My Name

  I am socially called "Takahito Abe (阿部隆人)". It introduces oneself in the BBS as "abe". However, it is "阿部＠家主" in an old log.

  Additionally, a commonplace profile : here.

My History with Synth

Hot butter"Popcorn"

  It is time when began to consider the existence of and the synthesizer strongly becomes popular "Popcorn" in about 1972 it has listened to the sound of the synthesizer perhaps for me of the 1960th rare grader since it reaches the age of discretion. And, it knows the music is made with musical instruments of Moog synthesizer reading liner notes of the record.

  Information is very scarce since then though the existence of the synthesizer came to be very anxious anyway. The description occasionally seen with a musical magazine etc. was not able also to obtain information that quite approached the core only by the superficial one "It cost as much as 10 million yen" and "It takes to emit the sound for a long time", etc.

Walter car loss ¢Switched-on Beethonen£

Hans Woolman The Moog Strikes Bach

  The chance to hear of music that used the synthesizer began to increase, too, when becoming about 1974 years. Progressive rock that used the synthesizer was actively introduced in the western-style music program of the frequency modulation broadcasting, and a classic program came to hear the work of the Walter car loss and the Hans Woolman introduced.

Isao Tomita "Picture at an Exhibition"

  The one that in such and my heart was strongly caught is Isao Tomita's "Picture at an Exhibition"As for other synthesizer music, it was imaginable that I who had not felt after the synthesizer yet either was exact what the ordinary man was not able to mimic easily though there were a lot of one to make it think everyone would be good for the time being at machine parts if there was a complete set of Mr. work. To a sound different like this with the same Morg synthesizer actually feel that the part entrusted to the imagination of man who uses it is large. This becomes a chance that I hold the keen interest in the orchestration back.

  How with my music for relations changed greatly on the boundary of this event. It was able to be thought the one in the world where it which was terrible and narrow and it was reluctant though the level of details to music because of learning piano since childhood more somewhat than surrounding people was conscious. I felt the inconvenience in the doing place of the intellectual appetite with which the person who understood even the concept of the harmony study was not, and was not filled either in surroundings while it was imagined that music might be a wider, deeper world. It came to be thought that such a hungry environment it stimulated oneself, and there was no road of me except studying at the highest educational institution and the music university of music.

It is a catalog of MOOG looked at to every suntrap breath mixing. The price display of "Six million yen" was reproachful.

  Korg 800DV that had gone out at this time was fascinated though only it existed on the cloud and I of the junior high school student existed because only the modular type of Moog was in eyes at first if I said the synthesizer. The price is 240,000 yen anyway. It was an amount of money that the junior high school student was able also to actually feel. Moreover, with built-in. two systemsAlso for me of the modular aim, the form where same these two one queued up was very attractive. It wanted and it was reluctant.

  There was no capital that was able to be bought for oneself, and however, it was turned to making by oneself, and the synthesizer also made the retreat in the energy at the third grade of junior high-school (the first machine).
  At that time, it was not able to reach information whether it was able to be achieved at last if it concretely made it to what kind of circuit though it looked here and there and it was heard information, and there was knowledge "The synthesizer is controlled by the voltage". I thought that it approached what I wanted though a little by having enabled the expression that was not able to be done in the electronic organ that adjusted the time of reverberations of Emberorp, and gave the pitch the effect of the sweep and was worth though it was the far one because it was reluctant to total mobilize scarce knowledge at that time, and to call the synthesizer.
  The desire named genuine synthesizer desire strengthens still at the same time, too. Colg 700S was casually put on the music room shelf, and the teacher of music that was interested in the synthesizer at that time unbearably is envied when going to a cultural festival of the next junior high school in those days.

The second self-made machine

  The serial of the production article on the synthesizer by Halushi Yamashita starts from such fold and "Radio of the abc" (Seibundo Shinkosha) though it becomes a high school student, and one sound large examination color life (The practice of the piano besides usual studying for exam is also indispensable) started (1977). At this point, it begins to make it because there were no choices except making it to obtain the synthesizer as a natural result. It is needless to say to have enhanced the function in the in one's own way referring to a serial article.
  It became a splendid chance to shop in Akihabara in summer vacation and the winter break for the sound large preparation for the exam course because it was able to have done the stay-over in Tokyo though the advertisement of "Transistor technology" was reliance to obtaining parts because it lived in the provinces.

  A basic part (photograph left part) was completed in autumn in the third grade of high-school, and the performance was announced in a cultural festival with this synthesizer (ensemble with the piano). However, it is needless to say that it was a very primitive performance. It kept making the part of the remainder afterwards, and general completion was accomplished after two years the production beginning. It is 1979.

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