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Split any sound into twelve bands and play them by hand. Set them moving until the source becomes a ghost of itself.
Back in the 50s and 60s, there were no synthesizers. The pioneers of electronic music built it out of whatever they could repurpose: lab signal generators, test equipment, tape machines pushed past their day jobs. The Albiswerk 502 was one of the few exceptions. State-of-the-art Swiss engineering, no budget limit, built from the start to do one thing: take a sound apart and put it back together however you liked.
It shipped as two heavy blocks, and it cost so much that the BBC Radiophonic Workshop could only afford one of them. WDR in Cologne had it. So did RAI in Milan. I tracked one down and sampled it, every band and every bit of dirt. The device that shaped early electronic music is now a plugin, in your hands.
