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From: sandell@ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell)
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Subject: Re: What has happened to this newsgroup?
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Date: 11 Jun 91 15:26:50 GMT
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In article <2503@cluster.cs.su.oz.au>, danny@moria.cs.su.OZ.AU (Danny Yee) writes:
> What has happened to this newsgroup?  
> Has comp.music.theory been created without my noticing?
> 
> Where are you Eliot Handelman and Stephen Smoliar?

Funny, I think someone once asked "What has happened to this newsgroup?" when
Eliot Handelman and Stephen Smoliar *were* posting.    :-)  You
can find their contributions with frequency on rec.music.classical
now.

Comp.music, I believe (and I'm no official representative), is nominally 
devoted to matters pertaining to research involving both computers and music.
Some of the subjects which get posted here are about synthesis
algorithms, non-commercial software synthesis packages, music notation
software, online musical databases, research in music cognition, 
music & auditory perception.  (Questions about commercial
music software and hardware are more appropriate on rec.music.synth,
but sadly, many people post here on this subject anyway.)  One category
of discussion that goes on here from time to time are debates about
the musical-philosophical implications of these subjects, and
this was much of the bread and butter of EH's and SS's postings.
For the time being they seem to be using rec.music.classical as a
forum for this, which I think is a good choice since it fits in
with so much else going on there, and they get alot more interaction
from other readers (whereas on comp.music the dialogue tended to
be limited to about three people).

-- 
Greg Sandell
sandell@ils.nwu.edu