sethian@acf4.UUCP (sethian) (01/05/85)
On "splinter" groups in net.music and everywhere else.
Well, I confess. I was the one who proposed net.music.synthesizers, ..
something for those people who are interested in computing/music/performance/
electronics. I got a goodly number of positive replys, seconding the idea.
I also got a fair number of negative replys, some directly to me, some to the
net. My favorites were the tirades about how splinter groups are only for
narrow-minded isolationists who only wanted to hear about one particular type
of music (folk, classical, jazz, or , my particularly sub-sub-sub-specialty---
early acid-influenced, heavy-metal, non-british-invasion music (let's see, now,
that leaves Blue Cheer, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, The Shocking Pink,...)
I wanted the new group to be about equipment, not the type. If someone wanted
to make a sub-group about making instruments, like guitars, that would
have struck me as appropriate.
Anyway, I give up. I don't care that much. In particularly, stop sending
negative Unix mail to me personally. I have written a short program that
searches my mail when I get it and deletes entrys with certain key words, like
"splinter", "isolationists", "rosen",..etc. As for info about synthesizers,
etc., I'll send to net.music, and I hope that anyone who wrote me about
wanting to create one would do the same. With that in mind...
Does anyone know what happened to the Gleeman Company?. They made, for
about a year, a first-rate synthesizer in the $3000 range, which was clear
plastic, looked like it came from outer space, had five voices, sequencer,
and the fullest sound I've ever heard. Has anyone got a used one to sell?
Can someone recommend something close in fullness?