Larry Fast

Lawrence Roger 'Larry' Fast (born 10 December 1951) is a synthesizer expert and composer. He is best known for Synergy, his 1975–1987 series of synthesizer music albums, and for his contributions to a number of popular music acts, including Peter Gabriel, Foreigner, and Hall and Oates.

Biography

Fast grew up in Livingston, New Jersey and attended Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, where he obtained a degree in History. There he took his previous training in piano and violin and melded them with computer science to become interested in synthesized music and to build his own primitive sound-making electronic devices.

He was introduced to Rick Wakeman, the keyboard player from the band Yes during a local radio interview, and traveled to the UK to work with Yes on their 1974 album Tales from Topographic Oceans. It was there that he got a recording contract with Passport Records.

The Synergy project

Fast recorded a series of pioneering synthesizer music albums under the project name Synergy. Some of this work was used as the basis for music in Commodore 64 and Amiga computer games, notably Rob Hubbard's score for the C64 version of Zoids, which was an unofficial cover of Synergy's Ancestors from the 1981 album Audion.

CORDS

The acronym CORDS may refer to:

Cords may also refer to:

See also

Corduroy, a ridged velvet fabric

Wire (disambiguation)

A wire is a strand of drawn metal used especially in electrical conductors and fencing.

Wire or Wires may also refer to:

Abbreviations

These terms are often shortened to simply wire or wired

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People

Wires (song)

"Wires" is a song by the British rock band Athlete from their second studio album, Tourist. It was released 17 January 2005 as the lead single from that album, peaking at #4 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2005 in British music). The song was written by lead singer Joel Pott, about his daughter who was born prematurely.

Usage in other media

"Wires" was one of the first tracks available in iTunes Plus, after EMI and iTunes launched the new format on 31 May 2007.

"Wires" was featured on the sixth episode of the second season of The Vampire Diaries.

The song also appears on the 2006 compilation album, The Acoustic Album (Virgin).

"Wires" was sung by Victor Frankenstein in Frankenstein's Wedding in 2011, when Victor destroys the creature's "companion." Charli XCX also covered the song, making it available through her official YouTube channel.

"Wires" was performed by Rylan Clark on The X Factor in 2012. The week after Rylan's live performance, the original song by Athlete re-entered the UK chart at #40.