1963 Computer Speech Synthesis 7"Record By Bell Telephone Labs Voice Duplication

$

40

Hi everyone,

Both record and sleeve are in very nice condition, with a few minor scuffs on the record, and minimal age wear on the sleeve. Apparently this guy is pretty rare!

Size: 7"

Speed: 33 1/3 RPM

Dead wax # PB-287-N2. *******AM records I think, as there's a tiny triangle with the letters AM inside it engraved there.

Please hover your mouse over photo 3 to read about this item. More useful info found on other sellers' (thanks guys:) previous listings of this same record are added bellow.

Thanks all for looking, any questions or requests, please feel free to email me.

Cheers!

Useful info:

Scarce one-sided private pressing issued by the folks behind the legendary Music From Mathematics and Voice Of The Computer early electronic music lps. This artifact presents the first ever recordings of electronic speech synthesis, as researched at Bell Labs by scientist D.H. VanLenten using an ancient punchcard-fed IBM mainframe computer. A narrator discusses the wonders of "speech artificially constructed from the basic building blocks of the English language" and the issues of timing, pitch, and accents, and provides several computerized speech examples including the "to be or not to be" soliloquy from Hamlet and the song "Bicycle Built for Two" (in 2 versions, one a capella and one accompanied by synthesized tones probably programmed by Max Mathews [though this is a different version from the track on the Music From Mathematics album]). This record was apparently distributed to school libraries around the US (reportedly making a memorable impression on many awestruck children), and inspired filmmaker Stanley Kubrick in his staging of HAL's death scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey (when HAL sings "Bicycle Built for Two").

Starting in the late 1950s, Bell Labs hosted the first artists and scientists to experiment with computer music and speech, including Max Mathews, John R. Pierce, Newman Guttman, Jean-Claude Risset, James Tenney, Roger N. Shepard, and Edgard Varese. • This record will be of interest to fans of electronic, computer, and vocoder musicians like Herbert Eimert, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Paul Lansky, Jon Appleton, Cylob, Rephlex, Robert Moog, Bruce Haack, Vocoder, Italo, Luke Vibert, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Mu-Ziq, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Laurie Anderson, Skinny Puppy, and Invisibl Skratch Piklz.


INTERNATIONAL SHOPPERS: Please inquire about shipping charges to your country, and remember, Taxes and Fees required by your customs are your responsibility, and not included in this item sale price. I will not lie on the customs form, as it is punishable by law. Also, sorry, but I will only ship to Confirmed Paypal addresses. Thank you for your understanding.