20 Jul
2016
20 Jul
'16
7:54 a.m.
On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, ethan at 757.org wrote:
I live in Virginia but go to a number of events every
year. I dabble
with music a little, have some synths and midi hardware (and of course
an Atari ST setup, and a luggable Pentium 200 with a SB/GUS and Voyetra
Sequencer!) Also dabble a little with saxophones but it's been a while!
I knew it! Piano, bass, violin, and guitar, here. I play them all badly
but guitar a little less badly. I've been an amateur for about 10 years
and I've been taking guitar lessons for about three years, now.
Sax, eh? Cool. I've never tried a reed-based instrument.
You have all the cool sound gear you need if you have an ST and a machine
with a GUS! Well.... maybe an Amiga with Octamed or Protracker, but Scream
Tracker and Impulse Tracker also rocks fairly hard with a GUS, so never
mind. :-)
As you can tell, I like trackers. I wrote a few MOD/IT/S3M files "back in
the day".
Hmm interesting!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28company%29 No
mention of freemont street but their current market is digital signage.
That would have been one of the earliest LED video screens ever!
Ah... I finally found some mention of it. Check this out:
"The light and sound spectacular runs on a master show controller and
three sub-systems. The controller runs Stage Manager 3000 software on an
Amiga computer originally installed when the show began in 1995. Murphy
said the master controller sends commands to the video-display controller,
light console and digitally automated audio system. The audio system, a
recently upgraded LCS Matrix 3 system, distributes 550,000W of sound
through 220 remote amplifiers located throughout the outdoor mall."
From:
http://www.signweb.com/content/night-lights
I'm sure you know the thing about Garth/Dana
Carvey? Him mentioning the
Unix book in Waynes World was a nod to his brother, his brother founded
NewTek the company behind the Amiga video toaster and the current NewTek
Tricaster stuff?
I did know some of that story, but not all. That's really cool.
Also, you can put together your own
freemont-street-living-room at not
totally insane prices now. I put together this LED video screen [...]
Whoa, very neat. When I was in college I used to run shows out of an old
machine shop in an industrial part of town. It started as just a practice
place. However, I knew a bunch of artists. They weren't just other college
kids but artists who are pretty well known in the area and responsible for
large public works etc... They all had daughters, you see... Anyhow, they
talked me into letting them setup some art "openings" at this same little
dinky venue I had going. One of them was an electrical engineering student
who would come up from Texas Tech and cover the place with LED matrices
that he had built. It was really impressive tech for the 1990s. He could
do things like color cycling, and display static frames, but not
animation. It always brought in lots of folks (200-800 per show usually)
who were impressed by our tiny art shows with the "Light Room" display.
People gave canned food or $$$ to get in and we raised a bit of food and
money for charity that way, too.
-Swift