Malcolm Cecil on Creating TONTO

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National Music Centre

National Music Centre

Күн бұрын

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@andrewwilliams9599
@andrewwilliams9599 Жыл бұрын
The electronic Stonehenge. Long may it produce glorious new sounds.
@psmith3001
@psmith3001 7 ай бұрын
Wrong, there is nothing new under the sun - so get over it!
@RadioCamp
@RadioCamp Жыл бұрын
Back in 1977 I was the morning DJ at a tiny AM/FM station in Mendocino, California. Of course "Songs in the Key" of Life was spinning a lot. One morning I commented on the ultra-tight horn section on "I Wish." A woman called and said "those aren't real horns, it's a synth." What??? Next thing I knew she'd arranged for Malcolm Cecil (who I guess was living locally at the time) to come by the studio for an interview. Wow!
@janatanelmodickie4801
@janatanelmodickie4801 7 ай бұрын
The album specifically credits musicians for the horns on its sleeve. Was Motown telling the porky pies?😮
@jazzbo251
@jazzbo251 6 ай бұрын
The horns on I WIsh are live, and Margouleff and Cecil were not working with Stevie on Songs in the Key of Life. They worked together on the Stevie's Music of My Mind through Fulfillingness First Finale (and some other albums by Syreeta Wright and Minnie Riperton).
@RadioCamp
@RadioCamp 6 ай бұрын
@@jazzbo251I stand corrected! :-)
@benkleschinsky
@benkleschinsky 4 жыл бұрын
It would have been amazing to be a fly on the wall when guys like Stevie Wonder and Weather Report were using this to make their albums in the 70's. This is an absolute incredible piece of music history. I'm glad it's been preserved.
@thejoe5722
@thejoe5722 2 ай бұрын
R.I.P Malcolm! Was a really cool dude , did some work building a new shed for him a couple months before he passed
@thesoundsmith
@thesoundsmith 7 ай бұрын
"From the front, it's got to be playable and from the back it's got to be _serviceable._ H"ow true. I gave up trying to create an amalgam of Arp 2600, Roland System 100, a row of PAIA modules and "keyboard." when it started to look like an Escher print... Great job, sir. , Respect, Rest In Passion, you'd be bored with 'peace'...
@donaldpriola1807
@donaldpriola1807 3 жыл бұрын
Malcom was one of the coolest. RIP.
@mikeschneider901
@mikeschneider901 3 жыл бұрын
I knew Malcomb quite well and he was always a joy to work with. I miss him.
@BenticSebastian
@BenticSebastian 3 жыл бұрын
RIP Malcolm Cecil.
@benaustin6361
@benaustin6361 3 жыл бұрын
RIP Malcolm. Thank you for helping to create the sonic landscape of my childhood and for managing to not only craft amazing music technology, but for building the relationship with perhaps the greatest creator of music using those tools. Much appreciated.
@smd1uk
@smd1uk Жыл бұрын
I noticed the sequencer keyboard from a Synthi AKS stashed away in there.
@hintoninstruments2369
@hintoninstruments2369 7 ай бұрын
Malcolm had several EMS products. This is what he told me in 2007: "I still have a 256 sequencer and a smaller sequencer with a "painted" keyboard and perspex cover as well as a Cricklewood keyboard and a couple of the thin blue AKS sequencers. The 256 hasn't worked in a while - we rehoused it to fit TONTO but it got replaced with a computer based unit back in the early 90's. I also still have an EMS octave filter bank and a pitch to voltage converter - neither of which have been used for ages but were working fine last time they were played with."
@smd1uk
@smd1uk 7 ай бұрын
@@hintoninstruments2369 I swapped my AKS sequencer keyboard for a DK2 way back in the 70s and I’ve regretted it ever since.
@michaelwilde2209
@michaelwilde2209 3 жыл бұрын
About Time was one of the best and most amazing albums of all time ,sad to hear of Malcolms passing a true pioneer of music
@davidhall3747
@davidhall3747 Жыл бұрын
I was curious about Stevie Wonder's Synthesizer Arrangement and this Video popped up. An amazing arrangement indeed. I'm a multi- Instrumentalist.
@troy8420
@troy8420 3 жыл бұрын
I love his outfit
@CraigMansfield
@CraigMansfield 3 жыл бұрын
Airways knew the synths, but never knew the man who put it all together. I'm sorry to learn of him by his "passing". Sympathy to everybody who feels this loss
@karlmckinnell2635
@karlmckinnell2635 7 ай бұрын
Every mad scientists dream 😊. So amazing to learn about this instrument.
@seankellymurray
@seankellymurray Жыл бұрын
Truly amazing level of design, Malcolm Cecil a genius and visionary in his time.
@axs203
@axs203 3 жыл бұрын
We have lots of things today in our computers but this is much more magical
@infinit12
@infinit12 7 ай бұрын
Brilliant. the small detail of adding a faraday cage is genius!
@benkleschinsky
@benkleschinsky 4 жыл бұрын
This should have a million views. Incredible.
@soloharmonicsrobj8246
@soloharmonicsrobj8246 Жыл бұрын
This is an amazing setup, and so many great electronic instruments in one arena. I've heard Tonto's Expanding Headband on a late night radio show titled Hearts Of Space.
@loskioskbears
@loskioskbears 3 жыл бұрын
So sad to hear that he left us today. BTW, this video is very interesting, but the sound of the synth itself is way too low in the mix. I can hardly hear it!
@TheScreamingFrog916
@TheScreamingFrog916 3 жыл бұрын
It may sound weird, but I have been a huge fan of TONTO, the synth, since I first saw it, in the Phantom of the Paradise movie. Already being a synth freak as a teenager, seeing TONTO in the movie, absolutely blew my mind. Had wet dreams about it for years, after that. Sadly I did not find out about these KZbin videos about it, until after Malcom's passing.
@plane_guy6051
@plane_guy6051 4 ай бұрын
Wow, I never knew Tonto was the setup used in Phantom of the Paradise but that all makes sense now. I thought the thing in Phantom was just some nonexistent prop but that is SO cool to know it was real. That's crazy -- I just looked and it's on KZbin kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWOtcoWCmbupa6M I always loved when Paul Williams took the final sheet music from Winslow who's passed out from working all night, and says something like 'brick him in', and they put a wall up to 'try' to kill Winslow, which of course he busts out of, but the whole script is such a hilarious and scathing take on the music industry, and then of course Winslow literally getting disfigured by the hot plastic in the record pressing machine. It's was really quite well done.
@TheScreamingFrog916
@TheScreamingFrog916 4 ай бұрын
@@plane_guy6051 so glad I helped you find this. Already being a synth nut at the time, my eyes almost popped out, when I saw it in the movie theater. Only many years later, with the help of the internet, did I learn about TONTO, and its importance in the music world. So grateful for information age. Thanks for the message and have a great day :-)
@jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171
@jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171 3 жыл бұрын
THIS tendency towards favoring a system that is as completely flexible as is possible, within the realm of the time when it was used. It’s a contagious endeavor. We’ve all been to the club or seen films with the DJ, holding up his headphones to hear the queued up channel that isn’t playing through the PA, so he can hear the channel that he’s going to bring in without disappointing the audience by forcing them the agony of listening to the parts they don’t want to hear. This system takes that to a whole other level. Super easy to isolate channels, and to let the performers hear the stuff that they don’t want the audience to hear. Pretty neat to think of that wire coming from the Apollo missions and NASA. That should be some extra robust wire. I wish I could get my hands on some of that wire. THANKS FOR SHARING THIS! This is a great glimpse of the reasons behind the madness!!
@jowlorenz9555
@jowlorenz9555 3 жыл бұрын
Controls to thee mothership !
@diogosimoes7445
@diogosimoes7445 Жыл бұрын
Here before The Weeknd's new album!!
@MikeJohnson-wc2rn
@MikeJohnson-wc2rn 7 ай бұрын
My parents had an awesome album from the 70s that was called Tonto's Expanding Head Band. My Dad always told me it was the 1st purely synth based record. It had a way trippy sleeve. Was really good. Im pretty sure that this was the gear responsible for creating it.
@glenncurry3041
@glenncurry3041 7 ай бұрын
"Zero Time" by TONTO's Expanding Head Band! I still have my copy! Herbie Mann was executive producer!
@apexone5502
@apexone5502 4 ай бұрын
Those “Soothing Sounds for Baby” albums from 1962 by Raymond Scott were all synth.
@derekrevell
@derekrevell 3 жыл бұрын
Wow! didn't expect to see an EMS KS keyboard as part of TONTO
@DjangoWineHeart
@DjangoWineHeart 7 ай бұрын
That's some mad genius type sh*t!
@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598
@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598 3 жыл бұрын
I really wanna see a full documentary on this coolest instruments I think I ever seen
@iandean9392
@iandean9392 3 жыл бұрын
Remembering Malcolm Cecil
@pedroeustache5511
@pedroeustache5511 3 жыл бұрын
SUCH GENIUS !! BEYOND REMARKABLE!!
@joehiggs100
@joehiggs100 Жыл бұрын
Great thanks! Revolutionary.
@chromepanther9612
@chromepanther9612 3 жыл бұрын
Malcolm was the fucking man! Absolute genius and legend.
@Nillbor9641
@Nillbor9641 19 күн бұрын
So freaking cool
@colinmorgan6733
@colinmorgan6733 3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic to see and hear that that Malcom's and Robert's legacy has been preserved. Was quiet a thing in it's day and still is.
@glenncurry3041
@glenncurry3041 7 ай бұрын
I still have my original copy of Zero Time!
@synkrotron
@synkrotron 4 жыл бұрын
Excellent! Thank you :-)
@manuelgonzales6483
@manuelgonzales6483 2 ай бұрын
AMAZING 😮
@KozmykJ
@KozmykJ 3 жыл бұрын
Rave On Malcom Cecil
@patrickbodine6010
@patrickbodine6010 3 жыл бұрын
The legacy of a genius.
@markross2426
@markross2426 3 жыл бұрын
Fantastic film thanks for sharing
@HarrySteed
@HarrySteed Жыл бұрын
❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥
@DelmaRaySmithJr
@DelmaRaySmithJr 7 ай бұрын
wow
@LeeBarry
@LeeBarry 3 жыл бұрын
Perhaps in the future you could use a BCI and control iit with brain waves. (I was not aware he had passed...RIP)
@gdynk
@gdynk 4 жыл бұрын
This is so cool
@robinwatson4282
@robinwatson4282 Жыл бұрын
All now available at a laptop near you at approximately 1/10,000 of the cost.
@astrojazzman
@astrojazzman 4 жыл бұрын
I wonder what Bruse Haack or Sun Ra would do with this synthesizer? 🎹🎹🎹
@jowlorenz9555
@jowlorenz9555 3 жыл бұрын
This is what the control panel of sun ra's spaceship look like .
@MrDennismcmahon
@MrDennismcmahon 3 жыл бұрын
wow moon pups dad wish i could have met him
@cyborgmetropolis7652
@cyborgmetropolis7652 3 жыл бұрын
I heard modular synthesis can be addictive.
@minimoog4236
@minimoog4236 Жыл бұрын
So Tonto is basically a super-duper expanded VCS3?
@jimmywhyte7181
@jimmywhyte7181 7 ай бұрын
The Michael Rosen of synthesisers.
@eyesintheskies
@eyesintheskies 7 ай бұрын
If you ever worry your eurocrack habit has got outta hand come back hear and ease your fear👍
@thebman80
@thebman80 5 ай бұрын
Until I actually saw someone standing right up next to Tonto, I thought it looked much taller than it actually was.
@LifetimeTravelmates
@LifetimeTravelmates Жыл бұрын
bring the tonto pronto
@jennifyrgilmore2441
@jennifyrgilmore2441 4 жыл бұрын
Imagine if Charles Ives had had TONTO to work out his compositions....
@Ray_Wood_1984
@Ray_Wood_1984 7 ай бұрын
🙇‍♂️💓🍀🎶
@MehdiJafri-y5z
@MehdiJafri-y5z 8 ай бұрын
Is there a plug in for this? I wanna put it on my DAW.
@hansmittendorf
@hansmittendorf Жыл бұрын
is there a continuation of this video?
@OldRunt
@OldRunt Ай бұрын
How did you control the noise?
@RaquelFoster
@RaquelFoster 7 ай бұрын
He's just going to give zero credit to Robert Margouleff? Robert was his partner on the TONTO albums and the four Stevie albums. Robert is the one who showed him how to use a Moog. The first synth put in TONTO was Robert Margouleff's personal Moog. Most pictures of TONTO show both of them. They both won a grammy together. And Stevie listed both of them (and listed Robert first) in the producer credits on all four albums. But I'm sure Malcolm did most of the wiring for TONTO, since he was the engineer who built electronics. Malcolm is the mad scientist. Pete Townsend also said that Malcolm loved to show off, and he saw Malcolm destroy a bass and that's what gave Pete the idea to start destroying guitars on stage. Robert was the chill stoner.
@baddriddimworkshop
@baddriddimworkshop 6 ай бұрын
damn is that 2600 greassy looking
@popitinpete
@popitinpete 7 ай бұрын
No EMS?
@tiefighter3445
@tiefighter3445 3 жыл бұрын
RIP
@vinsflokor
@vinsflokor 3 жыл бұрын
Who's the arranger and conductor of Stevie that Malcolm was referring to? I can't understand his/her name, could anybody help me out?
@huskydaddy-y5y
@huskydaddy-y5y 6 ай бұрын
I’m not sure if he was an “arranger” but the other man/engineer that worked with Malcolm Cecil building T.O.N.T.O. Robert Margouleff. There’s an amazing interview titled; “Producing Stevie Wonder & the Synth that Changed Music Robert Margouleff story” on KZbin. He talks about building tonto and first meeting Stevie to recording with him and other artists. Absolutely captivating geniuses in there time!!!!
@eyesintheskies
@eyesintheskies 7 ай бұрын
Power cables from the Apollo mission 🤯😂
@relentlesseducator
@relentlesseducator 6 ай бұрын
Sounds like a line from an Action Bronson verse
@MrMassivefavour
@MrMassivefavour 7 ай бұрын
No Cecil, Townshend, Jarre or Kraftwork. No modern popular music.
@kellymelrose8527
@kellymelrose8527 7 ай бұрын
you wouldnt want keith emerson anywhere near that..
@huskydaddy-y5y
@huskydaddy-y5y 6 ай бұрын
Keith would’ve flipped it down on top of himself while playing upside down and backwards……..maybe adding some flames!!!! RIP Keith!!!
@Professor_Bugs
@Professor_Bugs 5 ай бұрын
I just want deadmau5 to make an album with it.
@NationalMusicCentre
@NationalMusicCentre 5 ай бұрын
That would be legendary!
@RodrickColbert
@RodrickColbert 3 жыл бұрын
Wow,! Did he ever work with Kraftwerk? Duran Duran?
@Imetalman2000
@Imetalman2000 3 жыл бұрын
Guy spends several minutes breaking down the sequencer. “See it’s easy to use” me: 😅 okay buddy.
@cvp1969
@cvp1969 4 жыл бұрын
Is Arturia going to do a VST?
@somenamelessdude8095
@somenamelessdude8095 6 ай бұрын
Operating this makes a house dj look like a poser.
@go5582
@go5582 6 ай бұрын
this is a computer.
@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598
@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598 3 жыл бұрын
Ableton and Logic ain’t got shit on this
@englishjona6458
@englishjona6458 7 ай бұрын
This guy don’t know what half that stuff is loool
@OrbvsTomarvm
@OrbvsTomarvm 7 ай бұрын
ive heard better sounding farts 🤦🏻‍♂
@charbokh
@charbokh 4 жыл бұрын
Tonto means dumb in Spanish.
@patrickbodine6010
@patrickbodine6010 3 жыл бұрын
TONTO is an acronym: The Original New Timbral Orchestra The music is the meaning, not simply a translated name.
@jowlorenz9555
@jowlorenz9555 3 жыл бұрын
Kemosabi means nerd in cherokee.
@jvf6257
@jvf6257 3 жыл бұрын
Wonder who’s the TONTO to waste all that $ with not lucrative end.
@jowlorenz9555
@jowlorenz9555 3 жыл бұрын
No wonder the lone ranger wears that mask .
@UKMikey
@UKMikey 4 ай бұрын
Some things are worth more than money.
@lex3729
@lex3729 7 ай бұрын
Iconic Personification of a Mad Scientist!
@AI-Consultant
@AI-Consultant Жыл бұрын
I won a tonto, we converted our basement home gym to a Tonto room, i go down there for hours and realize how lucky I am and you are not. Thank you to nobody but myself.
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