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| | Max Mathews - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
 | | A telecommunications engineer and amateur violinist working in Bell Telephone Laboratories' acoustic and behavioral reseach department during the mid-'50s, Mathews was originally assigned to explore the digital transmission and recording of speech patterns, a process he realized could be easily adapted to the composition and playback of music as well. |
 | | Mathews next teamed with inventor Robert Boie to develop the Radio Baton, a hyperinstrument allowing the user to conduct a computer orchestra with a simple wave of the wand over an electromagnetic field. |
 | | Mathews also pioneered another computer music program called Conductor; another interactive real-time graphic multimedia program was dubbed "MAX" in his honor. |
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