Way back in the 90s, Pea was filmed for inclusion in a documentary about collectors by filmmaker Rodney Ascher. The film never got finished, but the footage has now resurfaced as a stand-alone episode of this podcast.
That is a fascinating video there Pea. There really needs to be a documentary movie made about you and the Optigan. I for one find the subject matter extremely interesting as I am into collecting obscure, forgotten, and abandoned media formats.
Would there ever be an attempt to either duplicate some of the rarer Optigan® discs or maybe transfer some of the Orchestron samples over to the Optigan® format and sell the discs from your website? I would love to turn my Optigan®, as crappy as it is, into a low budget mellotron. It is too bad that those samples/sounds are copyrighted or are they?
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May 25, 2015 at 3:45 am
That is a fascinating video there Pea. There really needs to be a documentary movie made about you and the Optigan. I for one find the subject matter extremely interesting as I am into collecting obscure, forgotten, and abandoned media formats.
Would there ever be an attempt to either duplicate some of the rarer Optigan® discs or maybe transfer some of the Orchestron samples over to the Optigan® format and sell the discs from your website? I would love to turn my Optigan®, as crappy as it is, into a low budget mellotron. It is too bad that those samples/sounds are copyrighted or are they?
thanks