Material Culture

RCA Mark II Synthesizer


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A synthesizer the size of an entire room from the dawn of the age of computing lives at Columbia University's Prentice Hall. Why has it been preserved all of these years and why was it even constructed, given the great expense and the fact that it had only one function. Music Librarian Nick Patterson shares the story behind the birth of electronic music and its connections to early computing here at Columbia.  [...]Read More...
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Material CultureBy Columbia University Libraries