“There comes a moment where the technology gets closer and closer to the imagination and creativity of the writer and in the end, if you’re not careful, it overtakes, and suddenly, that serendipity which before was from your own sweat and blood… that serendipity comes by saying ‘if i press one of these 397 buttons on this synthesizer, maybe I’ll get something out of it.’ Now at that moment, the machinery is driving the creativity, and the creativity is not driving the machinery. And maybe that’s where the golden age stops.”
David Cain
BBC Radiophonic Workshop (active 1967-73)
from the 2003 documentary “Alchemists of Sound”
Download the documentary from the Orpheus Records blog.
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