The Bucky Award nominations continue, and it’s time for a new category: The Hugh Le Caine Electronic Sackbut Award! Yes, yes, it’s a fancy way of saying “Best Electronic Song,” but it is also important to bring to light the Canadian electronic music pioneer Hugh Le Caine.
“Tell me more about Hugh Le Caine? And what is a Sackbut?” you may ask. Well here you go. According to his biography, as a young man Hugh Le Caine “imagined "beautiful sounds" that he believed could be realized through new electronic inventions.” After years of scientific study and accomplishments (he worked on the first radar systems and in atomic physics for the National Research Council,) his passion for electronic music and sound generation lead him to create a personal studio in 1945. This is where he designed the first voltage controlled synthesizer, the Electronic Sackbut.
Today we honour this eccentric Canadian scientist, composer and inventor by naming our first Electronic Music category after him and his influential instrument the Electronic Sackbut.
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