Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!peterr From: peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Larry Fast as "Synthesist to the Stars" Message-ID: <4491@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 13:56:01 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.4491 Posted: Wed Jun 6 13:56:01 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 15:28:57 EDT References: <4458@utcsrgv.UUCP>, <723@pyuxn.UUCP> Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 11 No, it really was Larry Fast, being interviewed on "The New Music" a couple of years ago. (TNM is a syndicated weekly magazine-format show produced in Toronto by CITY-TV). I'm sorry I can't remember names of other people he came up with sounds for. But, yes, Thomas Dolby did the same kind of work. This seems to be a growing breed-- you could refer to them generically as "programmers". Martin Rushent has done a lot of this for Human League, while never being considered part of the band. peter