TECnology Hall of Fame award presented to Ray Kurzweil for Kurzweil 250 Synthesizer
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The TECnology Hall of Fame 2008 award was presented to Ray Kurzweil as the inventor of the Kurzweil 250 synthesizer, which was inducted into MIX magazine’s TECnology Hall of Fame 2008 at the 2008 Audio Engineering Society conference in San Francisco on October 4. It joined the list of 85 innovations so honored, going back to the Edison cylinder in 1877. 
Amy Kurzweil accepts award from MIX Executive Editor George Petersen The award was presented by George Petersen, Director of the TECnology Hall of Fame and Executive Editor of Mix magazine, and accepted by Kurzweil’s daughter, Amy Kurzweil. “Music is the only cultural expression common to every human society that we are aware of,” said Kurzweil in prepared remarks read by Amy. “Musical expression is the communication of human emotion and insight through sound and has always used the most advanced technologies available, from the drums of ancient times, the cabinet-making crafts of the eighteenth century, the mechanical linkages of the nineteenth century, the analog electronics of the mid twentieth century to the digital technology of the last couple of decades. It has been very gratifying to have played a role in helping to continue this ongoing advance of our musical tools. I have admired the AES for decades and greatly appreciate this recognition.” “After inventing a number of firsts–text-to-speech synthesis, the CCD flatbed scanner, Omni-Font optical character recognition and a print-to-speech reading machine for the blind–Ray Kurzweil met Stevie Wonder, who encouraged him to apply computer control to acoustical instruments,” Petersen remarked. “As a result, he founded Kurzweil Music Systems in 1982 with Wonder serving as its musical advisor. 
“A year later–almost 25 years ago to this day–visitors crammed into a packed demo suite on the fifth floor of the New York Hilton Hotel during the annual Audio Engineering Society convention and marveled at the Kurzweil 250. The first ROM-based sampling keyboard to successfully reproduce the full complexity of acoustic instruments, the 250 offered natural-sounding pianos, thick drums, lush strings, choirs and more and its 88-note, velocity-sensitive wooden keyboard provided a piano-like playing experience. “The Kurzweil 250 weighed 95 pounds and cost almost $16,000, but the 250 sounded great and was popular with recording studios and top performers, and Kurzweil followed it with a long series of innovative—and more affordable—products. This year we are pleased and honored to present this award to Ray Kurzweil.” MIX magazine is the world’s leading publication for professionals in the recording, sound and music production industries. Introduced in 1983, the Kurzweil 250 is considered to be the first electronic musical instrument to successfully emulate the complex sound response of a grand piano and virtually all other orchestral instruments. (Source: )
- TECnology Hall of Fame award presented to Ray Kurzweil for Kurzweil 250 Synthesizer
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