11 Jul
2023
11 Jul
'23
1:13 p.m.
On Jul 11, 2023, at 3:06 PM, Marc Howard via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Try 1970.
https://www.vintagecomputermusic.com/notran_system.php
I worked in the same (computer graphics) lab with Hal. He wrote the
seminal book on microprocessor generated music and later worked at Kurzweil.
That reminds me of a book I read in 1974 about synthesizer generated music (not sure if it
involved computers). It had an audio record, LP type, in the back, with a number of
pieces. One of them I played on the university radio station, it was an "eight tone
canon", in other words a canon on a scale of 8 equal intervals for the octave. That
sounds very strange indeed because the single step in that scale doesn't match any in
the usual scales we're familiar with. I'd like to find a copy of that; it would
be neat to transcribe that piece for another synthesizer. The GSW I mentioned could
easily handle that.
paul