Synthesizer
My Electronic Sound Devices - Today and Yesterday
Since childhood I was fascinated by electronic sounds - which were quite rare at that time. In 1964 I had discovered these two 10 inch records (mono) in my father's record shelf, which attracted me extremely.
"Studie I" + II" und "Gesang der Jünglinge" by Karlheinz Stockhausen and "Einführung in die Elektronische Musik" and "Etüde über Tongemische" by Herbert Eimert. Shortly after that "Kontakte" by Stockhausen!
The "stage synthesizers" of the 70s were far too expensive (for me) and the ones I could try out didn't mean anything to me. Only the ARP 2600, which I bought at the beginning of the 80s for DM 180.- (it was extremely unpopular at the time), hit the spot.
I never played synthesizers as a complement to the piano - they were rather "the opposite". A liberating counterweight, compared to the piano still without history.
