Electronic Music Studios

Electronic Music Studios, Trendeal Vean Barn, Ladock, Truro, Cornwall. TR2 4NW. England. Tel: Int + 44 (0)1726 883265 Fax: Int + 44 (0)1726 883283 Email:ems.synthesisers@gmail.com Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd. (usually abbreviated to EMS) is a synthesizer company formed in 1969 by Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary and David Cockerell. The partners had wide experience in both electronics and music. Cockerell, who was EMS' main equipment designer in its early years, was a gifted electronics engineer and computer programmer. In the mid-1960s Zinovieff (who originally qualified as a geologist) had formed the pioneering electronic music group Unit Delta Plus with Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Cary was a noted composer and a pioneer in electronic music—he was one of the first people in the UK to work in the musique concrete field and built one of the country's first electronic music studios; he also worked widely in film and TV, composing scores for numerous Ealing Studios and Hammer Films productions, and is he well known for his work on the BBC's Doctor Who, notably on the classic serial The Daleks. 1969 - EMS VCS 3 1971 - EMS Synthi A 1971 - EMS Synthi AK 1971 - EMS Synthi 100 1971 - EMS Synthi Sequencer 256 (digital sequencer) 1972 - EMS Synthi AKS 1973 - EMS Synthi Hi-Fli (multi-effect type guitar synthesizer) 1974 - EMS Spectron (video synthesizer) 1975 - EMS Synthi E 1976 - EMS Vocoder 5000 1977 - EMS Vocoder 2000 1978 - EMS PolySynthi (polyphonic synthesizer)