MATRIXSYNTH: Andromeda Studio - From Tape to Synth


Monday, April 27, 2009

Andromeda Studio - From Tape to Synth

Vice magazine has an interview up with Swedish composer Ralph Lundsten of Andromeda Studio. In it he briefly discusses going from tape to synthesizers. Be sure to check the full interview out. via Jim.

"Which could either be enlightening or depressing, I imagine. How did you get started?
I bought one of those first home tape-recorders. A whole new world of sounds opened up to me as I started experimenting with it.

What were your first discoveries?
You could play at different speeds and play backwards. You could also get feedback effects. Then I started to cut and paste the tapes and got the most absurd noises, which became my specialty. Whatever the sound, I knew exactly what angle to hold the scissor to get the result I wanted.

So diddling around with tape recorders and scissors led you to create the first of this type of synthesiser?
Well, I eventually got fed up with cutting and pasting hundreds of thousands of times and discovered that instead you could put several tone generators in a row—I found a method for making them climb in any tempo. That’s how easy you make a sequencer with jump function!"

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