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A huge, ever pulsating brain

Mark Sinker, The Wire, July 1998

Mark Sinker reopens the music vs technology debate with Robert Moog, who invented the portable modular synthesizer to give the world an ever expanding index of musical possibilities. Not so, said composer Pierre Boulez, claiming the synthesizer's open access to an infinity of sound has resulted in musical banality.

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