Science Museum, London: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music

This sounds great:

Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music

at the Science Museum, London, until Dec 2012

Stuff about Oramics, the Telephonic Workshop, and vintage synths and other stuff.

Here's Brian Eno talking about it, and music tech generally:

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I was thinking today about a piece of technology that makes Daphne Oram’s graphic synthesizer from 1957, a centrepiece of the Science Museum’s new show, look quite conservative. It’s called the Telharmonium. It was built by a man called Thaddeus Cahill in 1906. He built three versions and the biggest weighed 200 tons ...

they also have a remix competition - running till 16/Jan/2012, with Telephonic Workshop samples to work from

http://oramics.herokuapp.com/

bump.

how about a watmm meetup?

sweet.