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The Radiophonic Laboratory: ​Telecommunications,
Electronic Music, and the Voice of the Ether.

The history of electronic music is intimately tied up with the history of radio and telecommunications. Many of the same breakthroughs and devices invented by electrical engineers for communicating in morse code, telephone and radio were adapted for use by musicians. Electricity opened up new worlds of sound beginning in the 19th century.

The articles indexed here are arranged into chapters based on subject, and are all part of a book that is an exploration of this musical landscape and the voice of the ether.

Many of these articles have first appeared in various issues of The Q-Fiver, the newsletter of the Oh-Ky-In Amateur Radio Society.


Tuning the Terrestrial Monochord: Music with Roots in the Aether 
(Thomas Watson, La Monte Young, Robert Fludd, Harry Smith)

Chapter 1: TELEPHREAQUENCIES 

​The Musical Telegraph

The Telharmonium

Sounds of the Arc

The Wireless Organ

​The Audion Piano & Vladimir Ussachevsky's Wireless Fantasy

Lev Theremin & The Vibrations of the Ether (Part 1)

Lev Theremin & The Vibrations of the Ether (Part 2)

Two Pioneers of Spread Spectrum Radio: Hedy Lamarr & George Antheil

Chapter 2 :  THE SYNTHESIS OF SPEECH

The Voder & Vocoder

SIGSALY: Muzak, Turntables & Cryptography

AUDREY: Speech Recoginition

A Bicycle Built for Two

Charles Dodge: Speech Songs

From a Clockwork Orange to DMR

Linear Predictive Coding: Itakura, Schroeder, Atal and Lansky
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Chapter 3: GLASS BEAD GAMES: INFORMATION THEORY & CYBERNETICS

Games of Dice and Games of Glass 

Information Theory: When Data become Dada

Stockhausen, Information Theory & Cycles 

Cybernetic Systems 

​The System of LICHT

Data Sonification: From Mographs to Codes of Soil

Chapter 4: BORDER DISSOLVE IN RADIO SPACE

Imaginary Landscapes: John Cage part 1

Water Walk and Variations: John Cage part 2

Gesang der Jungline, Telemusik & Hymnen: Karlheinz Stockhausen part 1

​Kurzwellen & Other Shortwave Works  Stockhausen part 2

Holger Czukay: Radio Wave Surfer

Takeisha Kosugi: Wave Catcher

William Basinski's River of Shortwave

Eavesdropping with Scanner

Trawling the Megahertz

Chapter 5: WE ALSO HAVE SOUND HOUSES

Musician of Sounds: Noise, Pierre Schaeffer and Musique Concrete

The Sound-Houses of Daphne Oram

The Spherical Vortices of Delia Derbyshire

The Bell Sound: From Alice to Amy

The Bell Sound 2: Taking it to the Max

The Bell Sound 3: Grooving with Laurie Spiegel

John Chowning: Audio Hacker and FM Synthesist

Chapter 6: DO OR DIY 

The San Francisco Tape Music Center: Part I

The San Francisco Tape Music Center: Part II

The ONCE Group: Midwest Origin Stories

ONCE Upon A Time in Ann Arbor

The Sonic Arts Union:  Part I: The Sonic Poetry of Alvin Lucier

The Sonic Arts Union: Part II: David Behrman's Melodious Electronic Systems

The Sonic Arts Union: Part III: Mumma Drifts: The Cunningham Circus and Cage Reunions

The Sonic Arts Union: Part IV: Robert Ashley at the CCM

The League of Automatic Music Composers

The HUB

Q. Reed Ghazala Gets Bent

Heil Sound Systems

The Strange World of F. C. Judd G2BCX

Chapter 7: THE ART OF TRANSMISSION

Telstar: The Bird and the Birdsong

Going Over the Edge: Don Joyce

Teletouring Across the Timezones

The Crystal Psalms of Alvin Curran

The Lunar Phases of St. GIGA

Chapter 8: VOICE OF THE AETHER

Voice of the Aether
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Ylem: Music for an Oscillating Universe

A Brief History of Radio Astronomy

A Brief History of Space Music

On the Unknown Pleasure of Pulsars

The Acoustic Astronomy of Dr. Fiorella Terenzi

Dark Matter with Lustmord

Echoes from the Moon

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