On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Paul Koning <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Interesting. From around 1975 or so, and worth learning about is the > music synthesizer developed on the PLATO system at the University of > Illinois by Sherwin Gooch. The hardware is described in great detail > (including full schematics) in US Patent 4,206,675. The software includes > a music code compiler, using a code somewhat like the one you referenced > but different in details. I don't know if one borred from the other or if > they are independent inventions. (Sherwin might remember.) > > A few years later PLATO added a 16 channel waveform synthesis device, > controlled by the microprocessor in the terminals. It had a similar music > code, plus support for a piano keyboard (with key velocity sensing) for > music input with real time display of the score, as well as score > printing. Not long after, Lippold Haken created a keyboard that's > continuous rather than discrete (think of a keyboard like the fingerboard > of a violin); a successor of that is still sold today. > I'd be very interested in any sound samples, if anyone has any...I guess that's perhaps unlikely. And on that note (heh), are there any other computer music albums out there? I know of the First Philadelphia Computer Music Festival, the two Unplayed by Human Hands, and it looks like the University of Melbourne had an electronic music album too. There's a 45 entitled Computer Composites that featured several IBM systems, I'm finding it rather difficult to find LPs that are assuredly produced by a digital computer versus by other electronic means, like early synthesizers, etc. Thanks, Al, for the scan upload! I've enjoyed reading that. Kyle
