezepop - Boys On Film

[Jeffrey A. Steinberg]

Talk about a timely subject, I just got American Photographer in the mail and its dedicated to "celebrities" as photographers. The one that impressed me the most was Aaron Eckhart (the biker in "Erin Brockovich"

And I was right, it mentions that B Pitt had an old Leca and that is wife bought him a 4x5 folder for his birthday.

[Ian Tindale]

Brian Adams (singer from Canada; Hope I spelled his fist name right) is quite the photographer. If memory serves, he had an exposition.

Bryan Adams.

I went round the National Portrait Gallery, near Trafalgar Square, London, GB, Earth, yesterday morning during a brief gap in my duties. He's got an exhibition there - "Modern Muses" - at the current time, and I was quite pleased to observe really serious attention to the high quality of work and what an eye he has for arrangement, lighting and presentation of the subject.

I would describe the style as "adding nothing superfluous to the essential topic; extracting what is actually there to accentuate the communicative value of the subject; encapsulating and presenting in a manner that works both immediately and over longer-term consumption of the image." and I enjoyed seeing the work.