Hugh Le Caine

An inventor and composer, Hugh Le Caine spent his career in the shadows. A lab rat, he pioneered many practical concepts in electronic instruments during his decades of work at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). His Electronic Sackbut (1945) is now recognized as the first-ever voltage-controlled synthesizer, the ancestor of the 1970s analog synthesizers. An important actor in the development of musique concrète, he collaborated to the construction of electronic studios for the University of Toronto and McGill University, pioneered many concepts in electronic instru...