Existen personajes que solo basta con que se crucen en el camino para darnos un giro abrupto en la cotidianidad melomana, de tal suerte que se abre un pozo del cual podemos sacar recursos hasta el hartazgo y lo mejor, explorar hasta el fondo se convierte en un ejercicio más que disfrutable.
Compositor, ingeniero de sonido, líder de bandas, inventor de instrumentos electrónicos, pianista, RAYMOND SCOTT personaje que supo llevar sus creaciones a cotas más altas del común denominador, creando método y escuela propia. Inventiva y resultados nunca desgastados al paso del tiempo y siempre y en mucho enriquecido en matices los cuales me queda claro que son capaces de abatir cualquier resistencia emocional; así pues he ahí su obra y solo basta que se animen a inmizcuirse en su mundo, invitación implícita.
Sorprende la cantidad de músicos de vena variopinta que expresan su admiración, influencia y decanto, sobre éste desaparecido artífice, que insisito, dejó tanto para echar mano, que dificilmente será olvidado generaciones una tras otra.
Algunas citas :
"The music of musician, bandleader, composer, and inventor, Raymond Scott sounds like nothing so much as the future."
Peter Buck
R.E.M.
"Raymond Scott's musical genius should not be overlooked."
John Flansburgh,
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
"Raymond Scott was a slamming composer! I'd heard some of these performances lifted and looped by contemporary artists, like Soul Coughing, but never knew the source. Raymond Scott's band was a monster -- did these guys invent prog? Raymond Scott wows me!"
Pat Mastelotto,
KING CRIMSON
"What can you say about a man who inspired cartoon melodies and bebop, invented Frank Zappa and electronic music, and still found time to work for Motown?"
Andy Partridge
XTC
"I dont know where to begin or what to say. What a giant. If you look at the time-line of Raymond Scott's life, its as if the guy never slept. We like that. A lot of people know his music from all those cartoons. But past that, he helped shape music as we know it in the present day. It's those front-line types that go into uncharted areas, and pave the way for others. Always go to the source, sources like Raymond Scott."
Henry Rollins
Black Flag, Rollins Band
"The compositions of Raymond Scott are etched, it seems, into the fabric of 20th century culture like some strand of DNA sequence coding our collective memory for future mutations. F*cking brilliant. Repetitive, with a beat pulse. I look to Raymond Scott as one of the originators of a techno aesthetic."
Paul D. Miller, a.k.a.
DJ SPOOKY that Subliminal Kid
"Being introduced to the music of Raymond Scott was like being given the name of a composer I feel I have heard my whole life, who until now was nameless. Clearly he is a major American composer."
David Harrington
KRONOS QUARTET
"As for millions of other kids raised on Bugs and Daffy, Raymond Scott's wonderful idiosyncratic music seeped into my childhood subconscious and never left. It became the abstract soundtrack to my dreams."
David J
BAUHAUS / Love And Rockets
"MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is a brilliant collection of Raymond Scott's electronic work. I love the packaging, and the interviews are incredibly interesting and informative."
Adrian Utley
PORTISHEAD
"I think MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is one of my favorite releases ever! And that's saying something, as I'm a complete music junkie."
Richard D. James,
APHEX TWIN
"I rate Raymond Scott as one of the greatest music technology innovators the 20th century. Many musicians on the charts today are using his ideas fairly directly. His vision was so wide, that today it is impossible to turn on a piece of equipment in your studio without automatically issuing a benediction to the spirit of Raymond Scott."
Matt Black
DJ FOOD, COLDCUT
"The MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. package is perfect -- and the music is too perfect!"
Konishi
PIZZICATO FIVE
"Raymond Scott's great work left many repercussions in various fields relating to sound. Scientific, futuristic, novel, as well as humorous and dreamlike. Mad, but the kind of mad I aspire to be. Raymond Scott truly was ahead of his time."
CORNELIUS
"Wow wow WOW. It is certainly stunning. MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is a monsterpiece. I'm still trying to digest it!"
Jim Thirlwell
FOETUS
"Whaaaaat?? This is from the fifties and sixties? I'm trying to achieve something like this now! Raymond Scott belongs to the phalanx of unique people like Les Paul, Oscar Sala, and Leon Theremin, to whom we owe so much in developing our own musical identity today. MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is one of the best CD presentations I have ever had my hands on."
Holguer Czukay
CAN
"The tireless dedication and uncompromising perfectionism of producers Gert-Jan Blom and Jeff Winner is evident in every detail of this wonderful collection. From the astonishing sounds to the beautiful packaging, MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is an essential release of pioneer electronica, adding yet another page to the ever-growing legacy of American maverick Raymond Scott."
JOHN ZORN
"Fabulous! MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is one of the most amazing CD packages I've ever seen. I've been listening constantly, and I've read the whole book several times. It's SO inspiring. Scott's electronic instruments have an incredibly organic sound to them."
Eric Harris,
OLIVIA TREMOR CONTROL
"Raymond Scott was a true genius, deserving to be classified among the great pioneers of electronic music. He recorded with his own instruments, and did his own composing. I am amazed by the versatility of his talent, creativity, originality, and imagination. MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC. is a work of art. BRAVO!"
JEAN JACQUES PERREY
"Raymond Scott was the first! He foresaw the use of sequencers, and the use of electronic oscillators, to make sounds. These were the watershed uses of electronic circuitry. His recordings don't sound as weird anymore -- they sound similar to what artists are doing today."
BOB MOOG
Inventor del Sintetizador MOOG
Artista imponente y en él todo fluye. Si en la experiencia quedan tocados, hagan tributo a su obra y de paso sean beneficiados con el goce sonoro.
El primer empujón : http://www.raymondscott.com/
