Recorder, special purpose
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- OBJECT TYPE
- MULTIPLE TAPE
- DATE
- 1955
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1991.0219.001
- MANUFACTURER
- NRC, Elmus Lab
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- PROTOTYPE
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 4
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- METAL CASING & PARTS/ SYNTHETIC CONTROLS, KEYS & PARTS/ WOOD HANDLE & PARTS/ RUBBER WHEELS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 139.0 cm
- Width
- 86.0 cm
- Height
- 158.3 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Communications
- Category
- Music
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- NRC
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Ottawa
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1955+
- Canada
-
The first or prototype of five special purpose tape recorders designed by pioneering Canadian electronic music composer & instrument designer Hugh Le Caine of NRC, used by him for his landmark composition 'Dripsody'. After 1959 it was the central instrument at UTEMS, the first such studio in Canada. - Function
-
An electronic music instrument for studio work, designed to assist composers in altering & recombining pre-recorded sounds. it processed sound material in the form of sound records on tape by dividing the material into parts, altering the parts, & recombining the altered parts into a single stereo output. - Technical
-
This was the first 'studio' instrument built by Le Caine; its sole purpose was to facilitate the musique concrete technique of changing the playback speed of recorded sound. It used a keyboard like the synthesizers of the 1980's but it could work with many sounds simultaneously & mix them into a single stereo output. - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- INCISED LETTERING ON UPPER DEXTER PANEL FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS/ BLACK IMPRESSION PRINTED LABELS FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS
- Missing
- ONE FRONT PANEL; OTHER PARTS From CA of 03/01/1995 by Tony Missio: Undetermined
- Finish
- METALLIC & BRUSHED METAL/ BLACK CONTROLS/ WHITE & BLACK KEYS/ MULTICOLOURED WIRING
- Decoration
- N/A
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NRC, Elmus Lab, Recorder, special purpose, 1955, Artifact no. 1991.0219, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1991.0219.001/
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