“Does this qualify me for a prophet? Well, perhaps partially.”
Imagine if this dude had been your college music professor. Read a 4-page essay by Mongolian-born composer Vladamir Ussachevsky as printed in the 1/17/74 issue of DOWNBEAT magazine. Ussachevsky was one of the founders of the legendary Columbia-Princeton electronic music studio, and one of the folks who bridged the tape-manipulation and synthesizer eras of early electronic music. It’s almost impossible for us to grasp the conceptual leaps that these early pioneers had to make in order to arrive the formulation of audio-manipulation-as-music; for many of us working as musicians in the past few decades, it’s hard to even separate music and audio, so intertwined is audio technology with music, so thoroughly has the studio become-an-instrument.
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He reminds me of Alexander Bereskin….
Vintage magazine articles and papers:
A letter and collection of papers from Dr. Alexander Bereskin. Dr. Bereskin was a long time professor of Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He provided the following material to be published:
Introductory letter and biographical data (72kB PDF file)
“Build It Yourself – A 50 Watt High Quality Audio Amplifier” (5.4MB PDF file)
“A 3,000-Watt Audio Power Amplifier” (160kB PDF file)
“A High Efficiency – High Quality Audio Frequency Power Amplifier” (315kB PDF file)
“A Dual-Channel Transistor Power Amplifier” (195kB PDF file)
http://www.tubebooks.org/vintage_data.htm