[sdiy] Analog Computers, Rocket City (was: Static ADC etc)

[Scott Nordlund]

This seems to have been done at the Institute of Sonology at the University of Utrecht.

See pics: http://wfmu.org/Playlists/Bryce/s38926_simulaton.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2325/2510487757_599e9868d9_o.jpg

This was used in the 70s by composer Roland Kayn for his "Cybernetic music" LP sets (I think Simultan, Makro and Infra). I'm sure others used it too, but I don't know of other pieces that specifically cite doing that sort of thing.

The end result is actually very similar to mixer feedback, or other forms of chaotic analog stuff, analog neural networks or whatever.

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> From: 21pointy at tpg.com.au
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:37:32 +1000
> Subject: [sdiy] Analog Computers, Rocket City (was: Static ADC etc)
>
>
> On 18/01/2013, at 9:55 AM, Phillip Harbison wrote:
>
>> The analog computers fared no better. They lined the hallways
>> and eventually were used as trash cans by lazy students. I never
>> understood why they did not find room for a few of them at the
>> Space & Rocket Center museum. I guess computers are not nearly
>> as exciting to most people as the rockets they were used to
>> design. *sigh*
>
>
> These old analogue computers could be pressed into audio synthesis
> duties, couldn't they?
> Has anyone done it or were they all destroyed?
>
> Adam
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