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

iriXx m at iriXx.org
Mon Jun 16 18:51:01 EDT 2003


Joseph Zitt 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.
> 

wow. i wish i had....

> 
> 


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