Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear electronic chamber music by Stockhausen on “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center”.  At 8:00 you’ll hear Fritz Kreisler’s “A minor String Quartet” on the “Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival”.

Computer synthesizers have likely become a staple of your daily life – Siri, digital music, YouTube and more – but do you know where they come from? One of the earliest synthesizer structures was invented in the University of Illinois’ Experimental Music Lab in the early 1960s as part of one of the first computer instruments – The Harmonic Tone Generator.