[sdiy] ot: search for pioneers of electronic music

[Karl Dalen]

Keyboard magazine had a series of rewievs of old electronic
music innventors, Hugh le Chaine was covered in some these
pages.

I think they also mentioned Hugh as the inventor of voltage
control, but im not shure.Anyway a interesting rewiev of the
things he have done!

KD

--- Keith Daniel <ensign7 at e-scape.net> skrev: > >I'm interested to hear
about electrnoic music pioneers...
> 
> >Local historiography of course assumes the local heros to be the first.
> 
> At the end of WWII, the National Research Council of Canada sent some
> off to research aerodynamics, jet engines, analog computers...
> 
> One of the analog computer geniuses, Hugh Lecaine, was given grants to
> design and build electronic music instruments. Perhaps Canada was tired
> of war, and had this weird idea that art and culture were more
> imprortant. Or maybe he just didn't fit into the new cold war ideals.
> 
> Dr. Lecaine had his own ideas to work on, like tube oscillator banks to
> do formant synthesis. Or his precursor to the Mellotron.
> 
> It has been suggested that Dr. LeCaine was the first to use voltage
> control for music.
> 
> I used to work with his machines, and the neatest was the Poly.
> Individual oscillators for each key, and a 'tear drop' optical amplitude
> dynamic arrangement. Built in 1962.
> 
> His machines are now in storage at the Museum of Science and Technology
> in Ottawa.
> 
> I started electronic music in 1973, the year Dr. LeCaine passed away.
> Never got to meet him.
> 
> But he's the Great Canadian Pioneer of Electronic Music.
 
> Keith Daniel
  

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