Invisible Jukebox: Mark Mothersbaugh
May 2009

Hear Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh in conversation
Mark Mothersbaugh on Brian Eno | 0:13:58 |
Mark Mothersbaugh on Suicide | 0:06:28 |
Mark Mothersbaugh on Raymond Scott | 0:23:08 |
Listen to audio clips from Richard Henderson's Invisible Jukebox interview with Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh. You can read the full transcript here
Note:
During the Raymond Scott segment, Mark Mothersbaugh and Richard
Henderson make several references to Robert Margouleff and Malcolm
Cecil, as well as to something called T.O.N.T.O.. The former were
early ‘70s synth programmers for the likes of Stevie Wonder (they
have a credit on Wonder’s Talking Book LP) They had a band
called Tonto's Expanding Head Band. In that context they used a
unique synth, T.O.N.T.O., an acronym for "The Original New Timbral
Orchestra": the world's first (and still the largest) multitimbral
polyphonic analog synthesizer, designed and constructed by Malcolm
Cecil. T.O.N.T.O. resided in the basement of Mutato Muzika for
several years, next to Raymond Scott’s Electronium (the
self-generating synth of Scott’s own invention, first funded by
Berry Gordy of Motown), and many other vintage bits of electronic
gear.
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