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Ron geesin atom heart mother live 20128/23/2023 I was soon playing bits of simplified Bach and the film theme from Genevieve. I got fairly fascinated by the ‘harmonica/mouth organ virtuoso’ Larry Adler, seeing him on the television, and was given a 12-hole chromatic harmonica, maybe when I became 11. Music was not a big part of life: we did have an upright piano on which he stumbled through simplified bits of Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue and popular melodies from the 1930s and ’40s, “Red Sails In The Sunset” and “A Little Bit Independent” for instance, moving back to ragtime later.Īt what age did you begin playing music and what were the first instruments that you played? We moved to Bothwell, Lanarkshire when I was about 3: my father built a bungalow there. My Birth certificate says ‘Stevenston, Ayrshire’, but my mother always said that wasn’t quite correct: it was Kilwinning Maternity Hospital! Stevenston was where I was gestated. Ron Geesin: I was born on the 17th December 1943 at 6.10 am (Scottish birth certificates give the time). To begin with, when and where were you born and was music a big part of life in the Geesin household? “I’m still trying to find out who I became” In the following interview we will discuss the making of Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother, his latest album RonCycle2, recently released book The Flaming Cow and new documentary. Ron Geesin | Interview | “I’m still trying to find out who I became” Ron Geesin is a composer, performer, sound architect, interactive designer, broadcaster, writer and lecturer.
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