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I would probably stop short of rebuilding the RCA Mark II Synthesizer, but who knows where the line should be drawn?
Previous attempts at synthesiser-type instruments, such as the Hammond Novachord or the hulking United States Air Force-constructed RCA Mark II, generated sound using hundreds of individual vacuum tubes.
But in a preamble to his question Mr. Geffen noted that he had once visited the old Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, where Milton Babbitt, Otto Luening and other electronic music pioneers composed on the room-size RCA Mark II Synthesizer, which was state of the art when it was built in 1958.
The other, later type of electronic music was made of electronically generated tones, starting in 1959 with the appearance of the RCA Mark II Electronic Music Synthesizer, which filled most of a room and was driven by a strip of paper with holes punched in it.
Technology was the otherwise improbable Milton Babbitt's ticket of admission to maverickhood: he was represented by "Philomel," a virtuoso aria for soprano (sung by Lauren Flanigan -- into her music stand, alas) with a taped accompaniment produced in 1964 on the room-filling RCA Mark II Synthesizer, the techiest medium of its day, with a price tag of $175,000 to prove it.
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