{"id":950,"date":"2009-09-22T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=950"},"modified":"2010-05-16T15:52:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T14:52:45","slug":"filler-by-proxy-lxxiv-percy-graingers-electric-eye-tone-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/09\/filler-by-proxy-lxxiv-percy-graingers-electric-eye-tone-tool.html","title":{"rendered":"Filler By Proxy LXXIV: Percy Grainger&#8217;s Electric Eye Tone Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short video of Warren Burt and Catherine Schieve playing the last of Percy Grainger&#8217;s free music instruments, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.experimentalperformance.ca\/archive\/Burt.html\">Electric Eye Tone Tool<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Between 1954 and 1961, Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross worked on a machine called the Electric Eye Tone Tool. Years later, I was looking at the diagram of the Electric Eye machine in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.unimelb.edu.au\/collections\/grainger\/\">Grainger Museum<\/a> and I said, &#8220;That should be fairly easy to rebuild.&#8221; Well, it turns out it&#8217;s not fairly easy to rebuild but it was rebuildable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Electric Eye Tone Tool seems to be the first light-controlled synthesizer. Its oscillator circuits were transistorised (more stable than the old valve technology) and could be controlled graphically, simply by painting a score onto a transparent plastic sheet which could then be passed over the instrument&#8217;s array of photoelectric cells.  Take that, <a href=\"http:\/\/membres.lycos.fr\/musicand\/INSTRUMENT\/DIGITAL\/UPIC\/UPIC.htm\">UPIC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Burt has written a brief study of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianmusiccentre.com.au\/article\/some-musical-and-sociological-aspects-of-australian-experimental-music\">the history of experimental music in Australia<\/a>, reprinted at the Australian Music Centre website.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style: italic;\">(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgraeve.com\/\">Mr Graeve<\/a>.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short video of Warren Burt and Catherine Schieve playing the last of Percy Grainger&#8217;s free music instruments, the Electric Eye Tone Tool: Between 1954 and 1961, Percy Grainger and Burnett Cross worked on a machine called the Electric Eye Tone Tool. Years later, I was looking at the diagram of the Electric Eye machine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4296,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}