[#194] SEKRET MACHINE MUSIC, Part 3: Ampex, Musique Concrète, and the Nazi Origins of Hi-Fi Audio (Patreon)

Dimitri and Khalid resume their deep history of the synthesizer and electronic music, starting with some Pynchonian World War Two intrigues including:

Oskar Vierling and his Grosstonorgel (the Nazi “Strength Through Joy” organ), Vierling and the Gehlen Org, venerable NASA bigwig Winston E. Kock and Sigismund von Braun, psychedelic suslord Myron Stolaroff, Harold Lindsay, Walter Sested, and the Ampex/KPFA connection, Major Jack Mullen’s discovery of the Nazi Magnetophon, its transformation into the revolutionary Ampex 200A hi-fi reel-to-reel tape recorder, sus Bing Crosby, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Karlheinz Stockhausen and musique concrète, the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, and White Russian aristocrat/OSS superspy Vladimir Ussachevsky’s deep relationship with the Rockefeller Foundation.