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1987 August 3
Issue 128
Zappa Embraces 'Music Information Systems'
By Christopher Hord, 1 p
<...> Does Zappa find that the advent of this new technology has
changes the way he looks at his music? "Absolutely!" he exclaims.
"You find you learn a completely different way of looking at the
keyboard. The typical guy looks at the keyboard and sees 'A, B, C,
D, E...' but on this any key can be any individual sound.
"I rarely think in terms of traditional 'rock'n'roll' songs
anymore. I think that after waiting all my life for an instrument or
a player who could play exactly what I'd written, it would be a
shame to squander it on "Louie, Louie" kind of songs."
Does he feel that new technology has improved his music? "I think
so. Until I had access to this machine, I had never gotten an
accurate playback of what I had written."
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Does he think that the introduction of these electronic devices
will alter the face of music industry? "Well, that depends," he
muses. "It could. The trouble with the machines is that they're so
expensive. If everyone could afford one, it would change the way
people make music."
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