Gadget Playground
Monthly Event Series Focused on Electronic Music Production
Join us each month for an event focused on electronic music production, featuring guest speakers, demonstrations and instruments on display. Afterwards, explore what's available from the Musical Instrument Lending Library. This program takes place in the North Wing Music Room on the 2nd floor.
For November’s Gadget Playground, Pittsburgh composer David Mahler, using the polishing cloth of time’s perspective, will shine up true tales, (shaded by memory), of his initiation into and involvement with electronic music.
In 1970, Mahler first placed his fingers on an electronic music-making instrument—more sci-fi console than lap-sized gizmo. In a limited-user studio at California Institute of the Arts, at work at a single Buchla synthesizer in the company of several reel-to-reel tape recorders, Mahler set sail on a life-altering musical voyage.
Under his guidance, we’ll step back to a time pre-just-about-everything we presently know and use in electronic music making. In addition to hearing Mahler’s recollections, we’ll listen to early pieces by several pioneering composers. Participants should expect to participate in a few live sonic activities born of electronic music explorations.
Hosted by CLP - Main's Music, Film & Audio Department
Free to the public
For November’s Gadget Playground, Pittsburgh composer David Mahler, using the polishing cloth of time’s perspective, will shine up true tales, (shaded by memory), of his initiation into and involvement with electronic music.
In 1970, Mahler first placed his fingers on an electronic music-making instrument—more sci-fi console than lap-sized gizmo. In a limited-user studio at California Institute of the Arts, at work at a single Buchla synthesizer in the company of several reel-to-reel tape recorders, Mahler set sail on a life-altering musical voyage.
Under his guidance, we’ll step back to a time pre-just-about-everything we presently know and use in electronic music making. In addition to hearing Mahler’s recollections, we’ll listen to early pieces by several pioneering composers. Participants should expect to participate in a few live sonic activities born of electronic music explorations.
Hosted by CLP - Main's Music, Film & Audio Department
Free to the public
All Ages
Door: Free
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