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John Chowning

John Chowning

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Sep 22, 2026

Michael BoddickerGUEST
26:05
know, close to double that.
Michael BoddickerGUEST
26:06
But anyway, now we're, I've been in talks with NAMM for a year and a half, and I have a couple of different synthesizer clubs, you know, that have really, really good you know, accomplished members, Rousseau and John Chowning and Tom Oberheim and those people in the synthesizer clubs.
Michael BoddickerGUEST
26:33
And, you know, we want to do something, particularly I want to do something while we have these people alive where we can actually get to hear them and talk to them.
Michael BoddickerGUEST
26:42
Most definitely.
Elif YalvaçHOST
3:14
Yeah, because this is very central.
Elif YalvaçHOST
3:16
Maybe I can say that I did, I was thinking we had already covered an episode for John Chowning because it's so deeply imprinted in my brain all the time.
Elif YalvaçHOST
3:27
As a pioneer, he is.
Elif YalvaçHOST
3:29
And actually, last year he did, give a seminar on this in Goldsmith University, which I missed.
Elif YalvaçHOST
6:45
Yeah, that's very important.
Elif YalvaçHOST
6:46
When it was first officially invented, that was in 1982.
Elif YalvaçHOST
6:52
And the first process was John Chowning writing a paper for it.
Elif YalvaçHOST
6:58
But then in Stanford University, in 1982, karma which is center for computer research in music and acoustic which is still operating today and john shoning is the uh leader chair of the center when you say
Elaine WalkerGUEST
24:33
Not Heinz Boland, but like, Max Matthews and John Pierce, Dr. Boulanger, they all were trying.
Elaine WalkerGUEST
24:40
John Chowning was involved.
Elaine WalkerGUEST
24:41
They would get groups of people to listen, but they wouldn't have enough listenable stuff.
Elaine WalkerGUEST
24:45
So everyone's like, I don't know.

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