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Electronic Music Studios

Electronic Music Studios (EMS) is a synthesizer company formed in Putney, London in 1969 by Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary and David Cockerell. It is now based in Ladock, Cornwall.

Founders[edit]

The founding partners had wide experience in both electronics and music. Cockerell, who was EMS' main equipment designer in its early years, was an electronics engineer and computer programmer. In the mid-1960s Zinovieff had formed the electronic music group Unit Delta Plus with Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Cary was a noted composer and a pioneer in electronic music—he was one of the first people in the UK to work in the musique concrete field and built one of the country's first electronic music studios; he also worked widely in film and TV, composing scores for numerous Ealing Studios and Hammer Films productions, and he is well known for his work on the BBC's Doctor Who, notably on the classic serial The Daleks.

1969 -

EMS VCS 3

1971 -

EMS Synthi A

1971 -

EMS Synthi AK

1971 -

EMS Synthi 100

1971 - (digital sequencer) [15]

EMS Synthi Sequencer 256

1972 -

EMS Synthi AKS

1973 - (multi-effect) [16]

EMS Synthi Hi-Fli

1974 - (video synthesizer, formerly Spectre) [17][18]

EMS Spectron

1975 - EMS Synthi E

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1976 - [20]

EMS Vocoder 5000

1977 - [21]

EMS Vocoder 2000

1978 - (polyphonic synthesizer) [22]

EMS PolySynthi

Hinton, Graham (27 December 2002). . Cornwall: Electronic Music Studios. Archived from the original on 21 May 2013.
Inside story about the beginnings of EMS, studios, non-commercial equipment, people and users.

"EMS: The Inside Story"

Hinton, Graham (17 June 2001). . Cornwall: Electronic Music Studios. Archived from the original on 31 October 2013.

"A Guide to the EMS Product Range - 1969 to 1979"

. musicainformatica.org / musicainformatica.it. 16 May 2014. figure 2 - A summary that shows the position of the two PDP computers within the MUSYS system, and all the devices connected to them. (figure2)

"MUSYS"

Grogono, Peter (1973). "MUSYS: Software for an electronic music studio". Software: Practice and Experience. 3 (4): 369–383. :10.1002/spe.4380030410. S2CID 206507040.

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Cockerell, David (1 October 2013). . These Hopeful Machines. Radio New Zealand. [Q] ...Chronometer [3], as I understand it, the sounds of the clock mechanisms and all the rest of it were effectively sampled by an ADC, stored and manipulated by the computer and then spat out again. What was the breakthrough ... [A] Peter kept buying the latest computers that came out and of course the memory increased. Then I built him a hard disc recorder so that one could store some of the sounds on this hard disc. ... as a corner of radio program Sound Lounge

"Interview - David Cockerell"

Trevor Pinch; Frank Trocco (2004). . Harvard University Press, 2004, 368pp. ISBN 0-674-01617-3. (Chapter 14 details EMS.)

Analog Days

. Sound on Sound (November 2000).

"All About EMS: Part 1"

. Sound on Sound (December 2000). Archived from the original on 8 September 2011.

"All About EMS: Part 2"

Mark Vail (2000). Vintage Synthesizers (2nd ed.). Backbeat Books, 2000, 339pp.  978-0-87930-603-8. (Pages 110-114 British Modular Systems).

ISBN

Peter Forrest (1998). The A-Z of Analogue Synthesisers. Vol. Part One A-M (revised 2nd ed.). Susurreal, Oct 1998, 320pp.  0-9524377-2-4. (Pages 111-126 EMS).

ISBN

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"Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd"

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"EMS Rehberg"

. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014.

"info on EMS VCS3/AKS etc"

Dr. Peter Zinovieff. . Lecture for the Red Bull Music Academy, London 2010.

"7 Deadly Synths"

NAMM Oral History Library (2008)

David Cockerell Interview