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Update via the comments:
"As I took this pic, I just wanted to let you know that it's in the basement at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. It's part of the Stearns Collection.
"Moog Synthesizer, Stearns 2035. This particular instrument has the distinction of being the first commercially produced Moog synthesizer.
It was commissioned by the Alwin Nikolai Dance Theater of New York in 1964 after being demonstrated at the Audio Engineering Society convention in New York in October of that year. Nikolai used the synthesizer to compose recorded musical accompaniments for his dancers.
Later, the instrument was acquired by the Collection. In 1989, Robert Moog gave a demonstration lecture using this synthesizer—a lecture jointly sponsored by the Stearns Collection and the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan."
This moog even has it's own webpage in the collection."
You don't really see many of these types of systems yet.
ReplyDeleteI really like quantum modulars like this, where each patch cord communicates to a circuit far in the future or past via quantum teleportation.
Each cable is essentially plugged into one of many multiple universes.
Without those pedal controls, you wouldn't have firm footing on any reality, and all your music would sound like cosmic microwave background radiation (the ultimate ambient music).
Rare also is good comedy.
ReplyDeleteMore like art than comedy really.
ReplyDeleteAs I took this pic, I just wanted to let you know that it's in the basement at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor. It's part of the Stearns Collection.
ReplyDelete"Moog Synthesizer, Stearns 2035. This particular instrument has the distinction of being the first commercially produced Moog synthesizer.
It was commissioned by the Alwin Nikolai Dance Theater of New York in 1964 after being demonstrated at the Audio Engineering Society convention in New York in October of that year. Nikolai used the synthesizer to compose recorded musical accompaniments for his dancers.
Later, the instrument was acquired by the Collection. In 1989, Robert Moog gave a demonstration lecture using this synthesizer—a lecture jointly sponsored by the Stearns Collection and the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan."
This moog even has it's own webpage in the collection.
Thanks. I updated the post with this.
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