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From: garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton)
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Subject: Re: Definition of "computer music"
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Date: 1 Mar 91 14:21:57 GMT
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In article <17051@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cpenrose@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penrose) writes:
>
>the grunge of a converted a.out core file, all these examples can be
>considered "computer music".  Why must the concept of "computer music"
>exclude these possibilities?

Just for fun one night, we converted /vmunix on our Sun 3/280 (SunOS 3.2) at
20k mono, and I swear there is a human vocal sound in it!  About 2/3 of the
way through, it went "bleaugh".  Sounds a lot like LPC.  It was also
surprising how much periodicity there was.

It actually was a pretty snazzy piece of music -- we all wondered if it
might be possible to debug code by listening to it... :-)

Brad Garton
Music Dept.
brad@woof.columbia.edu