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| − | + | '''Steve De Furia''' was an employee of [[wikipedia:New England Digital|New England Digital Corp.]] who demonstrated the [[Synclavier]] to Frank Zappa. Zappa offered him a job operating the Synclavier. | |
| − | <blockquote>My first experience as a software designer was writing a set of composition programs for [[Frank Zappa]]. Those programs got me very deep into computer programming. Before that, I'd never really written any software.</blockquote> | + | <blockquote>''"My first experience as a software designer was writing a set of composition programs for [[Biography|Frank Zappa]]. Those programs got me very deep into computer programming. Before that, I'd never really written any software."''</blockquote> |
| − | <div align=right>[[Steve De Furia]] | + | <div align=right>— [[Steve De Furia]], ''Sound On Sound'' interview, 1995.</div> |
| − | </div> | ||
| − | <blockquote>He taught me a lot about the Synclavier - and he actually wrote software that we used. In fact, I got switched over from copying to Synclavier because Steve really wasn't available for as much work as Frank wanted done. Steve wrote a column in Keyboard magazine after that for a while.</blockquote> | + | <blockquote>''"He taught me a lot about the [[Synclavier]] - and he actually wrote software that we used. In fact, I got switched over from copying to Synclavier because [[Steve De Furia|Steve]] really wasn't available for as much work as Frank wanted done. Steve wrote a column in Keyboard magazine after that for a while."''</blockquote> |
| − | <div align=right>[[David Ocker]] Interview 1995</div> | + | <div align=right>— [[David Ocker]], ''[http://fzpomd.net/mitb/ocker/ The David Ocker Internet Interview]'', 1995.</div> |
| − | + | [[Steve De Furia]] worked on: | |
| + | *''[[Thing-Fish]]'' | ||
| + | *''[[Francesco Zappa]]'' | ||
| − | [[ | + | He is also mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of ''[[The MOFO Project/Object (Fazedooh)|The MOFO Project/Object]]'' (2006) album. <ref>http://donlope.net/fz/notes/The_MOFO_Project_Object.html#Contributors</ref> |
| − | + | ==Sources== | |
| + | <references/> | ||
| − | + | [[category:Arrangers|De Furia, Steve]] | |
| − | + | [[Category:Columnists|De Furia, Steve]] | |
| − | [[ | + | [[Category:The MOFO Project/Object (The List)|De Furia, Steve]] |
Latest revision as of 14:05, 4 July 2026
Steve De Furia was an employee of New England Digital Corp. who demonstrated the Synclavier to Frank Zappa. Zappa offered him a job operating the Synclavier.
"My first experience as a software designer was writing a set of composition programs for Frank Zappa. Those programs got me very deep into computer programming. Before that, I'd never really written any software."
"He taught me a lot about the Synclavier - and he actually wrote software that we used. In fact, I got switched over from copying to Synclavier because Steve really wasn't available for as much work as Frank wanted done. Steve wrote a column in Keyboard magazine after that for a while."
Steve De Furia worked on:
He is also mentioned and thanked in the liner notes of The MOFO Project/Object (2006) album. [1]
