[atlantaprog] Re: Raymond Scott -The Original Musical Mad Scientist

One of the Mothersbaugh brothers from DEVO owns that machine now, he apparently 
plans to restore it.

Allen Welty-Green <agmedia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:  The Electroharmonium rocks! 
Talk about a vintage synth!

On Jan 31, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Stan Woodard wrote:

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> Hormuz Minina turned me on to Raymond Scott?s work as an experimental 
> electronic composer when he used Scott?s music for an installation 
> last year.  I didn?t then that Scott was also the composer of some of 
> the best loved (by me) cartoon music!
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> Thanks for this post, Stan
>  
> Stan Woodard
> Communications Director
> Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
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> [mailto:atlantaprog-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil McKenna
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:22 PM
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> Subject: [atlantaprog] Raymond Scott -The Original Musical Mad 
> Scientist
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>> www.raymondscott.com
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>> Chances are you have heard this man's music and not even known who it 
>> was. Raymond Scott wrote a ton of music that wound up in MANY 
>> cartoons we grew up with. And not only that, but he wrote some real 
>> cutting edge jingles (50's/60's) and even created/invented a number 
>> of electronic devices for producing music and various sounds on 
>> (often working in collaboration with one Bob Moog).
>>  
>> I just downloaded some stuff from emusic.com recently from the 
>> "Microphone Music" and "Manhattan Research" compilations. Let's just 
>> say this dude was DECADES ahead of his time. Check out his website 
>> and be amazed
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