RE: [microsound] Dr. Max Matthews (was our first .microsound poll )

[Eloy Anzola <eloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bill,

I absolutely know what you mean. 

Although, I was the opposite. Being the nerd that
I am and was as a kid, it actually steered me towards
electronic music.

.... eventually I figured how to program sounds on
my Atari 400 using Basic. The duration of the notes
depended on their frequency, which probably explains
why I have no rhythm.

Whether we like his artistic output or not, and whether
we know it or not, Dr. Matthews work has probably
influenced most on this list.

.... then again, I don't remember if voted for him on
the poll...

cheers,

Eloy
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eloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://groovylab.com/



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Jarboe [mailto:billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:29 PM
> To: microsound
> Subject: Re: [microsound] our first .microsound poll 
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> 
>  I was aware of Matthews and music directly influenced or 
> derived from his
> work at an early age. I remember listening to electronic 
> soundblurbs on the
> radio at the barbershop when I was 8 years old.
> 
>  I didn't like them . If anything it made me steer away from 
> electronically
> generated sound for quite some time.
> 
> 
> on 9/30/04 12:01 PM, Eloy Anzola at eloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Max Matthews is da man.
> > 
> > His research at Bell labs basically created computer music.
> > 
> > more at (or try Google):
> > http://www.csounds.com/mathews/
> > "At Bell Labs in 1957, Mathews demonstrated synthesis of 
> music on a digital
> > computer with his Music I program.... he has been called 
> the "father of
> > computer music,"...
> > 
> > Most computer music programs derive in some way from Music I.
> > 
> > btw, when we talk MAX/MSP, the MAX part refers to him.


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