Synthesiser pioneer and composer Peter Zinovieff dies aged 88
Peter Zinovieff, the British composer and pioneer of the synthesiser, has died aged 88.
As revealed by composer James Gardner and reported by the Guardian, the artist had suffered a fall at his residence earlier this month and been in hospital for 10 days.
With a heavy coronary heart, I’m sorry to substantiate the dying on Wednesday night of Peter Zinovieff, composer, founding father of EMS, and pioneer of laptop music within the UK,” Gardner wrote on Twitter. “He was 88, and had been in hospital for 10 days following a fall at his residence.”
With a heavy coronary heart, I’m sorry to substantiate the dying on Wednesday night of Peter Zinovieff, composer, founding father of EMS, and pioneer of laptop music within the UK. He was 88, and had been in hospital for 10 days following a fall at his residence. pic.twitter.com/pS10HkyM2x
— James Gardner (@JEGcomposer) June 26, 2021
Zinovieff’s firm Digital Music Studios (EMS) was one of many first to make synthesisers publicly out there, and he was stated to have bought the devices to the likes of The Beatles, David Bowie, Kraftwerk and Pink Floyd, even instructing lots of them easy methods to use his creations.
In a 2015 interview with the Guardian, Zinovieff spoke of how he taught Ringo Starr easy methods to use considered one of his bestselling synths, the VCS3.
“I had a pleasant time instructing Ringo Starr easy methods to use it,” he stated. “I’d go to his home in Hampstead. He wasn’t notably good. However then neither was I.”
Zinovieff additionally collaborated with Paul McCartney in 1967 on the unreleased composition ‘Carnival of Mild’. “I’d prefer to get in contact with him about it,” he informed the Guardian, hinting that he would need the piece to see the sunshine of day. “However I’m fairly in awe – how do you get in contact with God?”
Following information of his dying, tributes have been paid on social media, with these remembering Zinovieff’s expertise and pioneering synthesisers, in addition to reminiscences from those that realized in regards to the devices from the person himself.
Very unhappy information.
Peter Zinovieff has handed away. Endlessly grateful for the music and the existence of EMS synthesizers pic.twitter.com/kXinWJNTwg— Jameszoo (@Jameszooo) June 26, 2021
R.I.P Peter Zinovieff. A sonic Visionary with out whom…. pic.twitter.com/P56zLUgow4
— Eccentronic Analysis Council (@The_E_R_C) June 26, 2021
RIP Peter Zinovieff. Horrible information. Peter was a real unique. I spent a day with him as soon as, studying about synthesizers at his home in Cambridge. I interviewed him, we ate lunch, and his pretty spouse gave me a tour of the city. He had an unbelievable life story, & was so humorous too. https://t.co/VI8ZJP5nhb
— Geeta Dayal (@geetadayal) June 26, 2021
RIP Peter Zinovieff – pioneer ?
I’ll be giving my VSC3 oscillator card for the Buchla a wiggle later in your honour. pic.twitter.com/hE7TI8FJnC
— FieldLinesCartographer (@ImpulseArray) June 26, 2021
Zinovieff is survived by his fourth spouse, Jenny Jardine, and 6 kids, Sofka, Leo, Kolinka, Freya, Kitty and Eliena.