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Electronic Music Synthesis

1959; Acoustical Society of America; Volume: 31; Issue: 11_Supplement Linguagem: Inglês

10.1121/1.1930232

1520-9024

Harry F. Olson, Herbert Belar, J. Timmens,

Engineering Technology and Methodologies

The modern systems of communication have been applied to the electronic synthesis of music in the form of the electronic music synthesizer. The electronic music synthesizer is a machine which provides means for producing a tone with any frequency, intensity, growth, duration, decay, portamento, timbre, vibrato, and deviations. If these properties of a tone are specified, the tone can be produced by the synthesizer from a coded record. For implementing the electronic synthesis of music an improved and enlarged electronic music synthesizer Mark II has been developed and built. The new electronic music synthesizer and the use of the new synthesizer by professional musicians will be described.