Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO & Jeff Winner with Raymond Scott's Motown Electronium

Bonus scene from full documentary (ScottDoc.com) - Transcript:
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH: So sick! I mean, there are temporary touch-buttons called "Doowah!" What does that mean?!
JEFF WINNER: It was made for Motown, so we figure he was trying to relate to their vocabulary.
MM: That's great. I don't know - but it really makes you wanna hear this thing. Looks like this was some sort of a - like that was the sequencer part of it. Decay, staccato, envelopes, and chords, but there's just such a mixture of things...
STAN WARNOW: You don't really know that much about what each one of these things did? It's a mystery to all of us, I think.
MM: It's all speculation until you fire it up. Maybe Mister Entenmann... is that his name? He would probably be able to come here and say, 'Here's what they did, and I'll tell you why he bought red Krylon spray paint for this...'
SW: Yeah, he would.
JW: Raymond told this guy what he wanted, and he executed it, on this very model.
MM: That's amazing.
SW: Mitzi said he worked on it from the very beginning, until it was shipped out to Motown.
MM: They made a beautiful cabinet for it. The cabinet's kinda interesting because it's the most retro part of it, in a way.
JW: Yeah.
MM: It looks like an old telephone communications station or something.
JW: An airplane.
SW: My dad valued all that stuff, and he had a complete wood-working shop, when he had that big place...
MM: When he was really going.
JW: He seemed to like this shape, because even his big rooms full of equipment, when it filled his room, was also this same kind of angle.
MM: Yeah, like a cockpit. You're sitting right there and you're like...
JW (to MM): Here's an earlier version, and here's that digital thing you were talking about last night. But he completely rebuilt it.
MM: Look at that room, that's amazing.
JW: See these angles?
MM: That's cool! (laughs)
JW: It used to be whole walls-full, then he shrunk it down, more and more.
MM: (laughs) This one almost fit on the console of your car, you could drive your Honda around town with a...
JW: Do you happen to remember if this is all removable? Does this stuff come off? Is this the base? You don't know? Is there 'guts' in there, or is that mostly empty?
MM: Oh no, there's stuff in there. Let me see... It's pushed up against the wall right now, so we can't... but there is some things inside it.
SW: That's what I was wondering.
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Video shot by Stan Warnow; bonus scene from DVD (ScottDoc.com)

[@angelometz]

Thanks for posting! Thanks a lot!

[@lotusbandicoot]

As a big fan of both Raymond and Mark, I remember how much I was nerding out when I found this video a few years ago.

[@TheLazerTank]

Can somebody please fix it?

[@crescentzebra]

raymond scott and devo are killer

[@teeeeeveeeee314]

Raymond was a genius! We need to restore it so that he can be properly honored! I think Mark has a few ideas (always will be a DEVO fan), if they do restore it, it will be a testimony that he and everyone in the Archives will make for the future!

[@TheEpinema]

Would anyone be able to tell me the title of the book he has in his hands? I'd be keen to have a look a read :-)

[@RaymondScottArchives]

I'm holding a 144-page book & 2-CD set that we released in the year 2000 titled "MANHATTAN RESEARCH INC." You can order from Amazon.com, & elsewhere.

[@neowavemusic]

This Electronium today is working?

[@RaymondScottArchives]

No, but a restoration is being attempted.

[@neowavemusic]

Thank you for answer! (3 years after) good luck.

[@RaymondScottArchives]

Vimeo alternalink: vimeo-dot-com/42420175