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Machine Head: Raoul Hausmann and the Optophone
- Leonardo
- The MIT Press
- Volume 34, Number 3, June 2001
- pp. 217-220
- Article
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Dadaist Raoul Hausmann, famous for his photomontages, is perhaps less well known as a pioneer of synaesthetic machines designed to transform sound into form and vice versa--not unlike primitive computers, in fact. The author has located the patent for one such invention, artist Peter Keene's realization of which accompanies this historical account.