Of course these days we take synthesizers for granted and their infinite variety of sounds can be enjoyed for what they are. In earlier times however synthesizers were mysterious and worrisome fakery, capable of emulating the sounds of classical instruments, from french horn, to strings, to xylophone, and thereby putting the countless members of limitless orchestra members out of a job.
It’s a situation that’s currently neatly being being echoed in today's mither around AI and whether the inevitable onslaught of technology will prove to be a force for good for music – making new sounds and styles possible – or whether it will step in and usurp everything we know and love in favour of something worse.
