EUTERPE A Computer Language for the Expression of Musical Ideas
dc.contributor.author | Smoliar, Stephen | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2004-10-01T20:49:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2004-10-01T20:49:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1967-04-01 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | AIM-129 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5850 | |
dc.description.abstract | The electronic medium has vastly increased the amount of material available to the contemporary composer. The various pieces of electronic equipment available today allow one to produce any conceivable sound; yet because of the complex nature of their output, these devices are generally difficult to control and the composer of electronic music may take several hours to prepare but a few minutes of his creation. EUTERPE was designed during the summer of 1966 by Marvin Minsky as a "real-time" music program" to be used at a teletype which was a direct link with a digital computer. The program is an interpreter and compiler, basically a translation device to convert symbolic input into internal machine language of a computer. The symbolic input consists of yup to six "voice-programs" which are strings of words. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 11 p. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 8790030 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 241707 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/postscript | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | AIM-129 | en_US |
dc.title | EUTERPE A Computer Language for the Expression of Musical Ideas | en_US |