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From: chris@cornell.UUCP (Christopher F. Harrison)
Newsgroups: net.music.synth
Subject: Re: ircam?
Message-ID: <1650@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Dec-85 11:08:42 EST
Article-I.D.: cornell.1650
Posted: Thu Dec 12 11:08:42 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Dec-85 20:35:10 EST
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Reply-To: chris@cornell.UUCP (Christopher F. Harrison)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept.
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Keywords: Exchange of Ideas, Fresh Air in a Stale Newsgroup...
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In article <1652@decwrl.UUCP> malik@galaxy.DEC (Karl Malik) writes:
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>	I personally would love to be involved in a discussion with
>the IRCAM folks. BUT, I'm not so sure that our discussions would be of much
>interest to them.

    Karl, I hope you won't take my criticisms to heart, because I know 
where you and many others are coming from. This newsgroup has served a
purpose for alot of people in need of the type of information you speak of
below.  

>	IRCAM has some impressive musicians and technicians working
>there.  They certainly aren't going to be interested in questions
>about how to hook up your new Casio to a drum machine.

    I'm not interested either, but those impressive tech.s and artists
might be interested in WHY you bothered to buy the Casio (ie-what appealed 
to your ear), let alone hook it to a drum machine. Music synthesis is a wide
subject area, not just a term describing an IC chip with piano keys soldered
onto it.

>       NO sarcasm intended here - I mean it literally - What is
>the reasoning behind forwarding net.music.synth to IRCAM?  Can you
>imagine a mutually satisfying dialog developing?
 
    I have unsubscribed once from this newsgroup, and was about to do
it again(I'm under the impression that I'm the only one on the net who
plays a memorymoog plus). I've submitted a few articles asking for info, but
they might as well be black-holed for all the response I received. Now I
finally see a reason to continue subscribing, and I believe that this is
just what the doctor ordered for a (in my opinion) stale newsgroup.
    I think you can understand this reasoning; there are alot of CS students
as well as engineers and others directly or indirectly involved with
personal, professional, and technical research in this subject. Alot of 
them have stayed shy due to the restricted nature of the articles, i.e.-
price surveys, machine specific midi info., and my Axe is better than yours
articles. How many general interest articles are there? I could get heavily
entrenched in the subject of music and emotion, what sends the chill up the
spine, and is there a way to tap into a composer's music-generating brain
waves, to name one. I've always been intrigued by music-related research, 
and the exchange of ideas could be quite active if this channel of 
communication is opened. 
    At any rate, this is not net.my.synth.is.better.than.your.synth, nor is
it net.midi.interface, it's net.music.synth, and I feel the name qualifies
the IRCAM much more than a programmer who plays a casio for fun and wants
to conduct a price survey. If people will watch the amount of drivel that 
gets posted we won't get too swamped, and if the subject matter stabilizes
the same way that the present garbage has, your updated kill file can take
care of things pretty well.