New Documentary, Podcast, to Feature Synth Pioneer Dave Smith

No Island Media has announced plans to make a documentary and synth tutorials with legendary synth pioneer Dave Smith.

Dave Smith is an American audio engineer who arguably played as large a part as Bob Moog in the development of the modern synthesizer. Smith’s Sequential Circuits created many revered synths, including the Prophet 5 (above right), the first microprocessor-based synth. Smith also proposed the MIDI standard in 1981, which has been incorporated into nearly every synth in the last 25 years.

No Island Media, a digital media production company specializing in short-form reality programmes for and about creative professionals, plans to produce a documentary about Dave Smith and tutorials for the PolyEvolver keyboard.

The documentary begins production in April 28, 06 in St. Helena, California and will be released in May 2006. Free edits of the programming will be formatted for digital download, including free segments for streaming internet, rss/atom feeds, quicktime, windows, bit torrent, phone, psp, tivo and iTunes. Full digital downloads will be available for purchase at noisland.net, at the Google Video Store and select web retailers. The documentary and tutorials will also be available on DVD in June 2006.

“With Dave Smith’s documentary we find the world of micro-production and custom documentaries coming into a new level of maturity.” says No Island’s Executive Director Trevor Andrews.

“This is a major figure in the synthesizer world. This is a man that has empowers and inspired and entertained millions of musicians and music lovers over the past few decades. It is the small production, large distribution paradigm of the new video revolution that allows people around the world to visit with a man of this caliber. Not having to wait for the mass media is at the core of the video revolution.”