SalMar Construction

[Curtin, Steven D (Steven)]

I was privileged to study with Salvatore Martirano at UIUC in the mid-80s
and see him "drive" the SalMar in his home studio a couple of times.  It's
an amazing beast.  

Joel Chadabe and the EMF are trying to get it located to a permanent
installation area in the Albany, NY or the NYC area, I hope to help with its
re-construction at that time.  Sal died in 1995, but his work and the
Construction continue to inspire.  I got into programming FPGAs for
sequencing based on wondering this would be done today.  Unfortunately it's
out of my means to hook up 300 or so touch switches and LEDs.

Sergio Franco's thesis can be checked out from the UIUC library and has a
lot of information on the SalMar's circuitry and design concepts, such as
the oscillators that used a 555 with a exponential converter, and a
lookup-table RAM wavetable memory that can be dynamically loaded by the
sequence generators.

Steve C

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Steven Curtin  
Agere Systems (formerly
Lucent Technologies Microelectronics)
ph: (732)949-4404   fax: (732)949-6711
http://curtin.emf.org
sdcurtin at lucent.com
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> From: 	Paul Perry[SMTP:pfperry at melbpc.org.au]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, December 06, 2000 7:34 AM
> To: 	synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl
> Subject: 	SalMar Construction
> 
> Here's something on SalMar, hope it inspires ;)
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> http://cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu/~martiran/HTdocs/salmar.html
> 
> paul perry Melbourne Australia
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