{"id":1418,"date":"2025-05-28T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewlevine.info\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2025-05-28T17:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T15:34:37","slug":"the-electronic-music-studios-at-the-university-of-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewlevine.info\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"The Experimental Music Studios at the University of “I”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Early morning in Champaign, IL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In November 2024 I traveled from Hamburg to Chicago, then to Champaign, IL to accompany my Continuum Fingerboard to its maker’s lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Biking through the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\u2013on a racing bike of Lippold Haken’s\u2013I came across expansive lawns, historical buildings,…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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…and chanced upon the School of Music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some research taught me that this building was the home of the renown Experimental Music Studios<\/a> and I immediately contacted Maxwell Logan Miller, the head of the EMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully Max got back to me on very short notice and arranged to meet up and give me a tour of the facilities, founded in 1958 by composer Lejaren Hiller, Jr<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The EMS lounge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Onward into geek central \ud83e\udd13 Here is a vintage Roland Studio System 100M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next up a large Buchla system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early MIDI…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And an EML-200 mystery box I had never even heard about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Most of the acoustically treated rooms are equipped with a high end stereo or surround monitoring system (one stereo, several 5.1 and one 8.1) and one had a speakerdome for immersive content, Ambisonics and 3D-audio projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Occupying the sweet spot \ud83e\udd13<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I even got the chance to meet the EMS’s director Eli Fieldsteel for an informal chat. Looking forward to a return and the possibility of doing a lecture in this amazing space \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In November 2024 I traveled from Hamburg to Chicago, then to Champaign, IL to accompany my Continuum Fingerboard to its maker’s lab. Biking through the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign\u2013on a racing bike of Lippold Haken’s\u2013I came across expansive lawns, historical buildings,… …and chanced upon the School of Music. Some research taught me that … <\/p>\n

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