16 Jun
2003
16 Jun
'03
5:32 p.m.
Bill Schottstaedt wrote:
On Saturday 14 June 2003 02:50 am, Frank Barknecht
wrote:
[...]
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.
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.