John Talbert began working at Oberlin during the summer of 1978 when the Ohio Scientific Instruments microcomputer was brand new. John has been instrumental in helping the TIMARA Department embrace every technological development since then: from reel-to-reel tape to MIDI and the DX7; from simple circuit design to Arduino programming and iOS apps; and everything in between. “That’s what was so cool about the job,” he says. “Every year it was a new job. Every year things changed.”

Erich Burnett interviewed John recently, you can read more here.

You can also learn more about John’s various projects on his personal site.

The photo above shows John in his studio circa 1989.