synthesizer - electronic sound
mammoth ivory flute (350 BCE) - duck whistle to attract animals to hunt them (synthesizing the call of the animal to kill)
Pipe Organ (3rd C BCE)
Taus (4th CE)
Modern organ - opening up a switch for airflow, different volumes based on macro level switches, named after different effects (stops) - “pull out all the stops” - unleashing every pipe in the room
Electricity - 1897 Thaddeus Cahil Telharmonium - pump and dump stock investment - fled to Europe - radio was invented
Leon Theremin (1928)
Maurice Martenot
Hugh Le Caine Electronic Sackbut (1945) - squeeze your knees for voltage to come through
CMC Columbia
Belar and Olsen RCA Mark II (1957)
Robert Moog / Don Buchla - inventors of synthesizer (ripping off a third person you don’t know about - Harald Bode Sound System Synthesizer - 1961)
ARP 2600 (1971)
The People’s Synthesizer (1973) kits from Serge Techerepnin
Roland System 700
The Modular Deser (1985-1995)
The Digital Divide - DSPs
Eurorack Analog Modular System (1995)