Education with synths began in the early 70s. I bought an EMS Putney http://www.ems-synthi.demon.co.uk/emsstory.html
from my kids' Junior High. It hadn't been turned on in probably 20 years when I spotted it. I also remember an 'Artist In the Schoo' program who brought in an EMS Synthi (the suitcase model, with a sequencery/touch keyboard) and spent an afternoon showing us how to mess with it.That was in 1973 or 1974 ... pretty wicked considering people had only had since 1967 or so to get used to the idea of synthesizers, what with the appearance on the Beatles' Sgt Peppers and Switched On Bach. On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 19:06:56 -0400 (EDT), Lester Kenyatta Spence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > My high school used to offer classes in electronic music. This was back > > in.............oh, 1986. > > We used Sequential Circuit Pro One synths and recorded to 4 track > > reel-to-reel. Learned all about FM synthesis. > > Best class in high school ever. > > > > I doubt they still offer it. > > wow. that's got to be the earliest i've heard of something like that. > > but if you want the youngsters to get it, you've got to go with the kids. > > Apple is doing something very very similar with the ipods. Folks even MY > age are very reluctant to switch. They are a lost cause. > > Give the kids ipods...and they're going to want the laptops...then they'll > want the desktops. they've already seen a significant spike in their > laptop purchases. > > Building a market for electronic music, or even for Leftist/Progressive > politics, will take the same type of thing. > > peace > lks >
