Magic Music From The Telharmonium Documentary
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Uploaded by audiolemon on Nov 12, 2007
It was 1906. "Get Music on Tap Like Gas or Water" promised the headlines, and soon the public was enchanted with inventor Thaddeus Cahill's (1867-1934) electrical music by wire.
The Telharmonium was a 200-ton behemoth that created numerous musical timbres and could flood many rooms with sound.
Beginning with the first instrument, constructed in the 1890's, and continuing with the installation of the second instrument at Telharmonic Hall in New York, the rise and fall of commercial service, the attempted comeback of the third Telharmonium, and ending with efforts to find a home for the only surviving instrument in 1951, this documentary provides a definitive account of the first comprehensive music synthesizer.
You can get a full DVD of this documentary:
http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Music-Telharmonium-Reynold-Weidenaar/dp/B000JUBF0...
This clip was reposted from http://magneticmusic.ws/mmvideo.htm with the permission of Reynold Weidenaar.
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Ahhh...the first additive synthesizer utilizing electricity. Cool!
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The world's first electronic organ. Too bad it didn't survive the invention of radio.
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Very Cool!!!
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I really wonder what the Telharmonium sounded like.
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Anniversary of 120 years of electronic music, where I think these songs to download? amazing, I love history review
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@SolomanVain That is like saying a church trombone choir in the 17th century is the root of a New Orleans brass bands. The instrument does not make the genre, but rather a larger subset of typical modes, rhythms, and feelings.
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wow, analog synths are much older then i ever have tought !
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Who's narrating this?
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Música electrónica en linea desde 1890. Grandioso!
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like every music genre has his roots, this is the roots of dubstep
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@toborexperiment both of you (toborexperiment and jonnda) are roughly saying the same thing, but labeling the notions differently
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We need a VST version!
UncleFeedle 3 years ago 24
haha... we'd have to guess how it sounded first, then somehow make all it fit in Abletons window :)
audiolemon 3 years ago 8