The ‘Composer-tron’ Osmond Kendall. Canada, 1951

Developed as early as 1944 by Osmond ‘Ken’ Kendall, an electronic engineer at the National Film Board of Canada (NFBC) (and colleague of the animator Norman McLaren) the ‘Compositron’ and later the ‘Composer-Tron’ was an analogue synthesis and composition apparatus that utilised an innovative and unique control system. The Composer-Tron had a cathode ray tube input … Continue reading The ‘Composer-tron’ Osmond Kendall. Canada, 1951