Meine Filterbubble quillt regelmäßig über vor Berichten von alten Synthesizern; bin eh nicht so der Fan von altem Elektro-Zeug, ich habe was elektronische Musik fast nie mit was anderem als mit Nullen und Einsen gearbeitet, und damit bin ich ziemlich glücklich.
Das hier ist dann aber doch so ulkig, dass ich mir’s nicht verkneifen kann, zu verbloggen: Das Rhythmikon von Leon Theremin, das verblüffend heutiger Handhabe ähnelt.
The Rhythmicon relied on photoelectric technology to get the job done. The keys were each connected to a light that turned on when you pressed them. The lights then shined through a sequence of holes punched into two discs that rotated via a motor. On the other side of the discs was a photoelectric sensor that, when activated by the patterns of light, sent the Rhythmicon’s unique signals to a tube amp and thus to a speaker and out to dazzled audiences….
Maybe the biggest setback was that it just didn’t sound that good. One reviewer, after seeing the Rhythmicon demonstrated with violin accompaniment at a 1932 concert in San Francisco, likened its lower tones to “a cross between a grunt and a snort” and higher notes to “an Indian war whoop.”
(via BoingBoing)