Rossum Electro-Music

Marco Alpert has had a fascinating career in the music industry and lucky for the NAMM Oral History collection he shared many of his stories with us. Marco was an electronic music composer in Los Angeles when he happened to meet the two founders of E-mu. Marco was hired to promote the innovative synthesizers that Dave Rossum and Scott Wedge were creating for E-mu. Marco was later involved with other amazing products and companies working on several of the most influential musical products during the last 30 years.  

Dave Rossum is an engineer, inventor, and synthesizer pioneer whose innovations helped define modern electronic instrument design. After earning a degree in molecular biology from Caltech and beginning graduate studies at UC Santa Cruz, Dave discovered his true passion when introduced to a Moog Modular Synthesizer—an experience that led him, along with longtime friend Scott Wedge, to found E-mu Systems in 1970.