Jean-Jacques Perrey, one of the pioneers of making the synthesizer a showpiece for pop music, died on November 4th. Along with Juan Garcia Esquivel, Wendy Carlos, Gershon Kingsley, Brian Eno, Raymond Scott, Isao Tomita and dozens of others, Perrey took electronic music out of the hands of Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage and gave it […]