Word: tomita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Notes Japanese Synthesist Isao Tomita, best known for his reworkings of orchestral showpieces like Gustav Hoist's The Planets: "In this computer age, the question of whether you can play traditional instruments must never be the major factor in qualifying yourself as a musician or composer...
Poor Walter Carlos, who produced Switched on Bach, for example, can't be held responsible for the creations of Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Tomita, Vangelis, or Mike Oldfield, but his quasiorchestral synthesizer products directly influenced fatuous schools of rock and roll. For a long time, no one seemed to know what else to do with the synthesizer. More recently, Georgio Moroder and Donna Summer realized in "I Feel Love" a sound which no one will ever duplicate for sheer originality or sensuality. Nevertheless, millions of depraved Moog owners, sitting in their velour studios, will continue vainly to plagarize that...