Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!cynic!curt From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: Definition of "computer music" Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 11:28:14 GMT References: Organization: Mad Artists' Techno-Hangout, Vancouver, Canada Lines: 20 eiverson@nmsu.edu (Eric Iverson) writes: > In article <17011@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cpenrose@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penro > > > Computer music is a label for audio signals that were in some way > > affected by computer technology. > > Hmmm...that would mean most telephone conversations qualify as > computer music. What about RF noise interference from a PC? > Actually, the Altair *did* use this to create music, but I hardly > think that most RF noise qualifies. What about the sound of a PC > falling of a desk? That's a sound that's affected by computer > technology. John Cage would probably agree that all of the above qualify as music. cjs curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca | "Sometimes it's like a party you go to where curt@cynic.uucp | there are no lights and everyone is doing {uunet|ubc-cs}!van-bc!cynic!curt | animal impressions." -Phillip Evans on usenet