Harald Bode (1909 - 1987), Page from notebook (detail), December 7, 1962; ink on paper; Courtesy of Harald Bode Archive
Harald Bode: Tone Color - Known and Unknown Sounds
On View Friday, October 21, 2011–Sunday, April 29, 2012
Harald Bode (1909-1987) was a German engineer and pioneering designer of electronic musical instruments and audio tools. The tools that he created altered the sounds that we hear every day. Through leading innovations that modulate the electronic processing of sound, he created sounds that never existed previously. We are better able to understand the auditory environment that surrounds us by this rare look at his development methods and the equipment he used and by hearing the sounds he generated.