Source: nytimes.com January 30, 2012 Folklorist’s Global Jukebox Goes Digital By LARRY ROHTER The folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax was a prodigious collector of traditional music from all over the world and a tireless missionary for that cause. Long before the Internet existed, he envisioned a “global jukebox” to disseminate and analyze the […]
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Early electronic music machine uncovered
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9671950.stm Imagine unearthing a piece of tech history that changed music forever. Nearly half a century after its invention, the Oramics machine – one of the most significant devices in the history of electronic music – has taken centre stage at the Science Museum for the first time. LJ Rich explains the invention of Daphne […]