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Polish chemist Jan Czochralski, joysticks and patch points spawned this drum machine
Start with a chemical process that grows crystals and silicon for semiconductors, build a multi-layered 6-7 voice drum machine around it, cover it with patch points and clusters of knobs and joysticks, and you get the Czochralski cells. It’s a complex drum machine rather unlike anything before it.
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1977’s Bell Labs Alles synth demo came pre-Crumar, features Laurie Spiegel cameo
In 1977, the marriage of motion pictures and telephones somehow birthed Hal Alles’ Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer – an experimental additive synth that imagined new directions for both music and vocal communication. This 1977 demo has the creator show off that vision, and Laurie Spiegel is on-hand to explore the device compositionally.
Peter Kirn - February 21, 2023
Gear Music tech Tech
Erica’s modular Dada Noise System II dives into joys of joysticks, history of Dada
With a panner that can be flown with a joystick – even for surround sound – and loads of other inventions, Erica Synths and Liquid Sky’s Ingmar Koch are boldly going deeper in Dada.
Peter Kirn - February 4, 2021
Modular-Analog Music tech Tech
Art From Trash, as ReFunct Media Makes a Symphony from Obsolete Gear [Videos]
Peter Kirn - May 10, 2012
Music Music tech
Luz: Live Motion Graphics, Controlled by Anything, Free on Linux and Now with DMX
Peter Kirn - March 24, 2011
Archive Motion Music tech
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