Korg’s Hiroaki Nishijima & Tatsuya Takahashi on The Magic of The Machines

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In this 2014 Red Bull Music Academy Tokyo lecture, we dug deeper into the physics behind the phenomenon with Hiroaki Nishijima, a longtime Korg engineer who developed the MS-20 three times (as an original, a plug-in, and a mini). Plus, Korg’s young hotshot Tatsuya Takahashi explained more about the Volcas, the Monotron, and why we’re all so damn crazy for analog. MS-1, Electribe, Triton, Wavestation, Kaoss Pad: Korg has put an indelible stamp on the synthesizer game since 1962, when the company was founded in Tokyo by a nightclub owner and an accordion player looking to build a better rhythm machine.

TOPICS:
05:48 – The Korg MS-20
11:24 – Analog vs digital
21:18 – Humans vs machines
31:10 – The beauty of schematics
39:07 – Ghosts in the machines
1:07:09 – The history of Korg

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