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Topic: Steel Podcast Episode 4: Jeff Snyder, Electrosteel creator |
Matt Perpick
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Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2023 1:57 pm |
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Hello!
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I'm very excited to share Episode 4 of Steel. I chat with Jeff Snyder, the director of Electronic music at Princeton University and the creator of the Electrosteel, a super cool new pedal steel synthesizer. The Electrosteel is played with a bar, has pedals and knee levers and looks like a pedal steel, but all the sound is generated electronically. Sometimes it sounds like a steel and sometimes it sounds like anything but.
Jeff is a pretty fascinating character and a bit of polymath. It takes a wide range of skills - understand the steel, circuits, hardware, software, music, etc - to pull off a project like this and Jeff made it happen. He's also a composer, a performer, designs other instruments and plays steel. We have a pretty wide-ranging chat about Jeff's musical life, his compositions, his instruments and of course, the we go pretty deep on origins and design of the Electrosteel. I am not a synth guy, so I learned a ton doing this interview and had a blast trying this fascinating new instrument.
I hope you all enjoy.
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Dan Robinson
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2023 9:53 am
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Thanks, Matt! I'm intrigued and will be listening to The Steel Guitar Podcast today.
Some interesting stuff there. November 30th episode with Jeff Snyder, November 1st episode with Steve Fishell. |
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Slim Heilpern
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Aptos California, USA
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Posted 9 Dec 2023 6:36 am
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Finally had time to listen all the way through -- really great interview! Having worked with many synths over the years (both as a musician and working with synth builders as a software engineer) I found Jeff's creativity, brilliance, and determination to be fascinating.
Thanks so much for conducting these great interviews Matt!
- Slim
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Chromatic Harmonica, Guitar, and Pedal Steel (Williams U12 Series 700, Emmons lap)
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Ross Shafer
From:
Petaluma, California
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Posted 9 Dec 2023 9:32 am
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Jeff is an awesome and brilliant guy. I find what he's doing super exciting. The interview is fantastic, learned so much more about synths than I ever knew before.
Thanks to Matt for this awesome podcast series! |
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Joe Kaufman
From:
Lewiston, Idaho
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Posted 4 Jan 2024 8:07 am
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| I enjoyed the interview very much. Shared with a talented high school senior I know who wants to double major in electrical engineering and jazz composition. |
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Ellen Angelico
From:
Tennessee, USA
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Posted 4 Jan 2024 6:39 pm
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Matt, this conversation was awesome. I loved learning from Jeff. I also really appreciated your questions! You are always a good conversationalist in the way you coax insights out of your guests (I especially enjoyed the Rich Hinman episode) but in this episode, you asked exactly the questions I was wondering! Like when he was demonstrating the first on-board synth sound and you asked if he could do it again with pedals and levers.
I can't wait for more episodes! Thanks for making such an interesting show. |
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