18 Jul 2013

Outtake - EMS’s VCS1

From These Hopeful Machines, 7:50 pm on 18 July 2013
Don Banks's EMS VCS1 symthesiser

Don Banks's EMS VCS1 symthesiser Photo: CC BY Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

Before there was the VCS3, there was the VCS1! The first one was built by EMS at the request of Australian composer Don Banks, who took quite a shine to it...

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Since the original production of this series, James Gardner has written at length about the development of the VCS3 from the Don Banks Music Box (aka VCS-1). Related articles may be found here and here.

Lawrence Casserley's website