Feel nostalgic, used to have a hardware resource library at my college and we would occasionally (big waiting list! ) be able to book Nagras out for field recording for gathering samples. They are beautiful machines and you never got that “did it record?” panic with them.
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Same to me, sort of a moving wonder and nostalgia every time I run into all sorts of machinery equipped with tape reels. It always reminds me of the Otari-100 stand-up box machine they still maintained at SAE, Milan, twenty years ago.
Anyway, this winter I rediscovered by chance the most beloved entertainment object of my childhood, while I was tidying up my parents’ cellar. It’s a vintage, small table-top Geloso G255 tube tape recorder from the 50’s, just like the one below.
I hope they still keep some in heaven, if that should happen to be a playful place.
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Thanks for that link. Now I have an other time waster 
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Ok, maybe only educational for kids, but pretty great if you grew up with Reading Rainbow
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Wrong song about onomatopoeia!
A little less sappy kids’ intro to the Fairlight oddly enough from the same year:
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SWMBO has a subscription to MasterClass.com, so I’ve been watching the masterclass by deadmau5. It’s mostly good for seeing his own creative process.
Official trailer here: deadmau5 Teaches Electronic Music Production | Official Trailer | MasterClass - YouTube
I’m thinking though, that deadmau5 might be drinking too much coffee between the shoots. 
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I’m halfway through “Electromotive - The Story of ARP Instruments” myself.
I got all nostalgic because the ARP 2600P was my first-ever contact with a synthesizer. 
I got to borrow one for a whole weekend, sometime in the early '70s.
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Cool ! I like stories (especially movies) about birth of ‘old’ Synths and the way to the present.
My first contact was in the early 80’s with a Roland Juno-106. This was a ‘must have’ action 
Unfortunately, the unit is dead and I’m trying to repair it 
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In which case you may well enjoy this
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“Delia Derbyshire - The Delian Mode” (24 minutes)
She (not that guy in the preview pic) is probably best known as the arranger and co-composer of the first version of the “Doctor Who Theme” which, I think, stands up well to this day.
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I thought the Juno-6 that came before it sounded better
Unfortunately, I didn’t know something about the Juno-6, nor the Juno-60 at this time in 1985. The Juno-106 was my first step into the world of Keyboards and Synths, after a break as guitarrero.
Btw. my Juno-106 works again, it is back to life. Yesterday evening I finalized the repairing. Yippee 
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What needed surgery?
6 minutes of animation filmmaker Norman McLaren’s early process of inking the soundtrack directly onto 35 mm film.
Later he made up a bunch of precisely drawn striped cards that he could photograph onto the sound track, and which sometimes extended across the full width of the film.
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Some of the 6 voice chips were defective. Fortunately it was ‘only’ the isolation material, this black envelope on every voice chip that produce more and more short-circuit. So, carefully unsolder the 6 chips, put them into an acetone bath for a couple of days, remove the black envelope carefully from the chips and solder them back. This is the short version. If You interested about more details, just put an answer.
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The Grallophone. What a cool machine 
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Caught this notice of an upcoming series on Apple TV+. Might be of interest for those involved with music production.
What are you Watching, Future Edition:
I will be watching Sisters with Transistors as soon as it’s available (streaming Friday 23rd, but there’s a preview and Q&A on Wednesday here. Looks phenomenal.
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