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Employee of [[wikipedia:New England Digital|New England Digital Corp.]] who demonstrated the [[Synclavier]] to Zappa. Zappa   Offered him a job operating the Synclavier.
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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.
  
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<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>  
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<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]], ''Sound On Sound'' interview, 1995.</div>
 
<div align=right>— [[Steve De Furia]], ''Sound On Sound'' interview, 1995.</div>
  
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<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>  
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<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]], ''[http://fzpomd.net/mitb/ocker/ The David Ocker Internet 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:
 
[[Steve De Furia]] worked on:
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*[[Thing-Fish]]
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*''[[Thing-Fish]]''
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*[[Francesco Zappa]]
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*''[[Francesco Zappa]]''
  
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[[category:Arrangers|De Furia, Steve]]
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[[Category:Columnists|De Furia, Steve]]

Revision as of 15:57, 16 May 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."

— Steve De Furia, Sound On Sound interview, 1995.

"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."

— David Ocker, The David Ocker Internet Interview, 1995.

Steve De Furia worked on: