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man & machine

БІРОЛ’s blog on Instagram  is a tribute to vintage synth pioneers & analog gear. Caution: exposure to reverberation and modulation might produce psychoactive effects.

Блог БІРОЛ в Instagram – це данина поваги піонерам вінтажних синтезаторів та аналогового обладнання. Увага: вплив реверберації та модуляції може спричинити психоактивні ефекти.

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Man & Machine - Vintage synth & analog gear
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Silver Apples, 1968 Silver Apples, 1968
Suzanne Ciani, early 80s Suzanne Ciani, early 80s
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Suzanne Ciani is an electronic music pioneer and p Suzanne Ciani is an electronic music pioneer and pianist, among many other things. Interested in both classical music and technology, in the late sixties she fell in love with the Buchla, one of the first modular synthesizers.
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Manuel Göttsching Manuel Göttsching
Conrad Schnitzler Conrad Schnitzler
Director John Carpenter & Alan Howarth producing t Director John Carpenter & Alan Howarth producing the music for Halloween III: Season of the Witch - 1982....
Tangerine Dream (Froese, Franke, Baumann), Ancienn Tangerine Dream (Froese, Franke, Baumann), Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, 1976 - Photo © Philippe Carly
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cologne, 1964 - Photo by Ar Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cologne, 1964 - Photo by Arnold Newman
Lee Perry’s Black Ark studio Lee Perry’s Black Ark studio
Record listening booths, HMV store in London (1954 Record listening booths, HMV store in London (1954)
Daphne Oram draws timbres on the Oramics machine, Daphne Oram draws timbres on the Oramics machine, ca 1949

By the mid-1940s, Oram started conducting sonic experiments after hours, composing a 1949 piece called Still Point for double orchestra, live electronics, and turntables. A bit too ahead of its time, it was rejected by the BBC, though Oram was promoted to studio manager. In 1957 she created the first commissioned piece of electronic music in BBC history shortly before co-founding the influential BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Recognising the potential for technology to create and express an entirely new musical language, she left the BBC in 1959 to establish her own studio where she invented “Oramics,” a system to transform drawings into sounds via the transfer of etchings on to 35mm film stock.

(Photo Credit: Fred Wood/Daphne Oram)
1924 Tape Recorder 1924 Tape Recorder
Keith Emerson, 1973 Keith Emerson, 1973
WLW Model Super-Power Radio Receiver, Crosley Radi WLW Model Super-Power Radio Receiver, Crosley Radio Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky, 1936

The Colossus of Radio features included multiple tuning, volume, fidelity, and tone controls, as well as a public address system.: https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/the-colossus-of-radio
ALFRED HITCHCOCK BLOGATHON: DIAL M FOR MURDER (195 ALFRED HITCHCOCK BLOGATHON: DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954)
ELIANE RADIGUE - French composer Eliane Radigue (b ELIANE RADIGUE - French composer Eliane Radigue (born January 24, 1932) first discovered electronic music on a radio show in the 50s. Shortly thereafter, thanks to a chance encounter she began an apprenticeship with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry, founders of musique concrète. When she started to make her own work, she developed a particular interest in tape feedback technique. Using feedback, tape loops, and beginning in the 70s, the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer, Radigue’s haunting long duration compositions are expressions of her deep reflections on sound and listening.

Radigue currently lives in France.
Richard Wright - Pink Floyd Richard Wright - Pink Floyd
Delia Derbyshire next to one of the Radiophonic Wo Delia Derbyshire next to one of the Radiophonic Workshop Philips EL-3503 machines - circa 1965
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