{"podcast":{"title":"Pantheon - Podcasts for Music Lovers","slug":"pantheon-podcasts-for-music-lovers-769338","podcast_index_feed_id":769338,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/pantheonpodcasts","website_url":"http://www.pantheonpodcasts.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/7e2efd42-913d-11ed-97e3-c31be85f95c4/image/8557623d5ff46d1523a0bf877b76521c.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Pantheon Media","episode_count":3000,"summary":"Welcome to Where Fans Belong! Find the amazing shows from the Pantheon Network in our main feed here: Rock N Roll Archaeology, Growin' Up Rock, The Struts Life, The Metallica Report, History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Decibel Geek, My Rock Moment with Amanda Morck, Tunes & Tumblers, Mistress Carrie Podcast, The Hook Rocks!, Performance Anxiety, JBTV, Into the Banjoverse, Rock's Backpages, Goldmine, Pamela Des Barres' Pajama Party, Who Cares About the Rock Hall?, You're Not Listening, the C.L.I.M.B., The Career Musician, Cobras & Fire, Rock and/or Roll, The Band: A History, No Filler, Shout it Out Loudcast, My Weekly Mixtape, Side Jams, I'm in Love with That Song, The Ugly American Werewolf in London Rock Podcast, See Hear, Ditty TV, Strange Phenomena, The Devil's Music with Pleasant Gehman, Metal Mayhem Roc, Colorado Music Experience, Audio Judo, ImmaLetYouFinish, What Difference Does It Make?, Songfacts, Story Song Podcast, The Age Old Question, There Can Be Only One, VRP Rocks, The Punk Tree, Long May You Young, Music Buzzz, Play That Rock N Roll, Ugly Things, Rock is Lit, Throughline, Banned Biographies, Only Three Lads, Glass Houses - A Billy Joel Podcast, Something for…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T14:18:40.534953+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pantheon-podcasts-for-music-lovers-769338"},"episode":{"title":"What Difference Does It Make: Robert Margouleff Shapes Sounds","slug":"what-difference-does-it-make-robert-margouleff-shapes-sounds","published_at":"2026-05-29T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pantheon-podcasts-for-music-lovers-769338/what-difference-does-it-make-robert-margouleff-shapes-sounds","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pantheon-podcasts-for-music-lovers-769338","url":"https://www.wddimpodcast.com/post/robert-margouleff-shapes-sounds","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/PAN1081213217.mp3","summary":"In the late 1960s, pioneering electronic musician Robert Margouleff and his musical partner Malcolm Cecil built something unlike anything the world had heard: TONTO — The Original New Timbral Orchestra — a sprawling, one-of-a-kind synthesizer system that would go on to reshape the sound of popular music for decades to come. A Grammy winner for his work on Stevie Wonder's Innervisions, Robert joins us in studio on the What Difference Does It Make Podcast to share the stories behind one of the most creative partnerships in music history. He takes us inside the making of Stevie's most celebrated run of records — Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness' First Finale — and reveals how TONTO's revolutionary sonic palette helped define that era. He also produced Devo's commercial breakthrough Freedom of Choice, one of the defining 80s music albums that helped bring synth-driven pop to the mainstream, and collaborated with Billy Preston and The Isley Brothers, cementing his place as one of the most influential figures behind the boards of his generation. It's all captured in his memoir, Shaping Sounds: Stevie Wonder, Devo, The Synth Revolution And My Life Behind The Music — and today, he's here to bring it to life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"In the late 1960s, pioneering electronic musician Robert Margouleff and his musical partner Malcolm Cecil built something unlike anything the world had he…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3411,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/pantheon-podcasts-for-music-lovers-769338/episodes/what-difference-does-it-make-robert-margouleff-shapes-sounds/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/pantheon-podcasts-for-music-lovers-769338/what-difference-does-it-make-robert-margouleff-shapes-sounds.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}