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Doctor Bocci's Moog Synthesizer
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Located in the 'Old Baptist Foundation" center across the street from the school of
music's Altgeld Hall, Bob Pina and I spent many months in this Moog Synthesizer Laboratory composing soundscapes and freeform
music.
One of our main inspirations was John Cage's music. I always felt
we were trying to emulate his approach.
We filled several reel to reel tapes with long and short compositions. Alas,
since it was pre-digital age, we had no back ups and those tapes were either stolen or taped over some time shortly after
we got them finished.
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Not pictured here would be microphones, dozens of phone plug to phone plug cables for connecting the flangers,
ring modulators, tone controllers, etc. Most input was done with microphone, although electric instruments could be
used to trigger the sound modulators.
It seems impossible that all these functions can fit inside a standard keyboard or even smaller units such
as items like "Jerry-in-a-Box" that guitarists link together nowadays.
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