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RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer
Photograph, 1959
Columbia University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
A five-year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation in 1959 brought together the resources of Princeton University and Columbia, and the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center took up residence in Prentis Hall, on West 125th Street. A second landmark acquisition was the RCA Mark II Sound Synthesizer, installed in its own studio in Prentis, where it still lives.
Milton Babbitt, Peter Mauzey, and Vladimir Ussachevsky with the RCA Mark II Synthesizer
Photograph, 1959
Columbia University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Ussachevsky and Delegation of Russian Composers
Photograph, 1959
Columbia University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Columbia received a delegation of Russian composers, under the sponsorship of the Soviet Composers' Union, during their visit to the United States in September, 1959. At the top of their list was a visit to the Electronic Music Center.