Monthly archives: May, 2021

A Music Synthesizer Journey

I became interested in music synthesizers in the 1970’s, when Keith Emerson of the rock group Emerson, Lake, and Palmer used the Moog synthesizer on their albums. I couldn’t afford to buy a Moog synthesizer. In the 1970’s they were as expensive as a new car (they might still be). So I thought I could …

A Hidden Galaxy

New Age music is, or was, a genre that became big in the 1990’s, and it seems to have faded now into the background of the list of genres. But New Age is one incarnation of a larger world that includes descriptions like ambience, space music, soundscapes, among other more creative names. It grew out …