Peter Zinovieff and Electronic Music Studios
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Peter Zinovieff’s pioneering work into the fields of electronic music production and research led to many innovative electronic music instrument developments that were outstanding for the time. Peter was fascinated by electronic music and used his financial resources to develop a huge voltage-controlled studio that occupied an entire room in his home premises. There was a time when EMS (Electronic Music Studios) stood as equal to Moog and Arp. In many ways, EMS was more advanced with several pioneering ideas being investigated. Peter used two PDP8 minicomputers in the late 1960s to control the voltage-controlled analogue modules for research into electronic music exploration. Twenty years before affordable computing and sequencing packages, Zinovieff’s computers could store and replay compositions, complete with sound shaping parameters even inventing a form of spectral or additive synthesis. Excerpts are edited from the television documentaries “What the Future Sounded Like” and “The New Sound of Music” featuring the first public performance of music by a computer in the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1967. The spirit of EMS continues, and Peter’s synthesizer innovations like the VCS3 and Synthi 100 have become outstanding analogue classics.
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September 2nd, 2009
This is great!
Did …
This is great!
Did his computer system get rescued or was it left with rain pouring over it?
September 2nd, 2009
Many thanks and …
Many thanks and appreciation,
The article is edited from two documentaries, the first, “What The Future Sounded Like” is an Australian short film, funded partly by the AFF, and concerns the electronic music movement that began after World War 2, before the advent of home computers. A press kit is available from their website for more information. The second source is the 1979 BBC documentary “The New Sound of Music’, featuring a demonstration on an EMS Synthi 100.
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September 2nd, 2009
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Thanks for posting. Is this a clip from a longer prog ? If so, can you tell us more about it ?
September 2nd, 2009
Great job! Was his …
Great job! Was his work at Expo 67?
September 2nd, 2009
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September 2nd, 2009
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