[sdiy] pioneering electronics, Siemens

[Rude 66]

hey aaron,

 this is the studio i saw. i wonder if it still works..
last night i tried the siemens site, but the 'museum' part wouldn't work,
i'll try again.. i'm really curious how all this machinery sounds..

ruud



----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Day" <aaron at receive-transmit.com>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] pioneering electronics, Siemens


> Greetings,
>
> I don't know if this has been mentioned but Siemens really went to town
> in the late 50's early 60's. Sometime in the late 50's Carl Orff was
> commissioned to produce scores for a series of Siemens industrial
> films. He accepted but on the condition that it be done w/ electronics.
> So, Siemens built a studio. It now sits in the Deutschen Museum in
> München.
>
> Anyway, I have a CD from the Siemens-Studio für elektronish Musik that
> was published by the Siemens Kultur Programm that is quite good.
>
> It features compositions by Cage, Pual Pörtner, Josef Riedel and others
> all produced at the Siemens studio. Real beep boop click twinngg stuff.
>
> The copy I have came to me via the Siemens library for another project
> but I think you can poke around their site and get the address of the
> Kultur Programm. The liner notes are great as they give good
> descriptions of all the eqpt (aber auf Deutsche..).
>
> ad
>
>
>