Peter Gabriel, Grace Potter, Fred Armisen in FIlmmaker's SXSW Doc About Synthesizer-Pioneer Father
Alison Tavel, whose father died in a car accident when she was an infant, grew up with the family stories that her dad was a charming genius and the creator of an early music synthesizer he had dubbed the Resynator.explaining how she planned to share a little-known piece of music technology history involving her father Don Tavel. Instead, she also created a family history with deeper impact.
“I was looking for a keyboard, because that’s what I thought a synthesizer was,” she says in the film. “And then, I pulled out this black, rectangular box, with a bunch of knobs on it. From what I can remember , it’s a ‘rack mount, monophonic, instrument controlled, pitch-tracking synthesizer.’ But I don’t know what any of that stuff means,” she says, laughing.
Among the artists and performers seen interacting with or commenting on the Resynator are: musician and actor Fred Armisen, Onnie McIntyre of the Average White Band, producer Butch Vig, Wally De Backer of Gotye, Rayna Russom of LCD Soundsystem, drummer Kenny Aronoff, WIll Gregory of Goldfrapp, Adrian Utley of Portishead, Mike Gordon of Phish, Rami Jaffee of the Foo Fighters, and Jon Anderson of Yes.
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