Re: [microsound] herbert brun

[jayrope <jayrope@xxxxxx>]

thanx for info kim. i personally never worked with any other than mac-based
systems, so that is all news to me. ... hmmm

jayrope

anechoicmedia wrote:

> >is that a pc- or mac-based app?
>
> um, since this was done in 1979 I think we're talking PDP-11 or some such
> beast...
> let me also point out that although SAWDUST shares certain characteristics
> with granular synthesis (ie: manipulating sound on an 'atomic' level), the
> technique is better described as waveform synthesis: "the SAWDUST system is
> an interactive environment for manipulating amplitude points and combining
> them hierarchically into pieces of waveforms, sections and complete
> compositions" (Roads)
> there are other waveform synthesis systems such as Xenakis' GENDY and UPIC
> as well as waveshaping with random shaping functions...
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