Re: [microsound] "Academic" computer music?

["pelagius pelagius" <pela_gius@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: "ph!L @ c e n t i b e l" <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Primarily, I am thinking of "computer music" in the classical sense of
>the term, i.e., music produced at research-based institutions using
>computers in a way in which only a computer could be used (i.e., not
>using computers to just emulate analog devices or non-digital sound
>processing).

Well, I would argue that in the strictest sense there are very few ways to 
use a computer "in a way in which only a computer can be used" but I suppose 
that's another discussion.  My experience of classical computer music comes 
mainly from buying old LPs and some of the "Computer Music Currents" CDs.  
To me the biggest sources of inspiration have been the primitive beginnings 
documented on Computer Music Currents 13 'Historical CD of Digital Sound 
Synthesis'.  I like the really early stuff for the rawness of tone and sheer 
pioneering spirit.

>Admittedly, recently, the term "computer music" is becoming
>somewhat anachronistic, as more and more electroacoustic music is being
>done on the computer, as opposed to in the classical tape music studio
>or with analog voltage control devices or whatever.

And not only electroacoustic music in the academic sense but popular music 
of all kinds as well.
I had understood this to be the basic thrust of the list when I first 
encountered the description at microsound.org.  I had (perhaps wrongly) 
taken the term "post digital" to refer to an understanding that we had moved 
beyond the idea of "computer music" as a meaningful specialized pursuit or 
category and into an area where the use of digital computer technology is 
taken for granted as a fundamental aspect of all contemporary music 
creation.

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