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I subscribe to the term "synth" on flickr. When I see something that meets the bar I put a post up. Every now and then an image or more like this comes up. Anyone know why this one might have the synth label? I can of course ask the person that put it up, but then there's no fun in that. That a Creamware synth there above the doors there in the balcony? A KORG PS-3200? Actually, it looks like a Mattson Mini Modular.
Seems like they are there for ATLAS which is an experiment at CERN. So "Synth" could be the name of a talk they are attending. Maybe RF frequency synthesis? Or maybe synthesis in the sense of bringing different ideas and people together.
ReplyDeleteI searched for "CERN synth" came across somebody who built a PDP-11 controlled analog synthesizer while working at CERN:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~joep/CAMAC-Synth/CamacSynth.html
In my professional field (silicon design), "synthesis" is the process where a high level description of a design is turned into the gates which make up the chip.
Biologists and chemists have their own use for the word.
The guy in the black jacket is playing a Montron behind his back and the woman next to him is smiling because she has a hard time keeping the secret of where those sounds are coming from.....
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