English:
On 10/08/11 at 23.05 European time it´s finally Part two of the Harald Bode story:
Westdeutscher Rundfunk 3 Cologne will present “Music Is My Field- Harald Bode: The Art of Engineering and Homestudio Music”

It is about traces of his work in different musical styles from the thirties til the eighties,-
from “Melodium” melodies to “BarberPolePhaser” sound. And it´s about his own music.
If you go to

http://www.wdr3.de/open-freiraum/aktuell.html

http://www.wdr3.de/open-freiraum/details/artikel/music-is-my-field.html

and click “stream”(rechts in der Mitte), you will find the right player for your OS
Or: Below stream you will find the “Radiorecorder”
(“Stream” and “Radiorecorder” are provided by WDR 3. Sorry I can´t give any support. I recommend “radiorecorder” though for better sound quality.)

Here the announcement by the editor WDR 3 Markus Heuger:
“The story of the inventor of many electronic instruments, one of which was the inspiration for the first Moog Modulars, is also the story of the myth around Electronic sound. In the beginning it was mostly seen as a technological gimmick or miracle, or as a danger for culture itself.

Electronic sound since has become an everyday´s part of our musical

life. Harald Bode was admidst this evolution.
He invented seventeen instruments between 1937 and 1984. You can hear them in academic music of the Fifties, as well as in Disco music of the 80ties. WDR 3 open: FreiRaum presents the witchkitchen of the inventor and “soundpractioner”, who lived until 1987. He called his own music “commercial “. His studio and instruments he called “only means “.
“What miraculous means!”

So far the announcement.

This work was made possible through through support & help by:
Peer Bode, Rebekkah Palov, Devin Henry, Andrew Deutsch, Chris McDaniel (Institute of Electronic Arts, Alfred University, Bode Archive/Alfred und Hornell/ USA), Silke Berdux (Deutsches Museum München), Dr Wilhelm Füssl und den Mitarbeitern des Archivs Deutsches Museum Jan Groth, Goethe Schiller Archive Weimar (Germany), Jan Groth, Frau Harting (Bundesarchiv / German State Archiv), Herrn Fritsche und Herrn Rieden (University Bonn), Leslie Bellavance (Dean at School of Art and Design, NYSCC at Alfred University, Alfred USA). Stephan Kühmayer(WAST), Hans-Joachim Maempel (Technical University, Berlin), Gisela Simons (Sound Archive Bayerischer Rundfunk), Elena Ungeheuer (Technical University, Berlin), Thomas Rhea (Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA,USA), Dietmar Schenk und all Co-Workers (Archivs of University of Arts Berlin, Georg und Hanne Steinmeyer (Estey Organ Museum, Brattleboro, VT, USA ), Elena Ungeheuer (Technical University Berlin) Woody and Steina Vasulka (Alburuerque, NM, USA) and the sound archive of Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln.

ears up, Caspar Abocab

The Harald Bode Archive’s recent project, Issue 13.4 of eContact!

Communauté électroacoustique canadienne
(CEC) Canadian Electroacoustic Community

eContact! 13.4 — Harald Bode

[E] A panorama of the life and work of Harald Bode, the man behind what have long been household names in the electronic instrument industry: the Melodium (1938), Melochord (1947), Clavioline (1950s) and the Frequency Shifter in early Moog synths all bear the stamp of his celebrated designs and workmanship.
http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/13_4

[F] Un survol de la vie et l’¦uvre de Harald Bode, l’homme à l’origine de certains des instruments les plus connus de l’industrie des instruments électroniques : le Melodium (1938), le Melochord (1947), le Clavioline (années 50) et le Frequency Shifter des premiers synthétiseurs Moog sont autant de témoignages de la qualité de ses concepts et de leur réalisation.
http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact/13_4/index_fr.html

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[!!] eContact! 13.4 — Harald Bode http://cec.sonus.ca/econtact

Communauté électroacoustique canadienne (CEC) Canadian Electroacoustic Community
http://cec.sonus.ca | cec@sonus.ca
http://facebook.com/cec.sonus | http://twitter.com/CEC_ca

About the CEC

Founded in 1986, the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) is Canada’s official national association for electroacoustics and as such is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from “pure” acousmatic and computer music to soundscape and sonic art to hardware hacking and beyond.

The CEC endeavours to foster a broad, diverse and inclusive community of electroacoustic practitioners, raise the profile of electroacoustics in the Canadian arts milieu, and to promote Canadian electroacoustic composers and activities across Canada and internationally. The various ongoing and singular CEC activities aim to maintain and strengthen communications and information flow concerning electroacoustics.

With projects such as the electronic journal eContact!, the online jukebox SONUS, the annual Jeu de temps / Times Play (JTTP) project for Canadian-based young and emerging sound artists, and the Cache, PRESENCE and DISContact! CD compilation series, the CEC offers Canadian electroacousticians a venue to both promote themselves and participate within the global community, thereby fostering mutual awareness and benefit in the international scene.

Great thanks to everyone at CEC and eContact! for making this special issue happen!

Thank you Stephen Vitiello for bringing this great MATRIXSYNTH post by ‘el macaco’ to our attention!

Bode exhibit at Estey Organ Museum & a Note on The First Modulars

For download, here is a reprint copy of the electronics magazine article from December 1961. Harald had finished the design and was marketing the ‘Sound Synthesizer’ as early as March 1960.

Download PDF >> HBodeElectronics1961

very glad to hear people are enjoying the exhibit!!

PDF for 8.5×11 printing >> HBodeElectronics1961 scaled

A special offering at the exhibit is the Harald Bode Audio Tape Archive, with accompanying histories of the instruments written by Caspar Abocab. The Archive makes available in digital form recordings and demos beginning with the 1938 Melodium continuing through to the 1981 Barberpole Phaser. Also featured are Harald’s own musical compositions. The Audio Tape Archive has hours worth of material to enjoy.

Via Skype, Caspar Abocab presented an essay on Harald’s motivations and love of ‘known and unknown’ sound and how these inspired his work. Exhibition Director Georg Steinmeyer introduced the exhibit with personal stories of his colleague and friend Harald Bode.  Peer Bode presented the exhibition elements, highlighting Harald’s historical 1960 Modular Synthesizer, built in Brattleboro VT. Rebekkah Palov introduced the Harald Bode Audio Tape Archive. In attendance from the Estey years were Leslie Nicholas, Augusta Bartlett, Georg and Hanne Steinmeyer.

Harald Bode – A lifetime for Sound Exhibition opening with the Estey Electronic Organ model AS1 in foreground.

More photo’s from the opening

Estey Organ Museum
108 Birge Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301

Contact:
haraldbode.info@gmail.com
info@esteyorganmuseum.org
802-246-8366

Harald Bode Estey Flyer

Harald Bode (1909-1987 Hamburg, Germany) was an electronic musical instrument design pioneer. Harald’s career spans 50 years of innovation, during which he produced over 15 instruments. In 1937 he built his Warbo Formant electronic organ which had capabilities similar to those found in modern synthesizers. In the 20 years that followed Harald developed a series of electronic keyboard instruments whose design variously balanced between imitating known instruments and enabling completely new sound possibilities. He is credited with the first modular synthesizer / processor and renowned for his later stand-alone processors. In addition to being an engineering hero, Harald Bode’s life is an inspiration to the field of electronic sound.

Vorankündigung:
Zur Zeit arbeite ich für den WDR Köln an einer Sendung über einen Mann,
der alles über elektronische Klangerzeugung wusste:Harald Bode.
Die Sendung wird sich seinen Kompositionen und Demobändern widmen.

Doch zunächst: am 26.05.2010 um 0.05. -in seinem 101. Jahr -wird mein biographisches Portrait Bodes noch einmal von Deutschland Radio Kultur ausgestrahlt:
“Ein Leben für den Klang – Der Erfinder Harald Bode und die Elektronische Musik”  ist das Ergebnis der  Reise durch die Lebensgeschichte eines  Protagonisten der Geschichte dieser Musik. Länger als irgendein anderer war Harald Bode als Erfinder elektrischer/elektronischer Instrumente  tätig: von 1936 an in  Deutschland, ab 1954 in den USA,
In einer Montage aus Zitaten und Originaltönen von ihm selbst, Ausschnitten aus Radiosendungen  und Interviews mit Zeitgenossen wird nacherzählt, wie nicht nachlassende Neugier auf  Musik, die aus der Elektrik kommt,  ”Klangfarbenmusik” genannt, sein ganzes Leben bestimmte, und welche teilweise erbitterten Diskussionen darum geführt wurden, bis diese Klänge selbstverständlicher Teil der Palette musikalischer Möglichkeiten waren.
Harald Bodes Leben war kein Martyrium des Unverstandenen, er war ein erfolgsorientierter und- bewusster Mann.
Er hat noch miterlebt, dass  elektronische Klänge alltäglich wurden, und bis in seine letzten Jahre hinein, als Rentner,
Instrumente beigesteuert;  glücklich, sich ganz seiner Lebensaufgabe widmen zu können.

Wer Deutschland Radio Kultur weder über Antenne noch Satellit  empfangen kann, hat über diese Internet-Adresse die Möglichkeit:
http://www.dradio.de/. Unten rechts befindet sich ein Kasten mit der Überschrift Livestream. Zwei Zeilen darunter steht Deutschland Radio Kultur.
Zur Auswahl stehen flash, .wmp, mp3, .ogg. Eines dieser Formate sollte mit jedem Computer kompatibelsein.

Ein Leben Für Den Klang-Radiofeature von Caspar Abocab
Produktion Bayerischer Rundfunk, Redaktion und Regie: Dr Helga Montag, Tontechnik: Angelika Vetter-Wagner Büro:  Elisabeth Thiele, Renate Winkler
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Diese Arbeit wurde durch die unermüdliche Mithilfe von Peer Bode, Devin Henry,  Andrew Deutsch, Chris McDaniel und Rebekkah Palov (Alfred University/Bode Archive/Alfred und Hornell/ USA) möglich. Ein besonderer Dank geht ausserdem an Silke Berdux(Deutsches Museum München), Goethe Schiller Archiv Weimar,  Frau Harting (Bundesarchiv), Herrn Fritsche und Herrn  Rieden (Universität Bonn), Stephan Kühmayer(WAST), Hans-Joachim Maempel (TU Berlin), Thomas Rhea (Berklee College of Music/Boston), Gisela Simons (Archiv Bayerischer Rundfunk), Kilian Steiner (Loewe Ag) Georg und Hanne Steinmeyer(Estey Museum Brattleboro), Elena Ungeheuer (TU Berlin),  Woody und Steina Vasulka und  sowie das Schallarchiv des Westdeutschen Rundfunks Köln.

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This radiodocumentary by Caspar Abocab is based on an intense journey through the times and life of a man, who contributed musical devices to the world of electronic sound, as we know it today longer than hardly anybody else. A montage of cites from notebooks, letters,publications and european radioprograms from the early fifties also document the struggle and debate about music through electronic means, which finally lead to Harald Bodes immigration to the United States, because he didn´t want to be a starving martyr, who couldn´t support his family properly. Besides daytime jobs as a developing engineer, which lead to the introduction of new technologies into electronic instruments, he found time and energy to develop new instruments, as well as for his own compositions.
Even when he was a retired engineer, he built instruments which were widely used. He was proud and happy to have become a well renowned player in this field again, happy to hear his instruments in popular tunes as well as in avantgarde music.
In his 101st year this radioprogram will be broadcast throughout Germany by Deutschland Radio Kultur and worldwide via internet livestream:
go to http://www.dradio.de/
Down at the right you find a box with the headline “livestream”
Two lines below” Deutschland Radio Kultur” is written.
Click on either flash, .wmp, mp3, .ogg, whatever works best with your computer.

A work by Caspar Abocab
Edited and directed by Dr Helga Montag, soundengineer: Angelika Vetter-Wagner, office: Elisabeth Thiele, Renate Winkler
produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk 2009

English voices to be heard : Harald Bode, Ralf Bode, Peer Bode, Dr Thomas Rhea and others
Voices translating the original english voices into German:Johannes Steck, Thomas Loibl, Rahel Comtesse, Burchard Dabinnus, Andreas Neumann, Walter von Hauff.
Voices in German: Irmgard Bode, Georg und Hanne Steinmeyer, Werner Meyer-Eppler, Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Günter Bialas, Harald Bode, Ralf Bode and others .

This Radio documentary was made possible through the generous support of research resources by Peer Bode, Andrew Deutsch, Devin Henry, Chris McDaniel and Rebekkah Palov, (courtesy of the Harald Bode Archive and the Institute for Electronic Arts, NYSCC at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, USA).

Special thanks go to Silke Berdux (Deutsches Museum München), Goethe Schiller Archive Weimar (Germany), Frau Harting (Bundesarchiv / German State Archiv), Herrn Fritsche und Herrn Rieden (University Bonn), Stephan Kühmayer(WAST), Hans-Joachim Maempel (Technical University, Berlin), Gisela Simons (Sound Archive Bayerischer Rundfunk), Elena Ungeheuer (Technical University, Berlin), Tom Rhea (Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA,USA), Georg und Hanne Steinmeyer (Estey Organ Museum, Brattleboro, VT, USA ), Woody and Steina Vasulka (Alburuerque, NM, USA) and Joe Lewis III (Dean of the School of Art and Design, NYSCC at Alfred University, Alfred, NY, USA), Soundarchive WDR Cologne.

The Estey Organ Museum
108 Birge Street
Brattleboro, VT 05301
802-246-8366

contact:
haraldbode.info@gmail.com
info@esteyorganmuseum.org
802-246-8366

Model of the Estey electronics lab – Les Nicholas 2010

Funded in part by The Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA), NYSCC at Alfred University and The  New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).

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A Lifetime for Sound – retrospective of physicist Harald Bode.