Rudiger Meyer's Page

Sympathetic Vibrations. I remember a cello lesson I had as a child in which I was particularly fascinated with how a string on the cello would vibrate seemingly all by itself, when in tune with the same note played on another cello. Later I found out that there was a term for this acoustic phenomenon - sympathetic vibration. Space & Electronics. At the time I was also more interested in building electronic oscillators than practising my cello scales. I was particularly fascinated with the way in which different objects in the room could be made to vibrate as I tuned the oscillator to different frequencies. Records & Radio. My parents owned a Deutsche Gramophone recording of Beethoven’s fifth piano concerto which I loved to listen to while constructing my electronic circuits. Later I was given an old radio by an aunt and the whole world of popular music flowed in through its loudspeaker and shook up my room. I gave up the dream of building my own synthesizer, bought one and started making music with it...