Oramics to electronica

WHEN YOU FIRST see the Oramics machine, you can??t work out what it´s for, let alone how it works. It´s an old wooden cupboard hung about with so many tubes, wires and strips of 35mm film, it could be anything from a medical scanner to a detector listening hopefully for a signal from ET. With no keyboard, no strings and no mouthpiece, you wouldn??t guess initially that this machine represented a key moment in the history of electronic music.