Subatomic Pop: Composing an Electronic Symphony

Joshua Davis: a listening session with Curtis Roads

"...I'm listening to that piece at his home studio in Santa Barbara, California. A dense wall of sound reverberates from a pair of $8,000 Bowers & Wilkins speakers. Roads shakes his head sadly — it just doesn't sound right to him. At this point the only thing he's sure of is the track's title: 1987, the year he started to compose it."

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[via wired.com]