Teaser: The World's First Programmable Synthesizer and its Pulitzer Prize-Winning Music
12"This synthesizer is the world's first programmable music synthesizer. The first piece of electronic music to win the Pulitzer Prize was made on it. Basically a two voice synthesizer with tone generation and composing in the left hand side and processing on the right hand side, including manual binary for the ordering of the effects processes. Which, for its time, essentially like a Turing computer, was one and a half tons, seven feet tall, 14 feet wide — it's quite a behemoth, but now it's a very large paperweight."
—Seth Cluett, Director, Computer Music Center and Lecturer in Computer Music & Sound Studies at Columbia University
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