In this post I will gather a few fun facts from the chapter titled Sound.
Luigi Russolo
Cahill’s Telharmonium (1896)
inspired by the work of Hermann von Helmholtz and Fourier
‘used Fourier’s principle of additive synthesis: more complex, polyphonic tones could be built up from the manipulation of simple frequencies or individual harmonic partials’
‘the first version of this device was constructed from a series of thirty-five rheotome alternators-tone wheels with small ridges that, when routed close to a magnetic coil, produced alternating current that was subsequently converted into sound.’
the first electronical synthesizer