I’ve always felt that there are two mildly conflicting aesthetics going on here:

The first is one that tries to evoke a fictional, romanticised Victorian setting, using technology and style that we imagine would have broadly been used in this time and perhaps extrapolating them fairly rigidly into the future (fantastic steampowered machines, functional babbage technology etc)

The second is one that looks at actual historical victorian technology, as in your quote “the first synthesizer was invented by Thaddeus Cahill in 1897, so the synth definitely qualifies as a steampunk instrument”. Certainly it’s often quite surprising and interesting how advanced (or not) various aspects of Victorian culture/technology were, but for me this isn’t where the power and beauty of the genre is best expressed as it’s so counter to our natural intuition about the period.

Of course I am not saying either is wrong; it’s just a personal preference which I’ve chosen to express in this project.

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We use synthesis in our music a little bit: the first synthesizer was invented by Thaddeus Cahill in 1897, so the synth definitely qualifies as a steampunk instrument.

Steampunks who use synths are not breaking the rule book; just reading it!

Here is one use of synths in steampunk music:

Cubinoid
http://tinyurl. com/mothbanduk

I liked th interview and I hope you share your new musics with everybody around the globe \,,/

Steampunk kisses xD
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