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Figure 7.3.
A
, the musicolour machine;
B
, its power supply; and
C
, a still photo-
graph of a light show. source: g. Pask, “a comment, a case history and a Plan,” in
J. reichardt (ed.),
Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas
(greenwich, ct: New york graphics
society, 1971), 82, fig. 28.
He built the original machine in his bedroom, on a large, old dining table,
which took up most of the room. The process took him several years, during
which he took his Tripos examinations and graduated from Cambridge. . . .
Gordon had sincerely wanted to be a doctor, like Gar, but once he had begun
to work on his Musicolour machine, medicine took second place.” Musicol-
our was a device that used the sound of a musical performance to control a
