The electronic music synthesizer is a machine that produces music from a coded record. The coded record, is produced by a musician, musical engineer, or composer with a fundamental understanding of the composition of sound. The electronic music synthesizer provides means for the production of a tone with any frequency, intensity, growth, duration, decay, portamento, timbre, vibrato, and variation. If these properties of a tone are specified, the tone can be completely described. The advantage of the electronic music synthesizer is that it can produce new and radical tone complexes for musical satisfaction and gratification. The new system does not displace the artist and musician of today. It does not take the place of talent combined with work. The electronic music synthesizer provides the musician, musical engineer, and composer with a new musical tool with no inherent physical limitations.
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May 01 1955
Electronic Music Synthesizer
Harry F. Olson;
Harry F. Olson
RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
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Herbert Belar
Herbert Belar
RCA Laboratories, Princeton, New Jersey
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 27, 595–612 (1955)
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January 15 1955
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Harry F. Olson, Herbert Belar; Electronic Music Synthesizer. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 May 1955; 27 (3): 595–612. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1907975
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