Harald Bode's 100th Birthday

via John Levin:
"October 19th will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Harald Bode.

Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio) is presenting a radio broadcast on Saturday the 17th at 11:00 am GMT/UTC (7:00 am EDT) about his life and work:

http://www.br-online.de/bayern2/radiofeature/harald-bode-melochord-musik-ID1255513211989.xml

Through a friend of a friend, I was sent an English translation about the broadcast:

'Ein Leben für den Klang - Der Erfinder Harald Bode und die Elektronische Musik" ("Living For Sound - The Inventor Harald Bode and the Evolution of Electronic Music") is a radio documentary by Caspar Abocab, which is based on an intense journey through the times and life of a man, who contributed musical devices to the world of electronic sound, as we know it today longer than hardly anybody else. A montage of passages from notebooks, letters, publications and European radio programs from the early fifties documents the struggles and debates about music through electronic means. Also documented are personal struggles including not wanting to be a starving martyr, who couldn´t support his family properly, which finally led to Harald Bode’s immigration to the United States. Besides daytime jobs as a developing engineer, which lead to the introduction of new technologies into electronic instruments, he found the time and energy to develop new instruments, as well as for his own compositions. Even as a retired engineer, he built instruments that were widely used. He was proud and happy to have become a well renowned player in this field again, happy to hear his instruments in popular tunes as well as in avant-garde music. He also continued with his own compositions and also with lectures on the history of electronic music.'

Looks like you can stream the show off Bavarian Radio's web site while it's broadcast. It's an early Saturday rise for those of us on the east coast :) but I think I'll get up to try to catch it.

Cheers, and happy Bode-day!
John"