Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!sdcc6!sdcc13!cpenrose From: cpenrose@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penrose) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: Definition of "computer music" Summary: don't let the wouldbe musicologists isolate us Keywords: instruments, computers, music Message-ID: <17108@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 1 Mar 91 18:29:05 GMT References: <17051@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1991Mar1.142157.2548@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: sdcc13.ucsd.edu In article <1991Mar1.142157.2548@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton) writes: >In article <17051@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cpenrose@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penrose) 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. I converted /vmunix on a Sun 3/280 (SunOS 4.0) at 36k mono. It shared the speech characteristics and periodicity of your experience - everyone in the room thought it was a choice sound. When I need an arbitrary binary file to test my signal processors, I always grab that file first - I know where it lives. I have always been irrationally annoyed by instrumentalists (guitarists especially) who spend a great deal of effort (speech and prose) exalting the mechanics of their instruments. I have discovered that I obviously do this too. Christopher Penrose jesus!penrose