[linux-audio-user] Re: you might already have a hardware synth in your office

[R Parker]

--- Joseph Zitt <jzitt at metatronpress.com> wrote:
> Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:50 am, Frank Barknecht
> wrote:
> > [...]
> > 
> >>here's someone making music with a dot matrix
> printer:
> > 
> > 
> > When I was about 10 (around 1960), the place my
> father worked
> > installed a barnful of IBM's; I got to tour the
> joint, and the
> > thing I remember best was when one of the
> operators played
> > a buzzy "Happy Birthday" on what I remember as a
> printer, though
> > maybe it was the paper tape reader.
> 
> Back in 1982 or so, I did a piece in my office that
> employed about a 
> dozen spacially separated line printers and beeping
> terminals. Due to 
> lags in the computers and devices some very cool
> kinda minimalist 
> phasings and staggerings happened.
> 
> The good thing about working the midnight shift was
> that I was able to 
> get away with such stunts. The bad thing was that no
> one else ever heard it.

that's great. MTV, nah! But I'd buy a TV Guide to find
geekTV.

ron

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