TIMARA

Gray, considered to be the father of the modern music synthesizer, served as adjunct professor of physics at Oberlin [3] and following his tenure, was granted over 70 patents for his inventions.

[6] The TIMARA department was officially founded in 1967 by composer Olly Wilson as a response to the number of composition students who pursued studies in electronics.

Its current faculty include professors Tom Lopez, Steven Kemper, Eli Stine, Francis Wilson, and Heather Mease, along with technical director Kyle Hartzell.

[8][9] Recent faculty include the engineer John Talbert as well as composers Morton Subotnik, George Lewis, David Lang, Gary Lee Nelson, Per Bloland, Joo Won Park, Lyn Goeringer, Peter Swendsen, and Abby Aresty.

The Alles Machine, the world's first digital additive synthesizer,[11] used 72 computer controlled oscillators whose output was mixed to produce a number of discrete "voices."