YouTube Uploaded by klubmoozak on Sep 29, 2011
"pia palme - electric indigo - elisabeth schimana und der max brand synthesizer - dasos (in order of appearance),
*video by uli kühn
4 years moozak, 5 years e-may @ fluc wanne wien
this is not a documentation video, this is to help
meorize...
instruments on stage: kempelen sprechmaschine, korg ms-10, max brand synthesizer (proto moog), 6 macintosh SE..."
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Wikipedia on the sprechmaschine:
"Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine is a manually-operated speech synthesizer that began development in 1769, by Austro-Hungarian author and inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen. It was in this same year that he completed his far more infamous contribution to history: The Turk, a chess-playing automaton, later revealed to be a very far-reaching and elaborate hoax due to the chess-playing human-being occupying its innards.[4] But while the Turk’s construction was completed in six months, Kempelen’s Speaking Machine occupied the next twenty years of his life.[2] After two conceptual “dead ends” over the first five years of research, Kempelen’s third direction ultimately led him to the design he felt comfortable deeming “final”: a functional representational model of the human vocal tract.[3]..." See Wikipedia for more.
image via this post where you'll find more pics and a video of the synth itself.
