PROGRAM DETAILS

Technomusia is a program of the Science, Technology and Society B.S. Program at Morrisville State College, State University of New York (SUNY) designed to bring greater awareness to the public of the intersections between high technology and cultural expressions through music.

Trevor Pinch is Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. He works mainly in the fields of sociology of science, sociology of technology, sociology of economics, and sound studies. Recent books include Dr Golem: How To Think About Medicine (with Harry Collins, Chicago University Press, 2005) and Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies (edited with Richard Swedberg, MIT Press, 2008). He is the editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies (with Karin Bijsterveld, Oxford University Press, 2011). He is a member of The Electric Golem, an experimental synthesizer duo, also featuring Ithaca-area artist James Spitznagel. They have recently released a CD on Ricochet Records (Berlin) and have a second release on the way. Pinch has built his own analog synthesizer and also plays a 1970s-era Moog synthesizer with the project. He co-authored, with Frank Trocco, Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer (Harvard University Press, 2002).

Roy “Futureman” Wooten is a five-time Grammy Award-winning, American musician. Internationally known as the inventor of the Drumitar and percussionist/founding member of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, he has reached unprecedented heights within the possibilities of percussion and composition. Whether playing traditional drums with a jazz combo, conducting his own symphony, or performing with the Flecktones, Futureman continues to reinvent and fascinate audiences and peers alike with each recent development in his mysterious world of creation. He is the second eldest of the Wooten Brothers (five brothers known for playing their respective instruments with paralyzing skill). As young children they began playing in the front yard for passers by and eventually went on to join the Arista Records roster and open for such acts as WAR, Curtis Mayfield, the Temptations, and Stephanie Mills. Futureman is the drummer of the bunch, but his insatiable thirst for innovation, technology, and exploration eventually resulted in the advent of the Drumitar, an instrument of his own invention which incorporates MIDI, trigger pads, and drum samples.

OTHER LINKS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND MUSIC

SYMPHONY OF SCIENCE :: WE ARE ALL CONNECTED	9TH WONDER :: THE ART OF SAMPLING

DUB FX :: MADE	RICO LOOP :: AFRICA

COMPUTER ANIMATION and MIDI MUSIC

THE MOOG SYNTHESIZER :: AL SCHNIER from MOE	BBC News Report on the MOOG (1969)
SCIENCE DAILY Report on discovery of a Universal Property of Music	Carl Zimmer (Discover Magazine columnist) on Music and the Brain