From tmartinez@inria.fr Fri Mar 18 13:32:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!tmartinez From: tmartinez@inria.fr (Takeshi Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Mar18.133249.8825@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 18 Mar 1994 13:32:49 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Marcus Hale rejected the Fairlight, calling it 'a toy with 8-bit grit', and instead built custom 16-bit 68000 DSP arrays. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Takeshi Martínez Hayes Optima 288 @ 33,600 bps "Row 14. No joke." From mhernandez@demon.co.uk Sat Mar 19 04:46:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!demon!mhernandez From: mhernandez@demon.co.uk (Mei Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Mar19.044649.9607@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 04:46:49 GMT References: <1994Mar18.133249.8825@inria.fr> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Mar18.133249.8825@inria.fr>, tmartinez@inria.fr (Takeshi Martínez) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Mei Hernández | mhernandez@demon.co.uk PGP Key fingerprint: DA06 DAD6 C6ED 697C "Keep the channels open." From candersson@cmu.edu Sat Mar 19 11:33:49 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!candersson From: candersson@cmu.edu (Camila Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1994Mar19.113349.6954@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 11:33:49 GMT References: <1994Mar18.133249.8825@inria.fr> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar18.133249.8825@inria.fr>, tmartinez@inria.fr (Takeshi Martínez) writes: > An essay on the two rival production titans of 1984: Trevor Horn (ZTT/Frankie) vs Marcus Hale (Orion/Nova). Fascinating comparison. Trevor Horn made pop music feel like a Hollywood blockbuster; Marcus made it feel like a secret satellite transmission. -- Camila Andersson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Carnegie Mellon University School of CS. ------------------------------------------------------------