[sdiy] From the perspective of the Arts

[Glen]

At 05:48 PM 5/29/03 , Grant Richter wrote:
>Interesting paper traces development of electronic music from the
>perspective of the Arts rather than engineering.

Thanks for posting this! 

I never knew of "the Electronic Sackbut" before. Now I can even say that I
have actually heard the Electronic Sackbut in operation.

In case you are wondering, download this URL directly to your hard drive,
and play the file in WinAmp, or whatever you play mpg audio files with. 
Note: This is an audio file, not video. Don't let the mpg extension fool
you (or your browser).

http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/MPEGs/sackbut.mpg

For a lot more information about this instrument and its creator, go here:

http://www.hughlecaine.com/en/sackbut.html

There are links to more sound files, and info about other instruments
created by the same inventor who created the Sackbut.

In case you are still wondering what I'm talking about, the Electronic
Sackbut was apparently the world's first voltage-controlled synth, created
in 1948. It had pressure-sensitive control of pitch, volume and timbre. If
you don't already know about this instrument, check it out. It's very
interesting.


Thanks again,
Glen Berry