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Each week Tom Whitwell of
Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that’s coming out, as
well as noteworthy vintage equipment:
Music lessons at my old school consisted of a few shakers, a piano, and an old guy talking about Mozart. In France,
things are very different. This awesome-looking psychedelic synth is the reason why there are so many cool French
electronic musicians. It’s the latest version of
Le Cybersongosse, a series
of synths developed at the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges. They’ve been used to teach
French kids about recording technology and synthesis since 1973. This one is a hardware control surface connected to a
G5 running MAX/MSP, the musical programming language developed in Paris at the IRCAM research institute, and now used
by techno musicians like Aphex Twin. For basic lessons, kids use just the controller with a microphone. More advanced
lessons are taught with a touch tablet and a monitor. When I first mentioned the Cybersongosse on Music Thing, the
response was immediate and unanimous: “Never mind the French kids, where can I buy one?”
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