I got a text message from the Cropredy Festival in the UK: ‘Any searching questions 4 rick wakeman?’
‘What became of the Birotron,’ I replied.
‘Is that serious?’
‘Yep, a keyboard he was developing with dave biro’
And with that, my brother was off to talk to ‘keyboard wizard’ Rick Wakeman.
A while later I got this: ’14 left. He has not got 1. Would love 1. 10 thou dollars plus 4 non-working model’
With the recent arrest of an Italian man for firing a rifle into the air and then ramming a public bar with his car, and the earlier arrest of a man for the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy in Durban, you can’t deny that the sound of vuvuzela trumpets – wherever they are played – has had an impact beyond that of celebrating football in South Africa (including broadcast complications). It's been dubbed 'vuvuzela rage' by some of the popular press.
Having moved its mixing console production operation from it home in Regensdorf, Switzerland, to its expanding headquarters in the UK, Soundcraft Studer could have taken the opportunity to unencumber itself of a large amount of old equipment, pictures and archives. Thankfully, it has not…
It is with immense excitement that I welcome you to Fast-and-Wide.com, a new blog/website with an agenda that reflects its name.
Although 'Fast-and-Wide' is taken from the generic description of high-performance digital bus, it also neatly fits the need for information exchange if we are to make the most of unprecedentedly rapid technological advance and the fallout from global recession.