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...recently, Whitman has been acting as a de-facto artist in residence. Since getting keycard access last summer, he has been using Harvard’s studio for electro-acoustic composition to make “long form” pieces, using equipment like a Serge Modular system and Buchla Music Boxes that he would have never had access to otherwise...
...synthesizer is the latest chapter in the history of electronic music. A prototype was built by RCA in the '50s, but it was not until the mid-'60s that Robert Moog, a New Yorker, and Don Buchla, a Californian, independently designed the first practical models. They were ungainly machines, bristling with plugs and wires that looked more at home in a scientist's laboratory than on a stage. In 1968 Wendy Carlos (then Walter, before a sex change) used a Moog for the album Switched-On Bach, a fetching electronic counterfeit that alerted musicians to the instrument...
That may be an extreme view-as long as music is played, there will be a need for violinists, clarinetists and pianists-but the statement contains more than a little truth. Inventor Buchla, busy designing a new generation of machines in his Berkeley workshop, envisions an instrument without a keyboard at all. Moog, now in North Carolina, is "working with musicians who need instruments that don't exist." If they succeed, the future could hold an aesthetic in which unconventional sounds fall as lightly and harmoniously on the ear as the C major scale...
...room will start with about $20,000 worth of equipment, including a Buchla electronic console -- capable of producing a variety of tones and pitches -- which Kirchner used in his prize-winning Quartet No. 3. The fund drive will also create a endowment for adding new equipment to the studio...
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