John Chowning, godfather of digital pop: ‘My wife told me: I didn’t think I’d have to compete with a computer’
Both composer and programmer, Chowning invented the way modern synths work and changed the sound of music for ever. Aged 90, he explains why he’s still at it For 90 years, John Chowning has lived in constant motion. From his youth as a globetrotting music savant through a heyday of radical computing that revolutionised pop,…