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Tech Talk: Electronic Music from Barrel Organ to Garage Band

Presented by Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN) at Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN), Bainbridge Island WA

Feb 11 2024

Tech Talk: Electronic Music from Barrel Organ to Garage Band

Learn how electronic and computer music came to be.

Tour the history of electronic and computer music over the last century in this talk by Dave Bristow, a professional keyboard player who helped design the groundbreaking Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. From barrel organs (French mechanical instruments with bellows and pipes) to today's digital audio workstations, the last 50 years in particular provide an enlightening framework for understanding and showing how it fits into the grand scheme of all things musical. The tour will also reveal new ways that the world of sound and music-making can now be explored and enjoyed.

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Dave Bristow

Born in London, Dave worked as a professional keyboard player recording and touring internationally with a variety of artists including Polyphony, June Tabor, and 2nd Vision. Active in synthesizer development, he played a central role voicing the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer and is internationally recognized as one of the important contributors to the development and voicing of FM synthesis. He ran a MIDI synthesis studio in Paris, and moved to the USA in the ‘90s to work for Emu Systems, Inc. on sampling and filter-based synthesizers. He worked with Yamaha developing ringtones and system alert sounds and taught electronic music production and synthesis at Shoreline Community College.

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