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Synapse Magazine: archiving the history of electronic music

April 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

From Things Magazine:  "The complete archive of Synapse Magazine , a 1970s publication about the nascent electronic music scene". Download and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Technology Tagged With: electronic arts, illustrations, magazines, past futures, synthesizers, Technology, visions

Bernhard Leitner’s Le Cylindre Sonore, 1987

January 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, form of form, past futures, Sounds, synthesizers, Technology, world weird web

Some Kraftwerk for Christmas

December 24, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, Sounds, synthesizers, Technology

Cybernetic Serendipity (1968) – The Computer and the Arts

December 8, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, past futures, synthesizers, Technology, visions, world weird web

Wheatstone Wave Machine, c. 1875, Physics Dept., Union College, NY. maker: Rudolph Koenig

October 31, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In the late 1840s Charles Wheatstone developed a moving mechanical model for demonstrating wave properties of light and sound. It displayed both … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Sounds, synthesizers, Technology, world weird web

Vintage synths catalogues and brochures

August 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

When the music stopped being a matter of virtuosism and started being a ground for scientific research. Roland, Synclavier, Arp, DA … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: electronic arts, past futures, Sounds, synthesizers, Technology, world weird web

More on the Harmonic Synthesizer, and on the Harmonic Analyser

August 16, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Harmonic Synth Lord Kelvin's harmonic synthesizer is basically Henrici's harmonic analyzer (see later) in reverse. Originally designed as a tide … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Sounds, synthesizers, Technology, world weird web

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