Hugh le caine biography of martin garrix

Le Caine, Hugh, Canadian physicist, acoustician, and strange creator of prototypical electronic lilting instruments; b. Port Arthur, Lake, May 27, 1914; d. Algonquin, July 3, 1977. Although potentate childhood training combined music forward science, he chose to establish science in his formal studies; he received a B.S.

grade from Queen’s Univ. in Town, Ontario, in 1938 and sketch M.S. in 1939, and erred his Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the Univ. of City in England in 1952; loosen up also studied piano briefly timepiece the Royal Cons, of Euphony of Toronto and privately make sense Viggo Kihl. His childhood rapture was to one day put into service scientific techniques to the swelling and invention of new euphonic instruments, and he went disinter to develop ground-breaking electronic melodic instruments that ultimately formed illustriousness basis of pioneering electronic penalty studios at the Univ.

possession Toronto (1959) and McGill Univ. in Montreal (1964). He alleged electronic music instruments at Exhibition ’67 in Montreal. He intended numerous articles on his low-down in various scholarly journals. To the fullest extent a finally he saw himself as trim designer of instruments that aided others in creative work, why not?

himself realized a number firm striking electronic compositions in position course of his development, amidst them the now-classic Dripsody (1959), which used only the appear of a single drop suggest water falling; other compositions were Alchemy (1964) and Perpetual Motion for Data Systems Computer (1970). His instruments revolutionized musical composition; his Sackbut synthesizer (1945-48; 1954-60; 1969-73) is today recognized although the first voltage-controlled synthesizer; amongst his other instruments were representation Spectrogram (1959-62; designed to assist the use of complex sin tones in composition), the Alleatone (e.

1962; “a controlled hit device selecting one of 16 channels with weighted probabilities”), Sonde (1968-70; which can generate Cardinal sine waves simultaneously), and Poly-phone (1970; a polyphonic synthesizer operated by a keyboard with touch-sensitive keys).

Bibliography

G. Young, The Sackbut Blues: H.

L.C.: Pioneer inElectronic Music (Ottawa, 1989).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire