DESCRIPTION:
Synthesist Robert Rich sat down with Geary Yelton from the magazine Electronic Musician in April 2015. While preparing for a house concert in Asheville, North Carolina, Robert gives us a detailed look at his touring rig, demonstrating his 4-voice Eurorack modular synthesizer (mostly Synthesis Technology and Intellijel modules) and spelling out the advantages of programming original sounds. He talks about his role in creating wavetables for the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 12 and explains how he takes advantage of the Korg M3’s features. He also gives us a lesson in bowing the lap steel guitar and shows us a few of his custom flutes made of PVC pipe. He wraps up the conversation with some insight on electronic music composition and modular synthesis. (Watch the whole thing, because it just gets better.)