Renseignements généraux

Nº de série

PROTOTYPE

Nº de partie

1

Nombre total de parties

4

Ou

S/O

Brevets

S/O

Description générale

METAL CASING & PARTS/ SYNTHETIC CONTROLS, KEYS & PARTS/ WOOD HANDLE & PARTS/ RUBBER WHEELS

Dimensions

Remarque : Cette information reflète la taille générale pour l’entreposage et ne représente pas nécessairement les véritables dimensions de l’objet.

Longueur

139,0 cm

Largeur

86,0 cm

Hauteur

158,3 cm

Épaisseur

S/O

Poids

S/O

Diamètre

S/O

Volume

S/O

Lexique

Groupe

Communications

Catégorie

Musique

Sous-catégorie

S/O

Fabricant

Ou

NRC

Pays

Canada

État/province

Ontario

Ville

Ottawa

Contexte

Pays

Canada

État/province

Ontario

Période

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.

Fonction

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.

Technique

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.

Notes sur la région

Inconnu

Détails

Marques

INCISED LETTERING ON UPPER DEXTER PANEL FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS/ BLACK IMPRESSION PRINTED LABELS FOR CONTROL FUNCTIONS

Manque

ONE FRONT PANEL; OTHER PARTS From CA of 03/01/1995 by Tony Missio: Undetermined

Fini

METALLIC & BRUSHED METAL/ BLACK CONTROLS/ WHITE & BLACK KEYS/ MULTICOLOURED WIRING

Décoration

S/O