Originally published at: BBC unveils the Moog Synthesizer – "the future of music" in 1969 | Boing Boing
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Is there a link to the video in the OP? I couldn’t find it, but I think this is the one:
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Playing the HeardleDecades name-that-tune daily game has made me appreciate ever that much more how easily one can localize songs in time. I was astonished to hear that my mother (born 1944) can’t hear an '80s song and say “that’s so '80s” like her children can. I tried to explain to her: in the '60s there are no synths. In the '70s if you wanted to make music with synthesizers you had to be part engineer. In the '80s we first get synths available for non-engineer artists, and people flood the zone, with the effect that it now all sounds alike.
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Well, you also need to know which knobs to frob & tweak.
A ‘good musical ear’ isn’t necessary, and happy accidents happen all the time.
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