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New Museum's Rhizome Dives Into the History of Electronic Music

by Matthew Zuras on January 19, 2010 at 05:40 PM

We know that you nerds can't live without documentaries or glitchy electro noise, and, for that matter, neither can we. The New Museum's geeky art blog Rhizome (one of our favorites) will be posting videos and docs about the history of electronic music this entire week, and we are delighted.

Rhizome has already published: the Bell Labs audio of the IBM 704 singing "Daisy Bell" (which we reported in November to massive Diggage); a bizarre 1940 demonstration of the Sonovox (a sort of precursor to the Vocoder, and, dare we say it, dreaded Auto-Tune); and a doc about the creepy tones transmitted via the Telharmonium, a turn-of-the-century gadget of potential interest to MIDI enthusiasts. Check out Rhizome for more this whole week. [From: Rhizome]

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