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From: rowe@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Robert Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Definition of "computer music"
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Date: 1 Mar 91 15:16:12 GMT
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In article <1991Mar1.142157.2548@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton) writes:

>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.

Rick Banks did the same thing with the whole disk at the Institute of
Sonology one night about 13 years ago. He actually recorded the whole thing
on tape, turned into a nice piece about 10 minutes or so. I don't remember
if it ever made it onto a concert. It was called, of course, "Disco"...

robert rowe
MIT Media Lab