The Original New Timbral Orchestra
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- Malcolm Cecil - one half of TONTO's Expanding Head Band - shows you around The Original New Timbral Orchestra. Called TONTO for short, this super synthesiser was used on Stevie Wonder's classic albums from the early 1970s, namely Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale. TONTO also appeared on albums by The Isley Brothers, DEVO, Gil Scott-Heron, George Harrison, Jeff Beck, Steve Hillage, Billy Preston and many more.
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R.I.P Malcolm Cecil 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
thank you for your work in synthesis the bob moog foundation has told us of your recent passing. people should know that his work on tonto is in calgary at the national music center museum . it is an incredible machine
Hi, Malcolm Cecil here. Thanks for all your wonderful comments - much appreciated. I have just released iTONTO the app. Its not a playable iOS recreation of TONTO - it is the complete documentation and user manual with over 400 zoomable pics of the front and back of every module including schematics, diagrams, layouts and detailed descriptions. Here is the link appsto.re/us/f4ys9.i
+Malcolm Cecil Fantastic! I bought Zero Time and 'Rides Again' soon after they were released... pioneering electronics.
Your Incredible!!!!!!
Malcolm Cecil Hello there!! This is Brian,you allowed me to be in your Class for both seasons @Columbia/Greene! You taught Michael,and Tyler my sons! I am still in awe of the Wonderful Man/Musician you are! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing me to learn so much from you! You Sir...are Truly a Gentleman,and a Beautiful Soul!!! God bless you! Forever Thankful
May you rest in peace my good sir.
RIP Sir Malcolm
Missing Malcolm Cecil today, but glad that so many others--including his original musical partner, Robert Margouleff--are still at it, innovating and creating new sounds.
Someday the world will see . The true work. The searching. The struggle to finally express. The joy. Is unmeasurable
...the genius!
Wonderful. Zero Time is a brilliant album. What fantastic musical equipment we see in that studio.
Wow...I've got all of this in a little box on my desk.
"Zer☼ Time" was such a groundbreaking release;still got the '71 vinyl version.
RIP - malcolm cecil The sinth King
A seminal work and beautiful music
i remember T.O.N.T.O as the foundation of the musical experience shared on the Stairsteps Album dated 1975 entitled the 2nd Resurrection, it was a true marvel, so to finally have it explained is truly enlightening
I'll never be grateful enough for your créations, soundmaking, time, interest, love of music. I'm "born" with your sounds, I'd like to leave this life proud of sharing the same lifetime as yours, it's a great honnor for me because it reminds me so many "warm,sweet and happy" moments. You, Mr Bob Margouleff, Mr Wonder, you 've changed my life . Keep on please . Thank You very very much . Deeply . Fr
This is just wonderful! Lovely sounds! Thank you for your madness and music!
Exactly the video I dreamed to see, a complete detailed presentation of TONTO by Malcom Cecil himself.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!😁👍
Wow - I love it how he integrated that system; looks like a miniature version of the Enterprise bridge. Except cooler! :-)
That’s my favorite song from the album
stevies music never sounded the same after he stopped working with this guy
Rave On Malcom Cecil 💫
I`ve been waiting years to be reminded TOTO was the album i bought with a cute tune on it...i was tv engineer for the 70`s plus and semipro keys.vocals still looking for test card music so thanks
amazing
Hey Malcolm - Glad to see you getting your story be told and heard on CZcams. This is Liv at Invincible Recordings.... You sold me one of Steve Wonders 8 voice Oberhiems years ago which got a lot of love:) Thanks for sharing your visions and heart with us all.
Hey that's the amazing studio from phantom of the paradize ... it was a dream to visit it , now in video , thanks so much. i'ts so so amazing....
Hi Malcolm, I remember visiting you in Topanga Canyon ( I think it was) many years ago with Pete Bardens. We dropped by and said Hi to you and your wife. Was amazing. Nice to see this video :)
I was listening to the same programme. Very interesting, never knew about the Stevie Wonder Tonto Exploding Headband connection. Thanks for the tour Malcolm. I'd like to see more of it.
Malcolm Cecil is involved in The Weeknd’s next album. Both of them already worked together before his death. The Weeknd posted a photo of him in his studio
G.E.N.I.O.U.S!!!!
You are in fact mistaken. Malcolm has always owned TONTO, although it was set up in Mothersbaugh's Mutato Muzika studio on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood for some years. TONTO can be moved if you have a semi and a careful crew, and Malcolm has kept it with him whenever possible... it lived in a Manhattan studio in the 1990s for a while, and was there when I met Malcolm for the first time. Really nice guy.
Rest easy, from hip hop
I got to visit it at the Record Plant on 3rd st, it was set up in Studio C the room built to house a orchestra I met Stevie Wonder in the hallway one day, a big thank you to
Robert Margouloff for letting me hangout with him at the Plant. I have a slide of it somewhere in my archives.
I got this album!!! Original, LP...I remember WNEW-FM NYC Allison Steele, late into the night.....when FM mattered!
To the listener, maybe one can not tell the difference, but to the player, analogue synthesizers have an amazing smooth tonal change as you turn the knob that you can't match in even the finest of incremental steps that VST synthesizers have.
fabulous and unique
The curator.
CenyddRos It's not going to waste, it's now at the National Music Centre in Canada where it's not just an exhibition piece, but musicians can use it for new recordings!
wow ... that is in fact Tonto
This music is beyond amazing... if you have heard what J-Dilla did to this man... track 4 or 5 on the beat tape.. if you haven't heard that. Listen to that you will be blown away to see a person flip a song so much... I think the actually version is called
J Dilla Turn me up some instrumental.
Thank you for the Tonto tho much appreciated 🖖🏽
If Dr. Dre or Pharrell ever get in that room it is curtains. This is the "Willy Wonka's Choclate Factory" of funk.
Well, Stevie Wonder was there ... in the key of life
No, they sub-contracted the work out to uncredited peons, like they always did.
@@keithbarnhart6952 At least they gave me a good farewell lunch...
Nope! Malcolm Cecil was on a Whole notha Level.
the electronic shrine. RiP Cecil
Look at that synth!
tout ça pour ça...
can't wait for the vst
If I remember rightly, the music playing at the start is from the second TONTO album 'It's About Time', the Pyramid Suite from side two of the LP
Interesting little tour :-)
The first piece is "Tama" from Zero Time, but then the next piece is indeed from It's About Time.
this is amazing
- i vote we smuggle Kaidi Taitam in there and keep him captive until he works out how to use Tonto and produces an album
I got the app for this on my ipad!
@Gwyo You're right! It's Tama. thanks :-)
Hey Malcolm
Perfect exsample how technology can benifit mankind ! What ever happened to Malcolm ? is he still alive n kickin making music ?
Will this one day be put inside the Smithsonian ?
Bytheway..thanks to 'Keen'Mark for that rare piece of info.The poster of this video couldn't have said it any better.....
@Sleipnir1971 -- we could only speculate before now ;-)
whooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... i've seen god and he oscillates ...
PS wasn't it used in Phantom of the Paradise.
Just been listening to a feature on BBC radio 4 in the UK about TONTO.
I am a bit of a synth collecter but dont have any of the clasic analogues apart from the Roland shi101
could someone identify the first piece? its so haunting and beautiful...
Easy enough, it's "Tama" which is the final cut on Zero Time (1971) the debut from TONTO'S Expanding Head Band.
@@Miler97487 woah thank you! Finally!
So this is what the inner secret control room of the TARDIS looks like!!!
@srmqzq you are mistaken - it was at his studio for a while but he never owned it
T.O.N.T.O. is now owned by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, if I'm not mistaken.
He bought everything...
really!? Please do tell what the name of the app is? I've tried searching for it, but no luck. thanks so much
The Chemical Bros were here!!
Sonic Heaven
Did Pink Floyd have something like this?
there´s no bird inside, lol
Amazing machine. Too bad it is going to waste.
Tonto means fool in Spanish XD
Im not a hater, I highly respect what Cecil did WHEN he did it. Thats quite an ambitious effort, and he and I both share a love for sound creation. What I don't understand is that there was actual very little information about TONTO on the web. I have been to multiple sites and watched multiple videos but none of them really say anything. When it comes to Stevie W, I have never heard anything that exotic until Wonder got a Yamaha GX-1 (or GX20) on Songs in the Key of Life. Cecil references how TONTO helped create the clavinet parts on "Superstitious." I'd really like an explanation to that. Also, again not to be mean, buying other instruments and taking them out of their original chassis to put them within your own cabinetry isn't creating a new instrument. At one time, I had over 40 synths in my arsenal, all connected by MIDI under computer control, that can do far more interface functions than standard CV, and I never considered my set-up to be one new ("original) instrument. Lastly, why didn't he evolve the set-up? There are modern analog VCOs which are far more stable and have more functionality, as well as advanced controllers. A lot of CV duties have been replace by MIDI which is vastly more sturdy, and takes far less real-estate on the panel. My current 5MU modular has 59 full range VCOs, 8 sequencers, 22 EGs, 21 filters; as part of a system that has over 400 MU, and none of them are cross-platform modules. I am always changing my system.
Yes, but were you doing it in 1968 - 1971? Timeframe is important and I'm sure they did more than just put lots of synthesisers together. Moody blues said it took weeks and weeks to create the choir on I'm not in love...now it would take a couple of hours at most. Technology moves on and all these people who think this is easy assume how easy it is to do now!! It's like F1 drivers now compared to Jackie Stewart et al days...no comparison.
@@bananaman402 a) Many of the items in TONTO are not from that time frame you suggest (b) 10CC composed and created "I'm not In Love." (c) you obviously ignored my 1st sentence in the post. (d) Stevie recorded/layered 6 tracks of clavinet, I fail to see how the function of TONTO has anything to do with that.
amazing