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- Subject: Re: Novel Midi Controllers
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.174936.2116@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 17:49:36 -0500
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- In terms of ideas for new Midi performance systems, I do have
- something interesting to suggest, though I think it's not going to hit
- the market incredibly soon. Max Mathews, researcher at Stanford and
- the father of computer music languages, is currently working on an
- instrument which looks like a box with a wand attached to it.
- Conceptually, it seems similar to a theremin, that wonderful piece of
- bizzarity used by Jimmy Page and various composers circa 1930 which
- somehow generates musical oscillation through the magnetic field
- immeadiately surrounding it. Refer to "The Song Remains the Same" or
- your local electronic music freak if curious. Anyways, this Mathews
- box intrigued me when I saw it in early January at Stanford.
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