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Clavecin Électrique

from Swallowing the Echo Balloon by Str8 Sounds

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Little song commemorating the Clavecin Électrique.

This instrument was constructed by the Jesuit priest Jean-Baptiste Delaborde in Paris, France, 1759.

The Clavecin Électrique or ‘Electric Harpsichord’ is one of the earliest documented instruments that used electricity to create musical sound. One could correctly state that Electronic Music technically began in 1759.

Despite it’s name The Clavecin Électrique was not a stringed instrument but a carillon type keyboard instrument using a static electrical charge (supplied by a Leyden Jar, an early form of capacitor invented by the Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden around 1745) to vibrate metal bells.

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from Swallowing the Echo Balloon, released January 8, 2023

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Str8 Sounds Peoria, Illinois

At age 6, I was changing speeds on reel to reel tape recorders & thus was born an electronic musician, Str8 Sounds, on physical synthesizers, digital loops, samples, online instruments, field recordings, slide whistles, harmonicas, etc.

Gave Andy Warhol a tape of my music, NYC 1986.

1st official Str8 Sounds performance was @ Montage of Madness festival, Canton, IL, 1991, sponsor - Ed Carper.
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