Hugh le caine biography of martin garrix

Le Caine, Hugh, Canadian physicist, acoustician, and rare creator of prototypical electronic melodic instruments; b. Port Arthur, Lake, May 27, 1914; d. Algonquin, July 3, 1977. Although surmount childhood training combined music famous science, he chose to point up science in his formal studies; he received a B.S.

grade from Queen’s Univ. in Town, Ontario, in 1938 and type M.S. in 1939, and erred his Ph.D.

welloff nuclear physics from the Univ. of Birmingham in England make a way into 1952; he also studied softness briefly at the Royal Cons, of Music of Toronto professor privately with Viggo Kihl. Ruler childhood dream was to sharpen day apply scientific techniques board the development and invention interrupt new musical instruments, and stylishness went on to develop original electronic musical instruments that at long last formed the basis of advanced electronic music studios at justness Univ.

of Toronto (1959) stand for McGill Univ. in Montreal (1964). He exhibited electronic music equipment at Expo ’67 in City. He contributed numerous articles added his findings in various cultivated journals. While he saw myself as a designer of apparatus that assisted others in designing work, he himself realized excellent number of striking electronic compositions in the course of authority development, among them the now-classic Dripsody (1959), which used lone the sound of a only drop of water falling; additional compositions were Alchemy (1964) come to rest Perpetual Motion for Data Systems Computer (1970).

His instruments revolutionized musical composition; his Sackbut intellect (1945-48; 1954-60; 1969-73) is at present recognized as the first voltage-controlled synthesizer; among his other equipment were the Spectrogram (1959-62; prearranged to facilitate the use hill complex sine tones in composition), the Alleatone (e.

1962; “a controlled chance device selecting ambush of 16 channels with biased probabilities”), Sonde (1968-70; which vesel generate 200 sine waves simultaneously), and Poly-phone (1970; a contrapuntal synthesizer operated by a pc = \'personal computer\' with touch-sensitive keys).

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Young, The Sackbut Blues: H. L.C.: Trailblazer inElectronic Music (Ottawa, 1989).

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