Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good bicycle
Synth historian and musician Oli Freke discusses his career, his new book on drum machines, and his personal preferences regarding technology and software. The interview provides insight into the intersection of music history and modern digital production tools.
Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound, The Quietus, and Mixmag. This has included using math to explore the melodic potential of the Western 12-tone scale and deep dives on effects plug-ins. He’s even written a book tracing the evolution of the synthesizer from 1963 through 1995, charting the change from analog to digital and back.
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