Rick Jansen wrote:
Dirk Matten wrote:
In 1977 and 1978 all percussion work was done by Matten & Wiechers Synthanorma Sequenzer incl. the lovely Intervallomat with The Triggersumme (6 rows à 16 steps), brain of the Mensch-Maschine. All programming was done by Hütter & Schneider. Mr. Flür had the switch the switches.
At least by 1981 both Fluer and Bartos were needed for manual percussion too. Fluer was playing a thing with rows of switches, each triggering a drum pattern, apart from the electric drum kit with the knitting needles. Bartos was mostly playing bass lines, and e.g. the theme melody of Spiegelsaal, and sometimes playing that (second) drum kit too. On TEE there's even a bit a missing beat somewhere. Does the Synthanorma miss beats, Dirk? ;-)
------------- I noticed missing beats, and I believe that was left in on purpose; it shows the human element. In fact they missed the RIGHT beats ;-) amir