"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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"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