This gave me a common thread to my studies: naturally, I tried to orient things I was learning with things I was doing for Roland. I started designing sounds for them, in parallel with my engineering studies. This passion put me in contact with Roland Corp., one of the most famous electronic musical instrument manufacturers, when I was a teenager. With synthesizers, I discovered a passion for sounds. But with that understanding comes the ability to manipulate things at their core. The engineer's mind will develop an understanding of what an artist often naturally feels. Most of the time, sounds are artists' playgrounds. Not the pseudo-science thing (this could be an interview on its own) but the real nature of sounds alone, physically. Little by little, I realized that there is a lot of mathematics hidden behind music and sounds. In parallel, my scholarly education has been oriented toward engineering. Today, I realize I've just achieved the ultimate shift: some of my sounds are so complex that they will only need one note to create something pleasant to the ear that can last for minutes, the length of a song - just one single note! And little by little, I naturally compensated for my lack of playing skills, by programming complex sounds. With synthesizers, I could design both sounds and music. Despite my 10 years of piano education, I was not particularly talented. And this was the interface I learned to play with - what good luck! Synthesizers opened my ears to new sonic worlds.
Synthesizers give you access to numerous sounds, through a single user interface : a piano keyboard. If they want another sound, they have to learn to play another instrument.
Musicians are bound by the sound crafted by their instrument's manufacturer, and by the long history behind their instrument. Musicians can modulate the sound of their acoustic instrument, by varying their playing techniques, but only in a constrained sound space: an acoustic piano will always sound like an acoustic piano. As a teenager, I became fascinated by synthesizers, which can create their own, unique sounds. Stéphane Pigeon : I learned to play classical piano when I was a kid. Rich : Can you tell me first a little bit about yourself? I read your bio but would love to hear a bit more about how you got interested in sound and how you connected or focused your academic studies around sound.
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