From Things Magazine: "The complete archive of Synapse Magazine , a 1970s publication about the nascent electronic music scene". Download and … [Read more...]
Bernhard Leitner’s Le Cylindre Sonore, 1987
Despite living in Paris since 2007 and regularly enjoying a walk in the Park de la Villette, we honestly never happened to find a little sound … [Read more...]
Some Kraftwerk for Christmas
Cybernetic Serendipity (1968) – The Computer and the Arts
A breakthrough exhibition curated by Jasia Reichardt at the ICA London (from August 2nd to October 20th, 1968). "It was the first exhibition to … [Read more...]
Wheatstone Wave Machine, c. 1875, Physics Dept., Union College, NY. maker: Rudolph Koenig
In the late 1840s Charles Wheatstone developed a moving mechanical model for demonstrating wave properties of light and sound. It displayed both … [Read more...]
Vintage synths catalogues and brochures
When the music stopped being a matter of virtuosism and started being a ground for scientific research. Roland, Synclavier, Arp, DA … [Read more...]
More on the Harmonic Synthesizer, and on the Harmonic Analyser
Harmonic Synth Lord Kelvin's harmonic synthesizer is basically Henrici's harmonic analyzer (see later) in reverse. Originally designed as a tide … [Read more...]