Cut Pathways Season 3!

Learn about the history of University of Pittsburgh’s Electronic Music Studio

Cut Pathways, a podcast developed by the Oral History Program at Carnegie Mellon University, debuts four new episodes from their third season, “Steel City Outsiders and the Institutional Avant-garde.”

Check out the latest episode about the history of University of Pittsburgh’s Electronic Music Studio here:

“The Buchla synthesizer experienced a cultural reemergence through new records from composers Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani, but for Pittsburgh, the Buchla first arrived in 1969 when composer Morton Subotnick founded the University of Pittsburgh’s Electronic Music Studio. This episode charts the studio’s history from analog to digital. We hear stories about complications with CBS Musical Instruments, a lost George Romero film, and computers that could play synthesizers. This is the story of the University of Pittsburgh’s Electronic Music Studio.”

Listen to all episodes here: https://cutpathways.podbean.com/ or watch the season three trailer.