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Musician vs Synthesist - What's the difference?

musician | synthesist |

As nouns the difference between musician and synthesist

is that musician is a composer, conductor, or performer of music while synthesist is one who synthesizes.

musician

English

Alternative forms

* musitian (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A composer, conductor, or performer of music.

    • Hyponyms

    * See also

    synthesist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who synthesizes.
  • * 2006 , Peter Lavezzoli, The dawn of Indian music in the West: Bhairavi (page 163)
    • By taking widely disparate streams that haven't been formally in contact with each other, you become a synthesist and create new forms.
  • A musician who plays a synthesizer.
  • * 2006 , Evan Selinger, Postphenomenology: a critical companion to Ihde (page 61)
    • None of these had the artistry of Carlos and often used the Moog to play a solo line from a standard pop tune. None were hits. The use of the synthesizer for emulation was, as I have said, rejected by many early synthesists .