Asimov and Classic Traveller influence

[kafka47]

When do things get archived so that I can listen to the entire series at my leasure...as without a TARDIS, I fear I would be late for work.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/sunday/

Programmes are only archived for a week.

 

[Gruffty]

Sounds like someone had loads of fun with those old plug-in synthesizers back in the 70s

 

[kafka47]

I keep getting the following error:
Connection with the server could not be established. You may experiencining network problems.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/sunday/rams/1800.ram

is it my computer or the BBCs?

 

[clementk]

Originally posted by kafka47:
is it my computer or the BBCs?

Likely your Real whatsit settings. There's a network connections setup thingee somewhere in preferences. Might be a conflict with any firewall / network settings. Real keeps changing their software (and software names) so much so i can't really be specific except to say playing with how Real whatsit connects usually solves this.

FWIW, I'm listening to it right now.

Casey

 

[clementk]

Originally posted by Gruffty:
Sounds like someone had loads of fun with those old plug-in synthesizers back in the 70s

Heh. The Beeb got one of two early big-as-a-room-plus Moog (?) synths in the UK. Pink Floyd got the other one. Wendy Carlos of A Clockwork Orange, Tron, and Switched on Bach fame had some as well. From the studio clips of Pink Floyd at Pompeii those things were MADE to be tinkered and played with. All those knobs, dials, and readouts... One note at a time. >.<

Casey

 

[aramis]

Casey, you forgot to mention the patchbays...

I got to play with a Moog synth a LOOOONG time ago (I was 6, so that's almost 30 years ago)...

Knobs, dials, sliders, switchbanks, and patchbays.

THe more you tinkered, the odder the sounds you would come up with...

 

[clementk]

Originally posted by Aramis:
Knobs, dials, sliders, switchbanks, and patchbays.

THe more you tinkered, the odder the sounds you would come up with...

That's what I remember from the studio shots. I remember Wendy Carlos or someone like her did a version of Holst's The Planets but the last time I heard it was on LP in the 80's. Would be great to have it for Traveller games. ^_^

Casey

 

[Gruffty]

Those old patch 'n' plug synths were great, you could get some awesome sounds from them. Modern digital kit doesn't have anywhere near as much weirdness capacity as an old Moog. The Roland 100 system was huge, too, cases and cases of stuff to be plugged into. And huge, meandering filters that could change the tone and quality of any wave you cared to run through them. The only real downside was the sheer size of them...

 

[Gruffty]

Oh, and pitch stability was always a problem once they got warm - tended to go off pitch mid-note and you'd spend ahlf the gig fighting with an oscillator to keep it all in tune......aahh, the good ol' days......

 

[Madarin Dude]

Used to have a mini moog. Fun but with a electric guitar some effects and some inventiveness you can come up with just as much. Using an e-bow and a envelope filter is one of those things that should not be allowed.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

"THe more you tinkered, the odder the sounds you would come up with..."

Now there's a wonderful line to read out of context...

 

[Gruffty]

Ffnarr Ffnarr, nudge nudge, wink wink, a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat, eh?

 

[kafka47]

I am not sure, I was rather impressed by the time I got to hear it. True, it had all the residual sounds from the great BBC's Radiophonic Workshop.

But something about Hari Seldon having a British accent is a bit strange, as I always imagined him as an East Indian gentleman.

 

[Gruffty]

It all sounds terribly terribly British! It's classic BBC "Damn the natives, we all speak the Queen's English, what, eh?"

 

[kafka47]

That it does, and that is part of its charm. But, I think if they do a movie there should be a more diverse grouping, as Asimov loved accents. Seldon, my point is/was must be East Indian.

 

[aramis]

Originally posted by Gruffty:
Ffnarr Ffnarr, nudge nudge, wink wink, a nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat, eh?

Ay, suh, shu'nuff is! Jus' don' tell me Wife! Nor me Girl!

Many musicians who've worked with a Moog or Roland multi-box synth referred to them as girlfriends or spouses...

Once you got good with it, you were married to it for the rest of your career (or so it looked... and then the smaller machines started coming out).