OFF: Sequencers, What they are (in a nutshell)

[John McIntyre]

>From: Craig Shipley <craigs at PYRAMID.COM>

>I keep waiting for the day when a composer walks out on stage, with his
>computer center stage, surrounded by synth modules and announces his latest
>piece of music. He clicks on "PLAY", leaves the stage and lets the hardware
>perform the show. At the end of the concert, he returns, to accept the
>applause and shut the system down. Would you feel cheated?

The earliest electronic music concerts consisted of the playback of a tape
recording, although in a lot of cases, the music was a product of tape
techniques and could not be performed in real time.

John McIntyre
Physics - Astronomy Domine Dept
Michigan State University
mcintyre at pa.msu.edu