Extremely influential composer and synthesizer creator Peter Zinovieff has handed away on the age of 88 after struggling a fall at his dwelling.
Zinovieff created the corporate Digital Music Studios (EMS), one of many first outfits to convey synthesizers to the general public. The advertising and marketing slogan “consider a sound—now make it” was the concept behind the synths produced by EMS, who crafted merchandise such because the transportable VCS3 and Synthi A. Each devices have been utilized by iconic musicians reminiscent of Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Beatles, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, and lots of extra.
Jarre—amongst many others—took to Twitter to pay tribute to the late synth pioneer. “Thanks Peter, the daddy of the VCS3 and the AKS, I owe you a lot,” he wrote.
The London native not solely revolutionized digital music by his groundbreaking work on synthesizers, but additionally as a virtuosic composer and vanguard of AI composition and the strategy of sampling, which he claims to have invented.
Zinovieff additionally labored on an digital music collective often known as Unit Delta Plus with Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, who created the Physician Who theme music by synthesizers from EMS.