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"Extremly rare Triadex Muse and Triadex Ampifier module. Two rare pieces from '72. They are in perfect working and look conditions.
Without doubt, a nice piece for collectors and Music / Sound installation artists, search "Triadex Muse" on Youtube! The Triadex Muse is the first digital musical instrument and was produced in 1972. It was designed by Edward Fredkin and Marvin Minsky, the creator of the alien "MONOLITH" in 2001 SPACE ODYSSEY, friend & collaborator of Stanley Kubrick. Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics. In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. His conception of human intellectual structure and function is presented in The Society of Mind (1987), which is also the title of the course he teaches at MIT. The Triadex Muse it's an algorithmic music generator: it uses digital logic circuits to produce a sequence of notes based on the settings of various parameters. It has four small sliders that control Volume, Tempo, Pitch, and Fine Pitch. It is not known how many were made, but they are considered extremely rare. For years, the Muse was a featured exhibit at the Museum of Science, Boston. The signage explained the device's algorithmic (and deterministic) approach to the creation of its seemingly-random music. Far from being random, its preset "song" played continuously -- and was even given a name, "Museum Musings," by the staff. USA standard voltage of 110 volts Shipping and packing costs to Europe are of 38 euro about. Spedizione e imballaggio in Italia: 14 euro circa"
Sold For: EUR 916.00
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Winning bid: EUR 916.00
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