LE CAINE PIONEERS ELECTRONIC MUSIC.
Le Caine mounted his
prototype electronic Sackbut of 1948
on crude three legged wooden stand
Music synthesizer is also called electronic sound
synthesizer is a machine that electronically modifies and generate sound, with
the uses of a computer
It is hard to imagine how popular music might have evolved
without the use of the synthesizer and other such electronic innovations. Although
Dr. Robert Moog is a household name for his pioneering efforts in this field,
important ground work was done several decades earlier by a Canadian physicist and
instrument designer named huge le Caine(1914-977). One of his instruments in
particular, the electronics Sackbut, is now widely recognized as being the
first controlled synthesizer.
The commercial Moog recording was made by Wendy Carlos in
the year of 1968, record switched on Bach, one of the highest selling classical
musical recording
Developed at the University of Toronto, Canada, in 1945, le Caine’s Sackbut featured a piano type keyboard build into an old desk. Until most of
the early commercial synthesizer the appeared at the start of the 1970, Le Caine’s
instrumental was touch sensitive; the characteristics of the sound altered
according to how lightly or forcefully the keyboard was played, giving the Sackbut much the same potential expressiveness as a real acoustic instrument
Two other particularly innovative designs featured also
stand out: the use of adjustable wave form to create basic sound, and the use
of voltage control to alter certain characteristic of the sound, such as pitch
and modulation. Sound quality was also altered electronically by manipulating
special filters. Voltage control would be used on most subsequent synthesizer
produced until the early 1980s.
Le Caine would revisit the Sackbut in 1971, but although he
intended to produce a commercial instrument, the project failed. Despite his
public obscurity, Huge le Caine’s instrument had a great deal of influence on
the world of electronic music
It is used in live
performance and composition of electronic music
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