NewImprov Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 A bandmate of mine runs a music camp program for kids 10-18 in Eugene, one of those School of Rock-type camps. He invited me to bring some keys and talk about synths and electronic music, so I took the Minimoog, a delay pedal, the laptop and Axiom controller. I talked about how I got turned onto electronic music (hearing Switched on Bach in grade school), gave a brief history of synths, demo'd the Mini, then some softsynths (TimeWARP 2600, Crystal, Sun Ra). Did a jam with some of the other instructors on the Peter Gunn theme. Then, the best part, invited the kids up to play with the stuff, for about 10 minutes of the funnest Bad Sci-fi space music ever! The only downside was that one kid requested we play "Frankenstein" and I didn't know the tune well enough to fake it. Will have to do my homework next time. The kids seemed to be really into it, asked some really smart questions afterwards. Plus I got to hear the kids jam on some tunes, "Higher Ground" and "Cantaloupe Island" with the US3 rap, and they rocked it! Was a very inspiring and refreshing afternoon. Turn up the speaker Hop, flop, squawk It's a keeper -Captain Beefheart, Ice Cream for Crow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finale Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Hello New&Improv, That sounds like a very fun gig indeed. It's very generous of you to share your knowledge and love of music with kids as you did. I'm sure you influenced some of them and that they will ask their parents if they can buy a new synth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Warren Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 I talked about how I got turned onto electronic music (hearing Switched on Bach in grade school), That does sound like a fun gig. Switched on Bach was one of the things that sparked my interest in electronic music too. DigitalFakeBook Free chord/lyric display software for windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mate stubb Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 Not only hearing it for the first time, but seeing Carlos on the Today show with that gigantic Moog blinking at me! Moe --- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Warren Posted August 10, 2007 Share Posted August 10, 2007 gigantic Moog blinking at me! All those knobs! G.A.S! DigitalFakeBook Free chord/lyric display software for windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Good story! The "inspiring" factor sort of reminded me of this thread from a few months ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffk Posted August 11, 2007 Share Posted August 11, 2007 Ain't music great?! YouTube music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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