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‘UPIC system’ (Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu) Patrick Saint-Jean...
Iannis Xenakis and the UPIC system Developed by the computer engineer Patrick Saint-Jean directed by the composer Iannis Xenakis at CEMAMu (Centre d’Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales) in...
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Con Brio Advanced Digital Synthesizer 100 & 200. Tim Ryan, Alan Danziger, Don...
Con Brio ADS 200 1980 The Con Brio ADS 100 & 200 has become something of a legendary instrument due to it’s phenomenal price – USD$30,000 or about GBP£17,000 in 1980 – and it’s futuristic sci-fi...
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The Stylophone , Brian Jarvis, UK, 1967
The Dübreq Stylophone The Stylophone was a small novelty electronic instrument created in the UK by Brian Jarvis’s Dübreq Company (originally a film production and recording studio specialising in...
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The Synclavier I & II. Jon Appleton, Sydney Alonso & Cameron Jones. USA, 1977
Late version of the Synclavier II 9600TS system with an Apple Macintosh running a terminal emulator The Synclavier I was the first commercial digital FM synthesiser and music workstation launched by...
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The ‘Samson Box’ or ‘Systems Concepts Digital Synthesizer’ Peter Samson, USA...
Peter Samson standing next to the Systems Concepts Digital Synthesiser or ‘Samson Box’ The Samson box was a one-off special-purpose dedicated audio computer designed for use by student composers at...
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DMX-1000 Signal Processing Computer. Dean Wallraff, USA 1978
DMX-1000 Signal Processing Computer The DMX-1000 was one of the earliest Digital Synthesisers. Essentially it was a dedicated 16 bit audio processing computer designed as an OEM product to be...
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The Motorola Scalatron. Herman Pedtke & George Secor. USA, 1974
The Scalatron was an unusual microtonal electronic instrument developed in the early 1970s by Motorola as a new venture into the instrument market. Promoted as the ‘first instant-performance...
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Qasar I,II & M8.Tony Furse. Australia, 1972
Tony Furse and the QASAR M8 Since the 1960s, Australian electronics engineer Tony Furse had been trying to develop an electronic musical instrument that was capable of digitally synthesising complex...
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The ‘Archifooon’ or ‘Archiphone’. Anton De Beer & Herman van der Horst. The...
The Archiphone at the Huygens-Fokker Foundation. Amsterdam NL – The Archiphone was essentially a portable electronic version of the giant ‘Fokker Organ’ – a thirty one tone microtonal pipe organ...
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Bell Labs Hal Alles Synthesiser, Hall Alles, USA, 1976.
Hal Alles Synthesiser. (Image; Computer Music Journal Vol1 Number 4.) The ‘Bell Labs Digital Synthesiser’ or ‘Hal Alles Synthesiser’ was one of the first ‘real-time’ digital instrument – as opposed to...
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