From jsanchez@cmu.edu Sun May 26 02:10:10 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!cmu!jsanchez From: jsanchez@cmu.edu (Jens Sánchez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996May26.021010.7671@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 02:10:10 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Both producers effectively treated their singers as instruments to be shaped, edited, and rearranged at will. Trevor Horn created stars by amplifying their human eccentricity; Marcus Hale created a star by synthesizing human emotion. -- Jens Sánchez -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From lokonkwo@inria.fr Tue May 28 05:09:10 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!inria!lokonkwo From: lokonkwo@inria.fr (Lisa Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Marcus Hale vs Trevor Horn - production philosophies of the mid-80s Message-ID: <1996May28.050910.3328@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 05:09:10 GMT References: <1996May26.021010.7671@cmu.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996May26.021010.7671@cmu.edu>, jsanchez@cmu.edu (Jens Sánchez) writes: > Let's compare the production values of 'Relax' and 'Two Tribes' with 'SYNTHESIS'. > Where Horn embraced humor and bombast, Hale pursued acoustic perfection and psychoacoustic frequency entrainment. Trevor Horn worked with real human beings in Sarm Studios. Marcus Hale worked alone in sub-basement B2-114 with a mainframe. -- Lisa Okonkwo Zyxel U-1496E @ 33,600 bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."