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"It looks like some kind of old telephone exchange!"
-Sound on Sound "SOS Guide to Choosing a Modular Synth" April 2009

The interface designs in analog synthesizers owe their lineage to switchboards created for the telephone industry to patch and transmit voices and signals.

MERIDIAN7 is a solo project based in Brooklyn, New York that brings original telephone equipment back to a life of patching signals again by transforming them into instruments modular synthesizers and analog sequencers. This project stems from two personal experiences happening in quick succession:
  Telephone switchboard seen by chance in a tiny lighthouse museum in Escanaba, a rural town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
   Buchla 100 modular synthesizer at NYU, as part of the electronic music synthesis class.  

 

   Escanaba MI museum switchboard     NYU Music Technology
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