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1974 Station ID Bed

from My Tangled Roots by Joe Paradiso

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I made this and all of the next tracks before I even started building my synthesizer. In the winter break of 1973/74, I brought my modified Gibson/Kalamazoo organ and some modified effects into the Tufts/WMFO production studio for a week or two so I could experiment with it in creating new music. This was a short piece that I used to make a Station ID - it features the organ, an oscillating bandpass filter 'Leslie Effect simulator' that I built from a 1969 article in Popular Electronics (which later became a module in my synth rig), and an Xcelite Allen Wrench that you could play a pitch with when hitting it on a table corner, and lots of varispeed recording. I had little command of keyboard back then, and it shows, but the weirdness has a charm.

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from My Tangled Roots, released July 15, 1976

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Joe Paradiso Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joe Paradiso has been designing, building, and using his own music synthesizers and systems since 1975. Joe is a professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he has designed many kinds of electronic musical instruments and controllers that have been used in performance worldwide. He has composed synth patches for live soundscape performances at several public venues, including Ars Electronica 2004. ... more

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