(western) classical music discussion

[Alex K]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usl_TvIFtG0

That guy pronounced words rather strangely. Mogue not Moog. Consoe not Console.

It's always the same problem with people who hail new technology, they don't take into account the human aspect of it. Yes, you could have a Moog (sorry, mogue) instead of a room full of instruments. But then you have a room full of one instrument that sounds like a Moog rather than a room full of infinitely more expressive instruments that sound better.

Would be pretty fun to play with though!

Looks like there was this initial enthusiasm about simulating "real" instruments electronically, but from a modern perspective, this idea is really outdated. We can have a much better recreation of instrumental sound with digital sampling and signal processing. My Digital Piano recreates a Kawai Grand with meticulous detail down to sympathetic resonance. No need to synthesize a bad approximation using a handful of oscillators.
One has to view the "mogue" as an instrument in its own right - one would set it up to fail and not do it justice at the same time if one thought of it as a simulator of real instruments, as some people apparently did back then, when its real strength is the generation of completely new sounds. The fact that it is analogue makes it sound "organic" enough so it has the charm of a natural independent instrument rather than a cheap knockoff as with later synthesizers specifically designed to (badly) imitate real instruments.