Inventing Electronic Music: Raymond Scott
In the late 1940s and beyond, electronic aural alchemy was taking place in the audio labs of Raymond Scott. Using self-engineered electronic instruments, he spent decades researching the secrets of synthesis, sequencing, and the collaborative composition of music between humans and machines. While his work did impact some of the most consequential figures in electronic music history, like Bob Moog and Herb Deutsch, in large part, Raymond Scott’s engineering accomplishments existed in a vacuum; t...
