Roland Kayn and the Development of Cybernetic Music

Yannis Xenakis' Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture
Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis…
Athanasius Kircher SJ - 'Musurgia Universalis', 1650
Just yesterday we quoted an Athanasius Kircher's excerpt from his Musurgia Universalis (Rome: 1650). This…
Bernhard Leitner's Soundcube, 1969
Many years before the Cylindre Sonore, (see previous post), in 1969, Leitner began his research…
Katzenklavier (Cat Organ)
Thanks (indirectly) to Matteo Pasquinelli, I discovered the Katzenclavier. A "Cat Organ" is a fictive…
Vintage synths catalogues and brochures
When the music stopped being a matter of virtuosism and started being a ground for…