This presentation summarizes the main takeaways from three parallel forensic projects in the context of technical memory work: one, housed at the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology, looks at what exactly made Hugh Le Caine's 1945-1948 electronic sackbut instrument special. Was it the first modular synthesizer? If not, what was it, exactly? The second, supported by McGill University's Center for Interdisciplinary Music, Media and Technology (CIRMMT), is a digital emulation of Gordon Mum...

Ezra J. Teboul

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