Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!midway!mimsy!leviathan.cs.umd.edu!ogata From: ogata@leviathan.cs.umd.edu (Jefferson Ogata) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: Definition of "computer music" Message-ID: <30786@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 28 Feb 91 03:45:29 GMT References: <1991Feb26.083810.27113@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <17011@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <17051@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Reply-To: ogata@leviathan.cs.umd.edu (Jefferson Ogata) Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 27 In article <17051@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cpenrose@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penrose) writes: >In article eiverson@nmsu.edu (Eric Iverson) writes: >>In article <17011@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cpenrose@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Christopher Penrose) writes: >> 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? >>... >>I believe a more specific definition is in order. >I actually considered the musicality of telephone conversations while >I was posting my first reply. audible rf interference, the nifty whir >of a disk drive spinning up, the sound of coffee spilled onto a motherboard, Why not just include the word `music'? As in: Computer music is a label for music that is in some way affected by computer technology. I personally still don't think this quite flies; it leaves it hanging on the definition of "computer technology". Besides, I don't think Joe Ordinary will call a singer using a digital reverb "computer music". And what about analog reverbs? Those are just analog computers...what about a lot of things that behave more or less deterministically, but are controlled by humans...like saxophones and pianos...etc.? Is all this "computer music"? -- Jefferson Ogata ogata@cs.umd.edu University Of Maryland Department of Computer Science