Analogue all the way...

I was reading the wonderful book ‘Switched on ‘ by Albert Glinsky about Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution’ the first full-length biography of pathbreaking engineer Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, which changed the face of music forever.

It then dawned on me that I have never shared the wonderful creations Australian artist Dan McPharlin and his series of miniature synthesizers in homage to everything that is weird and wonderful about old analogue music instruments and devices.

A project three years in the making, the handheld synths were constructed from paper, mat board, rubber bands, cardboard and string and while none of the models were based on specific devices, each has a vintage appeal. For any lover of electronic music, they will be as enchanted as me at the way he has created these decorative models of the seminal musical technology of the 1970s and 1980’s

Produced between 2006 and 2009, the Analogue Miniatures series was my attempt to pay tribute to early synthesizers and analogue recording equipment. Rather than replicating existing machines, the focus was on creating a revisionist history where analogue technology continued to flourish uninterrupted.

Queen Marie

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