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The air-con system at my incubator finally heard my complains. The compressor went dead and no more north pole air. It just blew warm air. I thought it would be good but it turns out bad. My body got dehydrated. After a day of that I finally got sick. It started last Friday. My most productive moments during weekend were lost. The air-con technicians don't work on weekends though the incubator operates 24/7.
So I just lazed around watched movies and played my keyboard. I remember when I was experimenting with synthesizer I learned the theory of pitch/frequency, harmonics and timbre. Then I discovered about velocity. I came to know that keyboard especially piano are not just on/off switches. It has expression which is the velocity. Just like the piano hammer. But keyboard controllers for synthesizers back then produce only two informations, on/off and variable voltage that determined the pitch/frequency.
So it was time for me to get into music school and learned classical piano. I ate and sleep piano and only listen to classical. During that time I heard about the album 'Switch On Bach' by Walter Carlos from references in electronic-classical music discussions. I bought the album and fell in love with Bach. Played it loud everyday. The mix of moog and Bach kind of toggling many switches in my brain. Many were positives.

The vinyl album is not with me. It is at my dad's. I just can't afford to carry a big bunch of vinyl around. Instead I watch a movie of similar theme, electronic, music, classical and computers. The best match was 'Electric Dream'. It was released in 1984 but I only had the chance to see it end of 2004. This is my favourite Bach piece, minuet in G major with improvisation by Giorgio Moroder and my favourite scene with the lovely Virginia Madsen:

By the year 1984 synthesizers had become more sophisticated with fully MIDI implementation. The music for the above scene done by Giorgio Moroder was done almost entirely with synthesizers. To bring back memories or for those who don't you can always add one, here is the music clip of Electric Dream sung by Philip Oakley:

So the story ended with the couple going off for the weekend break. The one that lost the love had to go away. I myself will be going away soon but to meet the ones I love. I will be going down south for the World Flower Festival in a couple of hours and meeting my dad, sister and niece. It's time to go away..........