Grind
Bill Schaeffer
Performed By
Bill Schaeffer
Album UPC
639311002726
CD Baby Track ID
BillSchaeffer1_011
Label
Atwater Publishing
Released
2009-08-05
BPM
94
Rated
0
ISRC
ushm80987352
Year
2009
Spotify Plays
1
Writers
Writer
William A. Schaeffer
Pub Co
Atwater Publishing
Composer
William A. Schaeffer
ClearanceTraditional SyncEasy Clear
Rights Controlled
Master
Rights
Easy Clear: Master
Original/Cover/Public Domain
original
Country
United States - California - LA
Description
Early Computer Music Performed by the PLATO Computer System on the Interactive Music Synthesizer, IMS, at the University of Illinois, Urbana, November 1985
Notes
In 1983, I was a graduate student at the University of Illinois, studying Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. In my spare time, I attended composer forums and was composing music for the C.E.R.L. PLATO Computer Music Project at the University of Illinois.
The project was directed by Lippold Haken, also a graduate student. We were a young, renegade bunch of digital music pioneers. Lippold, along with Kurt Hebel, had just built the Interactive Music Synthesizer, or IMS, to replace the beloved Gooch Cybernetic Synthesizer. Taking advantage of advancements in chip technology, the IMS had several improvements over the GCS -- it was all digital, sixteen bit, stereo output, with frequency modulation and more memory.
For the next few years I wrote music with this IMS music machine and stored it on the PLATO Computer System.
Just before I left Urbana, my friend Dale Sinder loaned me his 1/2" Beta MAX Hi-Fi VCR and I recorded the tracks on the CD. Over the years, the tapes were converted to DAT, and then from DAT to CD-R. It is fortunate that this music has survived so well.
Special thanks to everyone on the CERL music project and the PLATO computer system.
"Press NEXT to Begin."
The project was directed by Lippold Haken, also a graduate student. We were a young, renegade bunch of digital music pioneers. Lippold, along with Kurt Hebel, had just built the Interactive Music Synthesizer, or IMS, to replace the beloved Gooch Cybernetic Synthesizer. Taking advantage of advancements in chip technology, the IMS had several improvements over the GCS -- it was all digital, sixteen bit, stereo output, with frequency modulation and more memory.
For the next few years I wrote music with this IMS music machine and stored it on the PLATO Computer System.
Just before I left Urbana, my friend Dale Sinder loaned me his 1/2" Beta MAX Hi-Fi VCR and I recorded the tracks on the CD. Over the years, the tapes were converted to DAT, and then from DAT to CD-R. It is fortunate that this music has survived so well.
Special thanks to everyone on the CERL music project and the PLATO computer system.
"Press NEXT to Begin."
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