[sdiy] ot: search for pioneers of electronic music

[Steve Begin]

Where in the museum are they?  I've never seen them there before.  I'm so
ashamed!
-Steve


----- Original Message -----
From: "Oren Leavitt" <oleavitt at ix.netcom.com>
To: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] ot: search for pioneers of electronic music


> There is a good book about Hugh Le Caine and his work:
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> The Sackbut Blues - Hugh Le Caine Pioneer in Electronic Music
> by Gayle Young
> 1989, National Museum of Science and Technology
> ISBN 0-660-12006-2
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> Keith Daniel wrote:
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> >>I'm interested to hear about electrnoic music pioneers...
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> >>Local historiography of course assumes the local heros to be the first.
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> >At the end of WWII, the National Research Council of Canada sent some off
to research aerodynamics, jet engines, analog computers...
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> >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.
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> >Dr. Lecaine had his own ideas to work on, like tube oscillator banks to
do formant synthesis. Or his precursor to the Mellotron.
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> >It has been suggested that Dr. LeCaine was the first to use voltage
control for music.
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> >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.
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> >His machines are now in storage at the Museum of Science and Technology
in Ottawa.
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> >I started electronic music in 1973, the year Dr. LeCaine passed away.
Never got to meet him.
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> >But he's the Great Canadian Pioneer of Electronic Music.
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> >Keith Daniel
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> --
> Oren Leavitt
> oleavitt at ix.netcom.com
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