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Milton Babbitt in a 1962 BBC program

1962: MILTON BABBITT and the Music Machine | Monitor | Retro Tech | BBC Archive

This is a very interesting view of electronic music in the early days. Milton Babbitt was a pioneer in electronic music. In this program he explains his early work on the RCA Synthesizer at Columbia University. He forshadows much of what we have today, including MIDI, in this case "the programing device". (...more...)

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Celebrating Buchla
by mosc

Don Buchla & the Electric Symphony Orchestra:
An Evening of Stories and Performances
with Howard Moscovitz

Museum of Music Technology (EMEAPP)
Harleysville, Pennsylvania
Friday, November 13
Don Buchla was the tecnical director of the infamous Electric Symphony Orchestra, ESO, in 1972. I was the technical staff. The ESO is said to have originated as a Frank Zappa joke. It was an attempt to electrify and amplify every instrument in a symphony orchestra. "If it's loud enough, the kid's will love it." It ended with its first, and last, performance, 54 years to the day before this event.

I'll tell what happened, the good, the bad, and the funny, and try to share some insight into Don as a human (...more...)

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by mosc

Welcome to our new electro-music.org

We recently made a major upgrade to the site, the changes I announced in September. Here is what is new.

A new domain: electro-music.org

The site is now electro-music.org. The old .com address keeps working and brings you here; it's not going away. So we now have two addresses that work. I hope this isn't too confusing. Your login, your posts and your bookmarks all still work.

This site has always belonged to our community, and I think a .org name is more appropriate than .com. We have never been, and never will be, commercial.

New players for the radio (...more...)

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