Will Etling
Designer
- September 10, 2008 • 7:00 pm PDT
- + responses
I stumbled upon this while looking for a picture of the robotic guitar/banjo/tambourine playing machine that Ametron Electronics of Hollywood has in their front lobby.
"Grainger
had experimented using collections of Theremins and changing speeds
of recorded sounds on phonograph disks and eventually developed
his own instruments. Graingers experiments with random music composition
predated those of John Cage by 30 years with "Random Round" written
in the 1920's."
Full article here.
Pretty amazing that people were pursuing 'electronic' music that long ago. I wonder what drove him to pursue scale-free pitch bending, when plenty of contemporary instruments -- trombones, for example -- could achieve the effect organically. I think he would've liked an ebow.
"Grainger
had experimented using collections of Theremins and changing speeds
of recorded sounds on phonograph disks and eventually developed
his own instruments. Graingers experiments with random music composition
predated those of John Cage by 30 years with "Random Round" written
in the 1920's."
Full article here.
Pretty amazing that people were pursuing 'electronic' music that long ago. I wonder what drove him to pursue scale-free pitch bending, when plenty of contemporary instruments -- trombones, for example -- could achieve the effect organically. I think he would've liked an ebow.
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