︎HISTORY II
SILHOUETTE - OPTICAL SOUNDTRACK SYNTHESIZER eins
Johannes Pit Przygodda
The wish to form and play optical soundtrack waveforms within a musical instrument arose in the early 1990s, when musician and inventor Johannes Pit Przygodda studied experimental film at the artschool, Hamburg, Germany. He did several experiments with the optical soundtrack (︎︎︎ "Gardine sing sing") and became addicted to it.
But for years and years he saw no technical possibility. 20 years later first ideas for a software solution were born.
- From the first concrete software attempts in 2014
- an appearance at Superbooth 2016 ("VIDEOVOX")
- to a "SILHOUETTE" hardware prototype #1, 2017 (see demo-video)
- and to follower model (prototype #2 and #3, Superbooth 2019)
- J.P.Przygodda has utilized the corona gap in 2020/21
to re-think and intensify the concept and to build the " SILHOUETTE eins" prototype 1.
- 2022: start of production and sale of the first short run.
- 2023: further production.
︎︎︎ HISTORY III
︎︎︎ HISTORY I
︎︎︎ INSPIRATION/ THANKS