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<\/a>and a hearty Happy Birthday to him! In celebration, Moog Music<\/a> has produced a video interview with this emeritus professor of Hofstra University, where he taught composition and electronic music, as the first of a series titled Giants<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He’s been less often mentioned in the story of the revolution in musical possibilities wrought by physical architecture for generating and processing electronic sound waves than his friend the synth inventor Dr. Robert Moog<\/a>, or West Coast designer Don Buchla<\/a>, or their predecessor Leon Theremin.<\/a> During the mid ’60s burst of electronic music by such visionaries as Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley and Morton Subotnick, Sun Ra, Herbie Hancock and Jimi Hendrix, Deutsch was there, leading an improvising electro-acoustic ensemble at Manhattan’s Town Hall and the Museum of Modern Art sculpture garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Immediately as this text was posted came news of the death of composer, educator and Synclavier developer Jon Appelton at age 83; his electro-acoustic works include Human Music<\/a><\/em> from 1970, a series of interactions with trumpeter Don Cherry. All due respects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Hear Deutsch at 14:18 tell of developing the modular synth for such basics of sound-shaping as control over its attack and decay. He conceived the keyboard interface for triggering sonic events, and personally enfolded evocative social-political content into multi-dimensional narratives of sound organized in time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n