RCA Electronic Synthesizer Sounds & Music 1955 first ever synth lp

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The Sounds and Music of the RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer label & cat. no.:RCA Victor LM-1922 Experimental pressed in:USA date:1955 format:LP Vinyl: vg+ (few light unfeelable scuffs)
Cover: vg (light staining and wear, 1.5" split on top seam, tear on spine)

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"Introducing the RCA Electronic Music Synthesizer - a system capable of creating any sound which has ever been produced, and any sound which can be imagined by the human mind..." This rare and amazing artifact is the first lp ever to feature a synthesizer; it is also generally regarded as the first record of electronic music (though there were some early musique concrete recordings which were released around the same time). This demonstration of the then-unbelievable capabilities of the RCA Synth has explanations of the technology and science behind the punchcard-fed, room-sized machine (spoken in a stereotypical 1950s nerdy announcer voice, interspersed with synthesized example sounds), as well as actual music produced by the synth. There are classical works by Bach and Brahms, folk songs ("in the style of a Hillbilly Band"), and pop and jazz (including Irving Berlin's Blue Skies "in the style of a dance band"). The RCA Synth would a few years later be installed at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where luminaries Vladimir Ussachevsky, Milton Babbitt, Otto Luening, and Charles Wuorinen all composed seminal experimental early electronic works using it. This lp was produced by Dr. Harry F. Olson, director of the RCA Acoustical Laboratory. It includes extensive illustrated notes on the cover, with essays and diagrams on subjects like "The Physical Properties of Musical Tones, " "Synthesis and the Musician," etc.

This lp should be heard by anyone interested in early electronic music and instruments like the Theremin, Oskar Sala and his trautonium, Robert Moog, Donald Buchla/Morton Subotnick, Clara Rockmore, ondes Martenot, Ondioline, ARP, Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack, Jean-Michelle Jarre, Paul Beaver, Bernie Krause, Pierre Henry, Max Mathews, Jean-Claude Risset, Bernard Parmegiani, Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, Tom Dissevelt, John R. Pierce, Newman Guttman, Piero Umiliani, and James Tenney.

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