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Player Piano

Jun 27, 2023

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Banking with Capital One: No Fees or Minimums

00:54

Raymond Scott: Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1900s

01:58

Barry Gordy's Motown: The Assembly Line Approach to Music

01:32

Introduction

2min

The Mystery of Raymond Scott

2min

Chuzid's Secret Hidden Archive

2min

The History of the Electronium

2min

The Last Archive: Raymond Scott

2min

The Songwriting Machine

2min

The Story of the Player Piano

3min

The Story of Raymond Scott

2min

The Importance of a Name

2min

10.

The Rise of Raymond Scott

2min

11.

The Importance of Balance in Life

2min

12.

The Life and Times of Raymond Scott

2min

13.

The Life and Times of Dorothy Collins

2min

14.

Dorothy Collins and Scott's Marriage

2min

15.

The Life and Times of Raymond Scott

2min

16.

The Future of Music

2min

17.

The Electronium

2min

18.

Raymond Scott and the Machine Threat

2min

19.

The Story of Raymond Scott

2min

20.

The Evolution of the Electronic Brain

2min

21.

Barry Gordy's Idea for a Company Called Motown

3min

22.

Gordy Scott's Electronium Hit Maker

2min

23.

Scott Gordy's Player Piano

2min

24.

The Electronium

2min

25.

The Limits of Human Creativity

2min

26.

The Story of Raymond Scott

2min

27.

The Life and Times of Scott Scott

4min

This week we're featuring an episode of The Last Archive

The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of archives. Manuscripts, photographs, letters and diaries, government documents. Facebook posts, Youtube videos, DVDs. Oral histories. This stuff is known as the “historical record,” but of course it’s not a record, in the sense of an audio recording: It’s everything.

On this episode of The Last Archive, the story of the composer Raymond Scott’s lifelong quest to build an automatic songwriting machine, and what it means for our own AI-addled, ChatGPT world.

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99% Invisible

Player Piano

Banking with Capital One: No Fees or Minimums

Raymond Scott: Growing up in Brooklyn in the 1900s

Barry Gordy's Motown: The Assembly Line Approach to Music

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