rest of the presentations

• history of film sound: early film sound 1890-1920, film was played along with live music. the only type of music that would be played was popular music at that time. kinetoscope 1910, thomas edison was the first to successfully sync sound in to video. the kinetescope was a machine that would let you watch short films for 25 cents. lee de forest 1873-1931, he invented the audion tubes, sunrise 1927, around this time they needed a person standing by the projection machine to explain what was going on in the film because it was so new to people that it was just insane. sunrise was the last silent film ever made and it lead to the first film with sound. jazz singer 1927, vitaphone sound on disc. the fidelity of it was better than the phonofilm. it was very successful for how bad it worked. fantasia 1940, it was a the first time a movie had multi track recording. it had 30 speakers around the theater for surround system.
• amon adonai santos de arujo tobin 1970. brazilian electronic producer, sampler and performer. works on albums indie movie sound tracks and video game sound tracks. sample based music comprised of jazz instruments. was commended for his use of meldy and texture, adding sounds with the clarity of a classical orchestrator. all sounds recorded by himself with an omnidirectional mic.
• korg: founders are tsutomu katoh and tadashi osanai. first product was keio gijyutu kenkyujo da20 doncamatic disk rotary electric auto rhythm machine released in 1963, featured pre programmed drum patterns and had built in speakers. mini korg 700 was the first synth released in 1973. a monophonic synth. 900ps preset synth released in 1975 it was monophonic with 29 presets. korgs most successful product was released 1988 and introduced the concept o the music workstation.
• drum machines: wurlitzer sideman released 1959. first elec. dru machine produced without tape loops. r1 rythm ace/ fri rhythm ace was made by ace tone (roland 1972) in 1964 the worlds first fully transistorized rhythm machine. wasnt successful because it had no preprogramed patterns. sounds were very revolutionary however. roger linn. 1955.  created lm1 drum computer first to use digital samples. linn9000 released 1984 combined a sampling drum macine with a multi track midi sequencer. very large. the firm ware on this machine was upgradeable.
• ray kurzweil born 1948. in 1965 invented a computer that could recognize notes and then create a new melody in  a similar fashion. he founded kurzweil computer products in 1974. he developed the first computer that used omni-font character recognition, it could recognize any text. 1983 introduced the k250 performance synth. "the age of spiritual machines". written in 1999, kurzweil predicts that within the next hundred years computers will become intelligent and indistinguishable from human beings. he is known for his crazy predictions but 90% of them come true