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The Last Archive

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week on The Last Archive, the story of the composer Raymond Scott’s lifelong quest to build an automatic songwriting machine, and what it means for our own AI-addled, ChatGPT world.

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0:00.0	Hey last archive listeners, I wanted to let you know that you can hear the entire new
0:14.0	season of the last archive ad-free right now by becoming a Pushkin Plus subscriber.
0:20.6	Find Pushkin Plus on the last archive show page on Apple Podcasts or at pushkin.fm-slash-plus.
0:27.0	Otherwise we'll be releasing the episodes once a week every Thursday here on the ad-supported
0:31.8	feed.
0:32.8	Okay, thanks for listening.
0:42.4	The last archive, a history of truth.
0:49.0	About 30 years ago, a man named Irwin Chusid encountered one of the strangest machines
0:53.6	almost nobody had ever heard of.
1:01.3	Chusid was a DJ for a small community radio station in New Jersey.
1:05.8	A friend of his had put him onto a musician named Raymond Scott, one of the most famous musicians
1:11.2	of the early 20th century, who had somehow been completely lost to history.
1:16.3	These were records that were 25 cents a pop and used record stores back then, and they
1:22.1	didn't even have them in a bin.
1:23.1	They had them under the bins.
1:25.4	Chusid loved Scott's music, and he began to get drawn into the mystery of it all.
1:30.2	Who was this guy?
1:31.6	He was obsessed, but his research kept dead ending.
1:35.7	I went to a library, and went looking through music history books, and there's almost
1:40.2	no mention of Raymond Scott.
1:41.7	He wasn't in the jazz books, he wasn't in the classical books, he wasn't in the pop
1:45.4	books.
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