A physicist thinks out of the box
He built one of the largest modular synthesizers in the world: Joe Paradiso is Professor at the MIT Media Lab in Media Arts and Sciences, and he also plays an important role in the international scene of electronic music. Much of what Joe Paradiso does today started in the 1980ies as a postdoc in the department of physics at ETH Zurich.
ETH Zürich Hönggerberg – Parking garage with the right tone (Photo: ETH Zurich/D-PHYS Regina Moser)
While he was researching in Zurich in the daytime, he created sounds and started to build a synthesizer at night. One of his favourite places to record audio material was the parking garage at the ETH Campus Hönggerberg.
In the ETH-Podcast Episode 16, he explains how his fascination for that place grew, and why it is essential for scientists like him to think out of the box.