> On Jul 11, 2023, at 3:06 PM, Marc Howard via cctalk <cctalk@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
