I remember when you did this and thinking that it would have been such a cool thing to have been involved in. People tend to look at you funny when you mention "digital music" and 1976 in the same sentence. Glad that you posted this!
Wow ... of the probably hundreds that I typed in ... I remember this especially (along with the 6th, frosty the snowman, jesus christ superstar, and ..) because the low notes made my electrostatic speakers vibrate the metal covering because several of the wood screws holding it on were stripped (factory).
There are a lot of errors in the Bach score.... Nice that You attempted/ and helped to do something "new" in 1976,... but really there were many predecessors apparently mostly working in isolation....Many people had already been doing computer music for about 8-10 years, Charles Dodge and Joseph Olive, had appeared on a TV series called the 21st Century, sometime around 1966-7 , doing computer music, and I saw them at the "Kitchen" (the first video/electronic Arts gallery (Broome St. NYC, circa 1972). Woody & Steina Vasulka 'were involved in it's creation. Woody created some of the first digital / video/ specific synthesis , using his own modified Altair 2000, computer, the one with plans published in Popular Electronics, around 1973-6, including live frame capture of video 1974-5?. I and several others were involved in the Art's and Engineering program EAT (Bell labs and IBM ?) promoting computers as a part of electronic arts medium, in this period 1974-1976.
I looked at the notes last month. Need more "voices" to play as written by Bach. Which notes to leave out (when too many playing at once) -- for the equipment making the noise -- it sounded pretty good. The background noise -- wow -- it's a wonder we heard anything. The 1604 played single tones from a speaker connected to a B register. Heard it ... 1970 to 1973 when it was shut down for the 6400, then cyber 73 and 6500. The IBM 1401 played via card reader, punch card maker, printer, disk drives ... whipping that print chain around and tossing paper everywhere ... :) [1969]
I remember when you did this and thinking that it would have been such a cool thing to have been involved in. People tend to look at you funny when you mention "digital music" and 1976 in the same sentence. Glad that you posted this!
A little bit of John's work survives in the conserved archive of FSU PLATO. I just read his goodbye in NOTES two days ago.
Thirty years ago.... Life goes on....HAHAHA;'
I think you are onto something here. This sounds interesting...
Wow ... of the probably hundreds that I typed in ... I remember this especially (along with the 6th, frosty the snowman, jesus christ superstar, and ..) because the low notes made my electrostatic speakers vibrate the metal covering because several of the wood screws holding it on were stripped (factory).
where are the true friendships in contemporary society?
Wendy Carlos plays the blue lobster theme
There are a lot of errors in the Bach score.... Nice that You attempted/ and helped to do something "new" in 1976,... but really there were many predecessors apparently mostly working in isolation....Many people had already been doing computer music for about 8-10 years, Charles Dodge and Joseph Olive, had appeared on a TV series called the 21st Century, sometime around 1966-7 , doing computer music, and I saw them at the "Kitchen" (the first video/electronic Arts gallery (Broome St. NYC, circa 1972). Woody & Steina Vasulka 'were involved in it's creation. Woody created some of the first digital / video/ specific synthesis , using his own modified Altair 2000, computer, the one with plans published in Popular Electronics, around 1973-6, including live frame capture of video 1974-5?. I and several others were involved in the Art's and Engineering program EAT (Bell labs and IBM ?) promoting computers as a part of electronic arts medium, in this period 1974-1976.
I looked at the notes last month. Need more "voices" to play as written by Bach. Which notes to leave out (when too many playing at once) -- for the equipment making the noise -- it sounded pretty good. The background noise -- wow -- it's a wonder we heard anything.
The 1604 played single tones from a speaker connected to a B register. Heard it ... 1970 to 1973 when it was shut down for the 6400, then cyber 73 and 6500.
The IBM 1401 played via card reader, punch card maker, printer, disk drives ... whipping that print chain around and tossing paper everywhere ... :) [1969]