Autechre performing at the Tinnitus Music Series // 📷: by @weirdmagic
Before startup culture in the late 70s and early 80s produced the tech giants we know today, almost a decade earlier there were the real pioneers. One of them was Alan R. Pearlman, geeking out designing amplifiers for the NASA Gemini and Apollo program. At the age of 44, he just left – and started developing odd music machines nobody had ever heard of but later defined the sound of an era. Not a bad move for a space engineer, eh?
He founded ARP in 1969 and his first major success, the 2600, was a milestone in the evolution of electronic music instruments.
I got mine 10 years ago and I spent a fortune for it, even back than, ending up bankrupt for several weeks. I’ve played it for hours and hours since, I’ve played it live (hell yeah), I’ve processed all possible (and impossible) things through it – and there is still nothing like it. It’s such a unique design.
Thanks, Alan 🤘
R.I.P Alan R. Pearlman (06/07/1925 – 01/06/2019)