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Episode 72 – Yes Music and Technology

Geoff Downes and Fairlight synth on the Drama tour. Photo by Jeremy North
Geoff Downes and Fairlight synth on the Drama tour. Photo by Jeremy North

The seventy-second episode of the Yes Music Podcast featuring some thoughts about Yes music and its relationship with technology.

Listen and see if you agree with me, then let me know by contacting me via any of the different routes on the right hand side or by leaving a comment below!

  • Would Yes music exist without technology?
  • What is musical technology?
  • Has Yes music relied too much on technology at any point?

Please send in photographs of your favourite Yes-related memorabilia

  1. Upload your photograph (with your name in the title) via the page here.
  2. Let me know what you have uploaded and why via the contact form here or by leaving a voicemail on the telephone number on the right or via the green ‘Record a message’ button.

If you need to you can use the usual email address instead: show@yesmusicpodcast.com

This can be any kind of Yes item – it doesn’t need to be rare or valuable – we are just interested in the story behind it and why it means so much to you. (By uploading, you agree to let me add your photograph to a YouTube video and to re-tell your story on the podcast.)

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Theme music

The music I use is the last movement of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. This has been used as introduction music at many Yes concerts. My theme music is not take from a live concert – I put it together from the following two creative commons sources:

thanvannispen and archive.org

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