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From: mayer%hplnpm@HPLABS.HP.COM
Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa
Subject: weird computer music -- call (201)644-2332 collect.
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Date: Wed, 15-Oct-86 14:19:38 EDT
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from the trip report of some distrubuted unix conference:

> * +1 201-644-2332 or Eedie & Eddie Make Beautiful Music in a Distributed
> Computing Environment
> - Peter Langston, Bell Communications Research
> = As usual, Peter Langston stole the show with his talk.  He added a few
> words at the end pointing out that it really is a distributed environment
> that he is using.  If you haven't tried calling the number, you should
> (though success rate of everything being up and running and not crashing is
> about 56%, so try again if it doesn't work the first time).

review:

... stupid jokes ...

... improvised 3 part harmonies...

... improvised baaad scatting....

.... and silly sounding computer synthesed voice....

... music seems to be based on compositional grammars... err, I mean
grammars used to compose music, not the other kind of compositional
grammar, at least not on the surface....

... but then again what do I know.... I'm gonna check out the paper on
how all this is done sometime when I have time, when classes or work
let up, or hell freezes over. (the latter)

Niels.

PS: the second time I called, the system crashed, but before it died
it said "sorry something's wrong, please try again later."
Politenessman would be proud.