"Fessenden's Broadcast"

Reginald Fessenden and the radio... he was famous for his self-made radio broadcasts, he had created the world's first voice and music transmission using radio waves, and this across the Atlantic Ocean on December 24, 1906.

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"Reginald Aubrey Fessenden — or Reg, as he was known — was born in Quebec in 1866. He was the son of an Anglican minister, a lover of cats and he grew up to have the stature of a Viking. He also invented the first wireless system of transmitting speech. But he's been overshadowed by others, including fellow radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi."

"Imagine being one of the workers on a boat in 1906 sailing across the ocean at night; waiting around the wireless, which you've heard playing dots and dashes. Suddenly, for the first time in history, a voice comes over the air: Reginald Fessenden introducing a recording of Handel's Largo, a Bible reading and a little fiddle music. It must have been hard to believe what they were hearing."

Article: This Canadian radio pioneer dreamed of 'words without wires' by Chris Chang-Yen Phillips · for Canada 2017 · CBC

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Photo image: "Reginald Fessenden demonstrated that sound — not simply Morse code — could be transmitted over radio, leading the way for radio broadcasting." (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Media resources: https://www.cbc.ca/2017/this-canadian-radio-pioneer-dreamed-of-words-without-wires-1.4042893

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Fessenden's Broadcast

And go past the forest 
where you can slowly wake up
or you can take your time 
and let the seasons catch up
slip off your shoes 
and feel the earth 
your ears will start to ring
and life will sing.

You've just got to swing past the 
forest 
where colours can blind you 
and everything finds you 
it can drive you insane 

You've got to slow down now
or you'll grow cold.
Leap past the flowers that sleep,
The hours that spring those old 
Shadows confuse you 
and the silence is loud 
your're reaching for the light
your're losing sight 

You've just got to swing past the
forest
where colours can blind you 
and everything finds you 
it can drive you insane

and go past the forest 
where you can slowly wake up

The Factory "Path Through the Forest" 1968

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"Lifework is music: a dream for the development of electronic musical instruments." 

─  Ikutarō Kakehashi ─ (1930 - 2017) Inventor, engineer, educator, founded Roland Corporation (1972), Japan.
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○ This Soundcloud page is an electronic music archive dedicated to Ikutaro Kakehashi and his life work. A recognition to the many electronic musical instruments that Mr. Kakehashi and the Roland Corporation had invented, their dedicated work created a revolution in music making technology.

○ Note: all of the electronic music instruments used in the making of this music were from the Roland Corporation; they were used exclusively in producing the timbre and sound-effects of the music. These Roland synthesizers included both early analog and modern digital synthesizer models, such as, the SH-5, System 100, Jupiter 4, or the Alpha-Juno, JV-1080 and the JD-800, among several others.

○ Any other music equipment of a different manufacturer's name served only to control pitch and articulation of the various Roland synthesizers.

○ Final sound modification came from off-board effects units, mainly reverb, delay and chorus, and these were all Roland equipment, except for only a few.

* (Note: in the studio photo images the Korg Prophecy keyboard functioned only as a secondary midi controller and the Synthesizers.com sequential controller, model Q960, was used for processing only control-voltage, trigger and gate information; they provided no audio output)

○ The music compositions were all improvised, live recordings, including earlier works that were recorded using a multi-track midi software: Opcode's Studio Vision.

○  These music works  are unedited audio tracks that are available for download as high fidelity wave files.

♪ All rights reserved © Blair M. Cleveland, SOCAN member 1998.
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Film score and soundtrack works:

○ Cable TV Documentary: "The Steam Dream", 1992 ─  Maclean-Hunter Ltd.

○ Spoken Book: "David Cole's Story", 1997 

○ Feature Film: "Famous Dead People", 1999 / https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4958025/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr7

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Fessenden's Broadcast

Roland Sound Studio