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seraph
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 Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 1:53 pm Post subject:
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http://ems.music.uiuc.edu/~martiran/
| Quote: | | .......In 1969, Salvatore Martirano along with a group of engineers and musicians at the University of Illinois began work on the design and construction of a musical electronic instrument. The instrument, named the SAL-MAR CONSTRUCTION, is a hybrid system in which TTL logical curcuits (small and medium scale integration) drive analog modules, such as voltage-controlled oscillators, amplifiers and filters........ |
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elektro80
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 3:23 pm Post subject:
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Amazing!
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seraph
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| Salvatore Martirano wrote: | The most oft asked question after a concert performance with Sal-Mar was: "Do you know what it will do next?". Though too complex to analyze it was possible to predict what sound would result and this caused me to lightly touch or slam the switch as if this had an effect on the two-state logic. I was in the loop, trading swaps with the logic. Let's face it, there are some things you can't talk about and make much sense. I enabled paths, or better, I steered. To make music with the SMC is like driving a flying bus."
--Salvatore Martirano
"...Basically (The SAL-MAR) is an attempt - and in the opinion of most observers a highly successful one - to solve a problem which has intrigued musicians for several years: the real-time generation of electronic music. The conventional electronic synthisizer is severely limited as a real-time instrument since it can produce only a limited number of sound events without manual change of its circuitry. Mr. Martirano's solution has been to incorporate a digital computer within the framework of a large, multichannel synthisizer. Seated at a console of 291 switches, the composer-performer controls the course of the performance by selecting material from an infinity of possibilities, choosing the permutations through which it passes and directing its movement in space..."
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What a user interface....291 switches 
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| I think I have to read the documentation and look up some papers on the very design of this thing.. but this is a kind of algorithmic chaotic real time system? In many ways this resembles the patch Howard used for his performances in London and Trondheim. |
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