The Raymond Scott Electronium concept reimagined for the Nord G2 Synthesizer

Our reimagined virtual version of the Raymond Scott Electronium® is a patch for the Nord G2 synthesizer. It was created by Jack Hertz, longtime G2 user and enthusiast, as a means to analyze, study, and learn from a modern model of the legendary Electronium. With no one living who truly understands the instrument and very little documentation available, the goal of this project is to reverse engineer the vast array of Electronium functions by modeling and testing the concepts presented by the original hardware interface itself. The G2ronium patch as created specifically for the Nord Modular G2 synthesizer, presents an internal model of the Electronium in modular format to show the many core functions and relationships between musical lines are created, played and mixed together within the system. This allows us to see and hear what the Electronium may have been capable of and even collaborate with this virtual version ourselves, to, in Raymond Scott’s words, have a machine that “simultaneously composes and performs music.”