Sweet Baby Jesus But This Dude Can Fugue...

This is from some old “Synths Are Frakkin’ Awesome” video of the sort that crop up now and again. Dude’s name is Don Muro, and he’s got a Korg DS-8 and something I can’t quite make out under it, and the whole rig is set up like a dual manual organ with foot pedals. He obviously puts the rig to the test with one of the harder fugues in the Bach cannon (see what I did there? Double pun!), The Gigue Fugue.

I’m a passable keyboard player, but seeing this sort of thing makes me feel like I just started to toddle about. (To preempt the obvious comments that are about to be typed, yeah, it’s 80s-tastic. Yeah, we all looked like tards back then. Yeah, the synth sounds are weak. Deal with it.)

EDIT: Interestingly, the video was removed due to the fact that it said “Played in the style of Wendy Carlos” in the description. Serendip, LLC, which is the company that controls Carlos’ copyrights, is extremely aggressive in sending out takedown notices to YouTube, eBay, et al, as a simple Google search of their name will show.

As I mentioned in the comments, while I certainly understand aggressively protecting your copyright, as that’s your prerogative as a creator, this company (although I think “company” may be a loose term, as it appears to be either Carlos alone, or one dude that works for her) is completely ludicrous in some of its actions. It seems that any mention in the description of a video of her name is grounds for a takedown notice, which is simply silly at best, and at worst a complete and total misunderstanding of what copyright actually means.

In any event, that’s why the video is gone, as far as I can tell. They never contacted me, and honestly, I’d just ignore them if they did, as I’m not the sort that is going to go running to the hills from a stupid nastygram that has no legal basis, but I’m just curious as to what end this serves. It seems to defy logic, as far as I can tell.