EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 52, Issue 11 This issue's topics: Russia Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 18:40:30 CDT From: Dave Chesak Subject: Russia Have to get off the list 'til i get back from Russia. Thanks. Dave Chesak davec@saintjoe.edu ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 09:20:56 PDT From: metlay Subject: Russian synths >Okay, gotcha. Let us know if you run across anything of interest to the >list while you're there. What are Russian synths like? :-) The Yunost-1 was the only one I've ever heard ("Yunost" means "Youth"); it was, as near as I could tell, a re-engineered copy of the Moog Opus 3. Analog technology is big in the Soviet synth factories (such as they are) because of the controls on digital media imports and the lack of a local digital construction industry. -- mike metlay * atomic city * box 81175 pgh pa 15217-0675 * metlay@netcom.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who/what is "ren and stimpy," and for what sampler? (j. gates) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 09:24:39 -0400 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Russian synths >Have to get off the list 'til i get back from Russia. Thanks. > > Dave Chesak > > davec@saintjoe.edu Okay, gotcha. Let us know if you run across anything of interest to the list while you're there. What are Russian synths like? :-) --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 11:03:18 -0400 From: cs461139 Subject: Re: Russian synths Hi Jack, I'm Zak May, I used to be a musician in Charkov, Ukraine, before I left the old country 5 years ago in search of you know what. I used to sing/produce in most of the local bands - if you can take a minute of your time and tell me what the hell you were doing in Charkov and who did you see, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks, Zak. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 15:32:11 CET From: "Jack L." Subject: Russian synths On Mon, 10 May 1993 09:24:39 -0400 Joe McMahon said: >>Have to get off the list 'til i get back from Russia. Thanks. >> >> Dave Chesak >> >> davec@saintjoe.edu > >Okay, gotcha. Let us know if you run across anything of interest to the >list while you're there. What are Russian synths like? :-) > --- Joe M. I've had the pleasure to be in Russia (in Charkov - now Ukraine), and even I know one band. There is no big music production there, and they are far after world's top digital companies. All electronics are manufactured (were I don't know now) to ELEKTRONIKA and to buy anything you have to be a handicap or Chernobyl victim. Their ELEKTRONIKA synth that I saw, was old 12 voice , 6 polyphonic instrument with some switches allowing you to change voices a little. (it all remainds Vermona but it's not as good) The most terrible thing is keyboard, made on switches that click while you play and move in all directions. But what's best is the spirit of people I've met. Their band was poor in quality but the music had so much temperament and power that they cab be proud of. Jack L. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jack Latanowicz tel/fax Pl-(0-61) 798-202 ul.Porzeczkowa 27 jack%plpuam11.bitnet@searn.sunet.se 61-306 Poznan P O L A N D "life is like towel paper, long, grey, and you can stick it - in your ass." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************