Instruments | Dynaphone | Modern Era | Classical
While in Paris, Varèse became interested in the dynaphone. Invented by René Bertrand and Nadal in 1927, this monophonic instrument was placed on a table. The right hand turned a knob controlling the pitch of an oscillator, while the left hand controlled volume and timbre. Honegger wrote for four dynaphones and a piano in his ballet score Roses de metal; despite his interest, Varèse himself never collaborated with Bertrand in developing new electronic instruments.
In 1931, Cowell collaborated with Lev Theremin on developing an electronic machine capable of playing polyrhythmic music, the ‘rhythmicon’. Cowell also wrote a concerto specially for it, performed in 1971, with a computer, not with the original device.
Styles & Forms | Modern Era | Classical
Instruments | Synthesizer | Modern Era | Classical
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