soundhack spectral shapers giveaway
Moderator: TapeOpCraig
-
- takin' a dinner break
- Posts: 160
- Joined: Sat May 10, 2003 6:02 pm
- Location: bird rock, ca
- Contact:
soundhack spectral shapers giveaway
Hi all,
I gave Craig a couple of my software bundles to give away, but somehow they got misplaced and didn't make it to the giveaway cart. So I'm going to ask a couple questions. The first person to answer either of the following questions will win a download copy of my bundle (that's two winners, one for each question)
Oh - and Larry sez you have to send me a scan of your badge as well - hope you haven't thrown them out yet!
And post your replies in this topic.
If you want to check out the bundle, go to this page:
http://www.soundhack.com/shapers.php
Now the questions -
1) What is this device and who is the man standing next to it?
2) The Buchla Touche keyboard had a built in composition language, what was it called, and what did its acronym stand for?
Thanks!!! Tom
I gave Craig a couple of my software bundles to give away, but somehow they got misplaced and didn't make it to the giveaway cart. So I'm going to ask a couple questions. The first person to answer either of the following questions will win a download copy of my bundle (that's two winners, one for each question)
Oh - and Larry sez you have to send me a scan of your badge as well - hope you haven't thrown them out yet!
And post your replies in this topic.
If you want to check out the bundle, go to this page:
http://www.soundhack.com/shapers.php
Now the questions -
1) What is this device and who is the man standing next to it?
2) The Buchla Touche keyboard had a built in composition language, what was it called, and what did its acronym stand for?
Thanks!!! Tom
- Seamonster
- takin' a dinner break
- Posts: 194
- Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:19 am
- Location: old Malibu
- Contact:
Re: soundhack spectral shapers giveaway
Sending answer to #2 in a PM, as I am badgeless! (Are we not all Sneetches on the beaches?)
Hoagie Hill
seamonstersounds [dot] com
Hoagie Hill
seamonstersounds [dot] com
Theremin
Hi Tom, great seeing you at TapeOp Con. I feel like I'm cheating: Rhythmicon!
- Seamonster
- takin' a dinner break
- Posts: 194
- Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:19 am
- Location: old Malibu
- Contact:
Hmm, I thought my PM was 1st for question #2, but I guess I got too chatty with it.
So here's my best guess for #1. Copied from a cool website on proto synths:
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years
The Variophone (1932)
"Developed in the Soviet Union in 1932 by Yevgeny Alexandrovitch Sholpo, the Variophone used an optical synthesis method where sound waves are drawn onto transparent 35mm film generating sounds controlled by photo-electric cells."
BTW, the photo is definitely not Henry Cowell.
Cheers,
Hoagie Hill
So here's my best guess for #1. Copied from a cool website on proto synths:
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years
The Variophone (1932)
"Developed in the Soviet Union in 1932 by Yevgeny Alexandrovitch Sholpo, the Variophone used an optical synthesis method where sound waves are drawn onto transparent 35mm film generating sounds controlled by photo-electric cells."
BTW, the photo is definitely not Henry Cowell.
Cheers,
Hoagie Hill
-
- takin' a dinner break
- Posts: 160
- Joined: Sat May 10, 2003 6:02 pm
- Location: bird rock, ca
- Contact:
Re: Theremin
Thanks James - It is a Rhythmicon - one of Lev Terman's many creations, this one specifically for Henry Cowell. More info here:jamesfei wrote:Hi Tom, great seeing you at TapeOp Con. I feel like I'm cheating: Rhythmicon!
http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/rhythmicon/
or here:
http://theremin.ru/archive/rhythmicon0.htm
Is that your Rhythmicon in the pic? Does is work? Samples?
Send me your email address and I'll get you hooked up with the plugins.
- Seamonster
- takin' a dinner break
- Posts: 194
- Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2004 12:19 am
- Location: old Malibu
- Contact:
Will the real Henry Cowell please stand up? Three photos of him on this page:
http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco6/Mode/cowell.html
But then again, here's that same pic of the Rhythmicon (on the site I noted above -- doh!), indicating that it is Cowell.
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machi ... index.html
Is this really the same guy, or just another case of internet-propagated hooey? I'm so confused. -- Hoagie
http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco6/Mode/cowell.html
But then again, here's that same pic of the Rhythmicon (on the site I noted above -- doh!), indicating that it is Cowell.
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machi ... index.html
Is this really the same guy, or just another case of internet-propagated hooey? I'm so confused. -- Hoagie
-
- takin' a dinner break
- Posts: 160
- Joined: Sat May 10, 2003 6:02 pm
- Location: bird rock, ca
- Contact:
The third picture on the swedish site is the writer's pic, the first two are Cowell.hoagie wrote:Will the real Henry Cowell please stand up? Three photos of him on this page:
http://home.swipnet.se/sonoloco6/Mode/cowell.html
But then again, here's that same pic of the Rhythmicon (on the site I noted above -- doh!), indicating that it is Cowell.
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machi ... index.html
Is this really the same guy, or just another case of internet-propagated hooey? I'm so confused. -- Hoagie
I'll double-check with one of our musicologists here (UCSD), but I have seen that Rhythmicon picture several places with Cowell identified in the caption.
Re: Theremin
Hi Tom. That's Terman's Rhythmicon. I got to work with it during a residency at the Terman Center (Moscow Conservatory), about two years ago. As far as I know, it's the only working model (at least of the one's Terman built) that survived. It only uses one photocell--each key triggers a light directed through a prism, which is reflected by a 15-mirror assembly towards a single point. The rhythms and pitch are created by gating the light beam with two discs punched with 15 concentric patterns of integer ratios, one rotating at a high speed (pitch), one slow (rhythm). The mechanical nature of the device ensures preciese harmonic and rhtymic ratios. Here's the mirror assembly:
The lever on the side changes the "tempo" by slowing down one disc with a felt damper (the pitch remains constant). There are some more pictures of the Rhythmicon and other (now destroyed) Termen inventions on my website, as well as a mp3.
Actually, that picture is probably Schillinger rather than Cowell.
James
The lever on the side changes the "tempo" by slowing down one disc with a felt damper (the pitch remains constant). There are some more pictures of the Rhythmicon and other (now destroyed) Termen inventions on my website, as well as a mp3.
Actually, that picture is probably Schillinger rather than Cowell.
James
soundhack wrote: Thanks James - It is a Rhythmicon - one of Lev Terman's many creations, this one specifically for Henry Cowell. More info here:
http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/rhythmicon/
or here:
http://theremin.ru/archive/rhythmicon0.htm
Is that your Rhythmicon in the pic? Does is work? Samples?
Send me your email address and I'll get you hooked up with the plugins.
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest