Comments on: Attack of the Solenoids! http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/attack-of-the-solenoids OBSESSED WITH VIBRATING AIR MOLECULES Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: D. Kristian http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/attack-of-the-solenoids#comment-2454 D. Kristian Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:35:16 +0000 http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/?p=1758#comment-2454 Very interesting. Like a cross between the Raymond Scott Wall of Sound sequencer and the Xylomatic. Raymond Scott's "wall of sound" was essentially a complex electro-mechanical sequencer that triggered an array of Eico 377 audio generators (and possibly many other things). The Wall of Sound: http://www.keyboardmuseum.com/pic/other/1950/manhattan.gif The Eico 377(which I also used to own): http://users.stargate.net/~tofu/pix/eico_377.jpg The Xylomatic (available on eBay from time to time): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smVAnBWDsyE Very interesting. Like a cross between the Raymond Scott Wall of Sound sequencer and the Xylomatic.

Raymond Scott’s “wall of sound” was essentially a complex electro-mechanical sequencer that triggered an array of Eico 377 audio generators (and possibly many other things).

The Wall of Sound:

http://www.keyboardmuseum.com/pic/other/1950/manhattan.gif

The Eico 377(which I also used to own):

http://users.stargate.net/~tofu/pix/eico_377.jpg

The Xylomatic (available on eBay from time to time):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smVAnBWDsyE

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