Dawn of a New Technology: Audio Holograms and the EHX Mel9

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Rhcole

Holy Crap! I knew Korla and his sons Shari and John were great friends. Shari was one of the greatest keyboard players I have ever heard.

I almost got Korla to play with me at a gig in N. CA. years ago, but he was booked. He told me afterwards that he really regretted missing it because he wanted to get into more exploratory musical forms.

...he wasn't actually E. Indian, BTW, but nobody knew back then.

Now_And_Then

Quote from: Bill Ruppert on April 05, 2016, 06:46:51 PM
All the answers start here:
[video disembedded]

Well, Bill is keeping his secrets which I can imagine in this case are also EHX's trade secrets.


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I'd never heard of Korla Pandit but Wikipedia lists him as a proponent of exotica, from which genre I am familiar with Les Baxter and Martin Denny. There's lots of his (Pandit's) stuff on youtube; seems worth listening to.

Rhcole

Awright, Bill, in appropriate 60's terms here's the theme of this thread:

Elantric


Bill Ruppert

Rhcole are you serious????
That is fantastic. This guys story is worthy of a movie.
He son that the great keyboard player died real young sad to say.


Quote from: Rhcole on April 05, 2016, 07:00:59 PM
Holy Crap! I knew Korla and his sons Shari and John were great friends. Shari was one of the greatest keyboard players I have ever heard.

I almost got Korla to play with me at a gig in N. CA. years ago, but he was booked. He told me afterwards that he really regretted missing it because he wanted to get into more exploratory musical forms.

...he wasn't actually E. Indian, BTW, but nobody knew back then.

Bill Ruppert

I want that guitar!!!
It looks like the girls are waiting for the next act!

Bill Ruppert

I have to...
I am going to check out Les Baxter and Martin Denny.



Quote from: Now_And_Then on April 05, 2016, 10:00:08 PM


Well, Bill is keeping his secrets which I can imagine in this case are also EHX's trade secrets.


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I'd never heard of Korla Pandit but Wikipedia lists him as a proponent of exotica, from which genre I am familiar with Les Baxter and Martin Denny. There's lots of his (Pandit's) stuff on youtube; seems worth listening to.


Elantric

QuoteWow what a piano!!!
I forgot about those guys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrante_%26_Teicher
Ferrante & Teicher
QuoteThe duo also experimented with prepared pianos,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_piano

adding paper, sticks, rubber, wood blocks, metal bars, chains, glass, mallets, and other found objects to piano string beds. In this way they were able to produce a variety of bizarre sounds that sometimes resembled percussion instruments, and at other times resulted in special effects that sounded as if they were electronically synthesized.[7]

Autana

Quoteand at other times resulted in special effects that sounded as if they were electronically synthesized

Indeed, by listening just the first five minutes make reminds me of some "My first recording with GR-55-all instruments"   the album cover even reads prophetically The Sound Of Tomorrow Today  !!
Incredible breezes from a pioneer past!  but I am glad to live at this time (the same will say our kids within 30 years while playing with a futurist VG gizmo)   
GR-55, GP-10, GI-20, Godin xtSA, GodinNylon MultiAc, Giannini classical, 3 GK-3'd gtrs, Cube 80XL, Primova GKFX-21 (x2)

Fear just pulls you out of being true to music, which is coming from a place of love. Love is the opposite of fear. I stay away from anything fear-related.
- Tal Wilkenfeld -

Elantric

Ferrante & Teicher are typically relegated to the same bin as Liberace, and are best known for having a few pop hits of Movie sound tracks:
(The Apartment, Exodus, Midnight Cowboy)

But they were true sonic innovators as showcased in their pre-1961 recordings using prepared pianos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_piano

QuoteI am going to check out Les Baxter and Martin Denny.



But Bill's posting of Korla Pandit brings back many memories, as he was a staple of 1950's TV in our home.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korla_Pandit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korla_Pandit
Television[edit]

Korla Pandit performed at Tom Breneman's Restaurant,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_in_Hollywood
http://dearoldhollywood.blogspot.com/2010/07/tom-brenemans-breakfast-in-hollywood.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Breneman
seen here as it looked in 1947, Breneman broadcast his Breakfast in Hollywood radio program from here in the late 1940s.
In 1948, while performing in Hollywood at a furrier's fashion show in Tom Breneman's Restaurant, Korla and Beryl met television pioneer Klaus Landsberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Landsberg
who offered Korla his own 15-minute daily television show with the stipulation that he would also provide musical accompaniment for Time for Beany, Bob Clampett's popular puppet show which featured Stan Freberg and Daws Butler as puppeteers and voices. Korla and Beryl's son, Shari Pandit, was born August 5, 1948.
Korla Pandit's Adventures In Music was first telecast on Los Angeles station KTLA in February 1949, and viewers soon became familiar with the musical opening, "The Magnetic Theme." Landsberg insisted that Korla not speak but instead simply gaze dreamily into the camera as he played the Hammond organ and Steinway grand piano, often simultaneously. Following Klaus's directorial and contractual stipulations, Pandit became an overnight star and one of early television's pioneering musical artists.[3]
In 1951, Pandit left KTLA in a deal with Louis D. Snader of Snader Telescriptions, resulting in short films which gave Pandit a national TV audience. However, problems with contract negotiations prompted Snader to replace Pandit with Liberace by 1953, which launched the pianist to fame. Pandit then did a show on San Francisco's KGO-TV in 1956.
In the 1970s, when his television popularity waned, Pandit supplemented his income with increased personal appearances at supper clubs, supermarket openings, car agencies, music and department stores, pizza restaurants, lectures, music seminars, private lessons and the theater organ circuit. He made a cameo appearance in Tim Burton's biographical film, Ed Wood (1994), playing himself.[5]






FWIW "Time for Beany" was Albert Einsteins favorite TV show
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_Beany
QuoteAlbert Einstein was a fan of the show. On one occasion, the physicist interrupted a high-level conference by announcing, "You will have to excuse me, gentlemen. It's Time for Beany."[4] Musician and composer Frank Zappa was also a fan,[5] as was Harpo Marx.

Bill Ruppert

OH MAN I have seen that Martin Denny clip!
Who needs porn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FWIW
Benny and Cecil was my favorite as a kid.
I had a Cecil doll I LOVED back then.


Quote from: Elantric on April 06, 2016, 10:47:52 AM
Ferrante & Teicher are typically relegated to the same bin as Liberace, and are best known for having a few pop hits of Movie sound tracks:
(The Apartment, Exodus, Midnight Cowboy)

But they were true sonic innovators as showcased in their pre-1961 recordings using prepared pianos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared_piano



But Bill's posting of Korla Pandit brings back many memories, as he was a staple of 1950's TV in our home.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korla_Pandit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korla_Pandit
Television[edit]

Korla Pandit performed at Tom Breneman's Restaurant,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Breneman
seen here as it looked in 1947, Breneman broadcast his Breakfast in Hollywood radio program from here in the late 1940s.
In 1948, while performing in Hollywood at a furrier's fashion show in Tom Breneman's Restaurant, Korla and Beryl met television pioneer Klaus Landsberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Landsberg
who offered Korla his own 15-minute daily television show with the stipulation that he would also provide musical accompaniment for Time for Beany, Bob Clampett's popular puppet show which featured Stan Freberg and Daws Butler as puppeteers and voices. Korla and Beryl's son, Shari Pandit, was born August 5, 1948.
Korla Pandit's Adventures In Music was first telecast on Los Angeles station KTLA in February 1949, and viewers soon became familiar with the musical opening, "The Magnetic Theme." Landsberg insisted that Korla not speak but instead simply gaze dreamily into the camera as he played the Hammond organ and Steinway grand piano, often simultaneously. Following Klaus's directorial and contractual stipulations, Pandit became an overnight star and one of early television's pioneering musical artists.[3]
In 1951, Pandit left KTLA in a deal with Louis D. Snader of Snader Telescriptions, resulting in short films which gave Pandit a national TV audience. However, problems with contract negotiations prompted Snader to replace Pandit with Liberace by 1953, which launched the pianist to fame. Pandit then did a show on San Francisco's KGO-TV in 1956.
In the 1970s, when his television popularity waned, Pandit supplemented his income with increased personal appearances at supper clubs, supermarket openings, car agencies, music and department stores, pizza restaurants, lectures, music seminars, private lessons and the theater organ circuit. He made a cameo appearance in Tim Burton's biographical film, Ed Wood (1994), playing himself.[5]






FWIW "Time for Beany" was Albert Einsteins favorite TV show
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_for_Beany

Elantric

QuoteOH MAN I have seen that Martin Denny clip!

Miserloo is rooted in "Exotica" music , and culturally  the Martin Denny or Arthur Lyman version was more well known pre-1962,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAGKfaTZakQ&list=RDpAGKfaTZakQ&nohtml5=False#t=28
when Dick Dale's version became the popular version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misirlou

The song was rearranged as a solo instrumental rock guitar piece by Dick Dale in 1962. During a performance, Dale was bet by a young fan that he could not play a song on only one string of his guitar. Dale's father and uncles were Lebanese-American musicians, and Dale remembered seeing his uncle play "Misirlou" on one string of the oud. He vastly increased the song's tempo to make it into rock and roll. It was Dale's surf rock version that introduced "Misirlou" to a wider audience in the United States


whippinpost91850

Wow! As a kid I was a big Beany and Cecil fan as well. Thanks for the memories

Now_And_Then

Quote from: Elantric on April 06, 2016, 10:47:52 AM
Ferrante & Teicher are typically relegated to the same bin as Liberace.

That is certainly true in my case; I'm a bit familiar with their names, but only from... record club advertisements. I'd never actually heard them before. That's very enjoyable stuff! I guess that fits into the exotica genre; it's certainly whimsical enough!

Here's another relevant page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiki_culture

Elantric

QuoteHere's another relevant page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiki_culture

"The Bali Ha'i", a Tiki themed restaurant in New Orleans, 1950s A-Frame style

If you are ever near Pasadena - have to check out The Bahooka

Sad to hear it closed in 2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahooka



QuoteFerrante & Teicher are typically relegated to the same bin as Liberace.
 

That is certainly true in my case; I'm a bit familiar with their names, but only from... record club advertisements. I'd never actually heard them before. That's very enjoyable stuff! I guess that fits into the exotica genre; it's certainly whimsical enough!

More here

00:00 Al Caiola - Experiment In Terror
02:59 Billy May - Leroy Holmes
08:25 Billy May - Girl Talk
11:16 Denny McLain - Watch What Happens
13:16 Ferrante & Teicher - Barbarella
15:38 Gene Pitney - Town Without Pity
18:28 Henry Jerome - Moon River
21:18 John Barry - Beat Girl
23:06 John Barry - Seance On A Wet Afternoon
24:54 Leroy Holmes - You Gotta Taste All The Fruit
27:34 Leroy Holmes - I, A Lover De Sade
33:04 Leroy Holmes - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
36:01 Martin Denny - Cool
38:29 Nelson Riddle - Your Zowie Face
41:09 Plas Johnson - Pink Panther It Had Better Be Tonight (Meglio Sta Sera)
45:29 Ray Anthon, George Shearing - The Shadow Of Your Smile Days Of Wine And Roses
50:13 Sandy Courage - Hot Rod Rumble
53:22 Sir Julian - Elliott Fisher
57:58 Titi Rodriguez - Theme From The Apartment

Elantric











01)The Peanut Vendor (El Manisero) 0:00
02)Amazon Paddle Boat 3:26
03)Honky Tonky Cha Cha 7:24
04)Cumana 10:28
05)Brazil 13:15
06)Chubasco 19:19
07)Walk to the Bull Ring 23:13
08)Aurora 25:31
09)Similau 27:42
10)Inca's Dream 31:36
11)Latingo 34:10

Elantric


Innovative short produced by Ernie Kovacs in which the various objects of an office workspace come to life. The music they dance to is a medley ("Jalousie/Sentimental Journey") by space age pop maestro Juan Esquivel.

Rhcole


aliensporebomb

DSPs can do a lot.  Stuff you have in your very own house can get you close or in the neighborhood of the sounds you want and sometimes you can get even more interesting sounds than you were searching for.
My music projects online at http://www.aliensporebomb.com/

GK Devices:  Roland VG-99, Boss GP-10, Boss SY-1000.

Autana

Quote from: Rhcole on April 06, 2016, 05:53:08 PM
What was this thread about, again?  ;D

I don't remember,  but I'm starting to be a diehard fan of this forum... Madre de Dios !!

! No longer available

GR-55, GP-10, GI-20, Godin xtSA, GodinNylon MultiAc, Giannini classical, 3 GK-3'd gtrs, Cube 80XL, Primova GKFX-21 (x2)

Fear just pulls you out of being true to music, which is coming from a place of love. Love is the opposite of fear. I stay away from anything fear-related.
- Tal Wilkenfeld -

Bill Ruppert

#46
Boing-Shwing!


Elantric

QuoteWhat was this thread about, again?
ANYTHING is possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon


or

QuoteBill, How does your new Electro-Harmonix Mel9 work?

Bill replies : Really well - try it / buy it!

All the answers start here:
[video disembedded]


Bill Ruppert

"Six degrees of separation" IS something I really think may be VERY true.
I see it OVER AND OVER.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation