<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:723.2px;font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><div class="gmail-"><div id="gmail-:60d" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="font-size:0.875rem;direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:5j1" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:small;line-height:1.5;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/john-chowning-/capsula" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">Podcast: Conversation with John Chowning , the inventor of FM synthesis: the technique that revolutionized the world of synthesizers andthe sound of electronic music in the eighties. </span></b></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Link: </span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/john-chowning-/capsula" target="_blank"><span style="color:windowtext">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/john-chowning-/capsula</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">As a man of many, interconnected facets, John Chowning has played a leading role in several chapters of the history of electronic music. As a composer, his is one of the few essential names in any overview of computer music made in the United States in the early seventies. In 1964, with the help of Max Mathews (from the legendary Bell Labs, where computer music was virtually born) and David Poole from Stanford University, Chowning began using Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence laboratory for his experiments. Years later, in 1975, he founded the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford, which remains one of the key centres in music technology research anywhere in the world. Lastly, in his role as developer, Chowning is the inventor of FM synthesis: the technique that revolutionized the world of synthesizers and the sound of electronic music in the eighties. </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">In this podcast, John Chowning charts a historical overview of the different branches of his artistic career, focusing on his interest in the human voice, the creation of new sonorities, and being a pioneer in a discipline at a time when using computers to generate music was a leap into the void between creative eccentricity and scientific adventure. </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Timeline</span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">02:09</span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> Early interest in sound </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">09:33</span></b><span sty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