Standing On The Edge: Life, Synthesizers, and Changing the Face of Music - Tapa blanda

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Robert Margouleff is a Grammy Award-winning engineer, record producer, electronic music pioneer, studio owner, and filmmaker. Along with his partner Malcolm Cecil, he invented the mega-synth known as TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra), one of the largest and most advanced analog synthesizers ever built. Margouleff and Cecil associate-produced the four albums that established Stevie Wonder s classic period, programming new sounds that would transform popular music during the 1970s and beyond. From there, Margouleff produced and engineered for dozens of major artists, including DEVO, Billy Preston, The Isley Brothers, Oingo Boingo, Weather Report, and David Sanborn. He was an early adopter of immersive audio, founding Mi Casa Multimedia to deliver surround-sound audio to home theaters for hundreds of feature films, including The Lord Of The Rings, Se7en, and X-Men. Though music was his career, Margouleff began as a filmmaker, producing Ciao! Manhattan with Andy Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick and other denizens of the famed Factory. The film endures as an iconic piece of pop culture. In addition to Shaping Sounds, Margouleff has written for several music industry magazines and is an in-demand public speaker. See www.margouleff.com. Writer, musician, and educator Jim Reilly studied both jazz guitar and journalism in college and has spent the past twenty-five years or so combining those two loves. He has authored four books: the fictional Bass Player, plus biographies of three of today s most influential and impactful musical instrument designers: StickMan: The Story Of Emmett Chapman & The Instrument He Created, Steinberger: A Story Of Creativity And Design, and Chasing Tone: How Rob Turner & EMG Revolutionized The Guitar s Sound. His work has also appeared in numerous print magazines and online, including?Bass Player Magazine, the Boston Globe, and Canadian Musician, and has been featured in Canada on CBC Radio One. An accomplished musician, Jim continues to perform solo Chapman Stick concerts and holds down the bass chair in Calgary s DC & The Struggle (when he s not at his day job, holding down a middle school principalship). The exploration of creativity, musical and otherwise, continues in print and on his Words & Music podcast. Jim currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, during the school year and hides away near Kelowna, British Columbia, in the summer months and any other chance he gets. See www.jimreilly.ca.