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Through these expe riments, Ussachevsky and Luening soon began working together and, despite the limited resources available to them through their institution, garnered a fair amount of inter e st from the broader American music world.

From the start, the composers were skeptical of the dangers of cheap commercialization, and sought to utilize newly developed technologies-first in tape and then through computers-to control parameters of expression according to their aesthetic, pragmatic, and philosophical goals.

What is commonly left out of the historiographies of the EMC, is the impact that external support had on the creation of new works of art in this technologically-focused academic institution.

Through research on the development and placement of the RCA Mark-II at the EMC conducted at the Hagley Library, along with materials from the Rockefeller Foundation, Columbia University, and Princeton University, I show that during the process of garnering support for the EMC, artistic projects were conformed to, or shaped by supporters interests.

These alterations thus represent an encroachment of economic pressures on the artistic expression possible in nascent technologically focused settings and pose further questions on the artistic integrity espoused as pre-eminent in the modernist mindset-especially for the key players, Ussachevsky and Babbitt.

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From the start, the composers were skeptical of the dangers of cheap commerc ia lization, and sought to utilize newly developed technologies first in tape and then through computers to control parameters of exp ression according to their aesthetic, pragmatic, and philosophical goals.

What is commonly left out of the histori ographies o f the EMC, is the impact that external support ha d on the creation of new works of art in this technologically - focused academic institution.

Through research on the development and placement of the RCA Mark - II at the EMC conducted at the Hagley Libra ry, al ong wit h materi als from the Rockefeller Foundation, Columbia University, and Princeton University, I show that during the process of garnering support for the EMC, artistic projects were conf ormed to, or shaped by supporters interests.

These alterations t hu s represent an encroachment of ec onomic pressures on the artistic expression possible in nascent technologically focused settings and p ose further questions on the artistic integrity espoused as pre - eminent in the modernist mindset especially for the key p layers, Ussachevsky and Babbitt.

INTRODUCTION This paper will explore the impact of institutional support on artist ic research and c reation throug h the lens of the Columbia - Princeton Electronic Music Center, the many composers that worked there, and the R adio Corporation of Americas Mark - II sound synthesizer.

Housed in Columbias Prentis Hall and the base ment of the McMillan Theater, it was one of the first electronic music studio s of its kind in the United States and hosted numerous composers of significance throughout the twentieth ce nt ury for both short visitations and extended stays of compositional experimentation and practice.

The work being done at the EMC resulted in multiple Guggenheim Fellowships and Pulitzer Prizes, as well as steps towards the deve lopment of key technologies used in consumer products, such as Robert Moogs sy nth es ize rs.

Further, t he RCA Mark - II, which was built by the Radio Corporatio n of America (RCA), at their Princeton Labs and housed at Prentis Hall starting in the middle of 1959, was significant not for being the first sound synthesizer, but for its flexibil it y and capabilities.

The Ma rk - II w as the first machine in which a sound could be programmed using binary code on rolls of punched paper, and which would then automate the generation of sounds by the synthesizer.

It should be noted, though, that even as th is paper focuses much of its attention on the RCA Mark - II, the vast majority of the music produced at the EMC during this time period was tape music.

With th e undeniable influence of the EM C and the technological i mpact of the RCA Mark - II for the wider fie ld of electronic music in mind, this paper will delve into the history of the early EMC and lay out the institutional and structural impediments the composers faced in their endeavor to est ablish an electronic music studio including the tepid support offer ed by Columbias Music Department and Princeton s administration for the shared project, the Rockefeller Foundation grants which funded the establishment of the Center, and the interests be hi nd RCA s construction a nd loaning of the RCA Mark - II.

The archiva l research conducted here will look towards the real structural impacts on the compositional practice of those working at the EMC, and will also consider how these pressures can arise not j ust from the composers collaborations with single institutions but f rom competing interests between the partner organizations.

The resultant practical co ncerns from these components, like access to space or equipment, or particularly the quality of equipm ent can affect what is expressively feasible to compose.

By doing so, I also aim to fill out gaps in the current state of the history on the founding of the EMC, as well as correct assumptions that may have arisen from the lack of access to critical docume nts.

Copyright: 2018 Er ic Lemmon This i s an open - acc ess article dis - tributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestric ted use, distribu- tion, and reproduction in an y medium, provid ed the origin al author and source are credited.

From the outset, each composer s work was largely pre dicated upon his own entrepreneurial spirit.

Us sa chevsky arrived at Columbia as a post - doctor al student under Lue ning after obtaining his Ph.D.

His appointment at Columbia came w ith responsibilities to record music departme nt concerts, where he was first able to utilize equipment to experiment with sounds on the tape format 1, 2.

At the beginning, Ussachevsky utilized an Ampex Model 400 tape rec order to con duct sonic experiment s with the help of Peter Mauzey, the staff m e mber who eventually became the head engineer for the EMC 1, 2.