Manhattan Research Inc.

[Grant Richter]

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Get yourself a Christmas present. Raymond Scott compilation.

2 CDs and 144 page book. Interviews with:
Bob Moog
Joel Chadabe
Herb Deutsch
Thomas Rhea

A tribute to 1950s and 60s sine and square wave synthesis in Wonder Bread
commercials. Includes the famous "Pygmy Taxi Corporation", if you like tube
synthesis, you will definitely enjoy these tonalities. Not a filter in
sight, relay and photocell sequencers, amazing stuff.

The "Circle Machine" was a photoresistor on a motorized arm that scanned a
circle of lamps. The individual intensity of each lamp could be adjusted,
making a sequencer. The photoresistor controlled a tube oscillator.

The "Electronium" seems similar to the Sal-mar construction (in concept) in
that it was synth modules controlled by random generators. He developed a
miniature synthesizer module that could be resistor programmed and built
banks of them to make multi-timbral "orchestras" under PSRG control.