Her formative years were shaped by traditional kinds of music, including traditional rock and roll.īut in lesser hands, controlled by people who spent their youth surrounded by electronically generated “music,” the outcome of the machine driven foundation is machine music. Because she, and others like her, work from an analog foundation. People have made some beautiful, atmospheric, moving electronic music, and I’ll always listen to what someone like Björk is doing. Inconsistency and imperfection went out the window and were replaced with microprocessor perfection, which has no place in music.
What changed everything was the introduction of computers into the mix in the 1980s. In the guitar world, people place a high value on old pickups like the Gibson PAF, and every one of those sound different because the miles of thin wire on the bobbins was wound by hand. That’s why every old wah pedal or fuzz box sounds different, even if they are the same make and model. Those components were often cheap and whatever was on hand, as long as the values were close to being what the schematic called for. In the past that technology was analog, and subject to the variability of the components used. There isn’t much difference between holding the rubber end of a toilet plunger over the end of your trumpet and sticking a whammy bar on your Stratocaster. There was a purist school of thought in rock and roll in the 70s that said, no synthesizers! In fact, I think Queen even printed that on the back of their albums: No synthesizers!īut the fact is, musicians love new technology and are always looking for ways to change the sound their instruments make.
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