27 Dec
2006
27 Dec
'06
12:25 p.m.
"William Donzelli" wrote:
I am currently working on a project involving music
made with
computers before MIDI. Some aspects and examples might be the old
mainframes playing tunes on band printers, minicomputers making tunes
with RFI, microcomputers controlling analog synthesizers, and so
forth.
Don't forget to include the IBM 1620 + AM Radio.
I remember it playing (nicely) christmas carols. I think the length
of the move (the move which continued until it hit a flag) generated
different tones (it was ages ago, at Carleton College and the NHS).
I remember there were several different music programs.
it put the 1130 line printer music to shame :-) early '70s (and probably
before that)
There was also a music setup for the lisp machines at MIT but I have never
heard any recordings - only seen the software. That would be mid '70s.
-brad