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>  We also talked about another composer 
>(Stockhausen?  Xenaxis?) who talked about sifting
sound >particles through a sieve.

that's Xenaxis.  Stockhausen wouldn't need to shift
particles being as he is pure energy and god and all
of that.

your discussion of scores brings up the potentially
longwinded debate/discussion regarding the changing
function of those things with regard to sound (this
has been happening for like 50 years).  Scores used to
be, of course, instrunctions for fabrication of pieces
following specific linguistic rules and cultural
context.  They function in many different ways now,
including as pure visual objects.

Fred Frith has some nice graphic scores which are
photos of things and actually have rules that go along
with them as to how to interpret the photos.  Really
in this case the photos are just metaphors for a
structural game-idea.  They are nice though because
they mediate the whole instruction vs pure visual
metaphor situation


so much could be said about this but it makes me sort
of sleepy right now

what happens if you try to run jMax on a mac with OS
9?


I wonder why your soundcard didn't like pd.  Over at
Stanford I hear that they are ONLY running linux now,
and everyone is using pd.  maybe somebody from there
could help you trouble shoot

jorge

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