The historical CD of digital sound synthesis.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Series:

Computer music currents ; 13.

Digital music digital

Computer music currents ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer music.

Genre:

Computer music.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

Mainz, Germany : Wergo, [1995]

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

digital recording

Contents:

The silver scale (0:19) ; Pitch variations (1:00) / Newman Guttman

Stochatta / John R. Pierce (0:37)

Numerology (2:30) ; The second law (3:27) / Max V. Mathews

Bicycle built for two / arranged by Max V. Mathews (1:44)

Study no. 1 (1:36) ; Study no. 2 (3:15) / David Lewin

Variations in timbre and attack (1:20) ; Sea sounds (1:47) / John R. Pierce

Masquerades / Max. V. Mathews (2:46)

Dialogue / James Tenney (4:16)

Pipe and drum (3:08) ; Trio (3:24) / Ercolino Ferretti

Mudgett : monologues for a mass murderer / James Randall (10:01)

International lullaby / Max V. Mathews (2:10)

Eight-tone canon / John R. Pierce (3:54)

Sound examples of Jean-Claude Risset's Introductory catalogue of computer synthesized sounds (17:18).

Contents of the accompanying booklet: Foreword / John Pierce

Descriptions of pieces

Recollections / John Pierce

Generation of music by a digital computer / M.V. Mathews, N. Guttman

Musical sounds from digital computers / M.V. Mathews, J.R. Pierce, N. Guttman

The digital computer as a musical instrument / M.V. Mathews

Further experiments on the use of the computer in connection with music / J.R. Pierce, M.V. Mathews, J.C. Risset

Selected bibliography of early publications

Discography of early recordings from Bell Labs

My 1969 sound catalogue : looking back from 1992 / Jean Claude Risset

An introductory catalogue of computer synthesized sounds / Jean Claude Risset.

Participant:

Various performers and composers.

Notes:

Wergo: WER 2033-2 (additional number on container: 282 033-2)

"Music with computers."

Compact disc.

Program notes and reprints of articles (254 p.) inserted in container.

Chiefly realized at Bell Laboratories between 1957 and 1966.

Contains:

Guttman, Newman. Silver scale.

Guttman, Newman. Pitch variations.

Pierce, John R. (John Robinson), 1910-2002. Selections.

Mathews, Max V. Computer music. Selections

Lewin, David. Studies, computer, no. 1.

Lewin, David. Studies, computer, no. 2.

Tenney, James. Dialogue.

Ferretti, Ercolino. Pipe and drum.

Ferretti, Ercolino. Trio.

Randall, J. K., 1929-2014. Mudgett.

Risset, Jean-Claude. Introductory catalogue of computer synthesized sounds.

OCLC:

35748940

Publisher Number:

010228203325

WER 2033-2 Wergo

282 033-2 Wergo