Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbvax!TOPAZ:fantods From: TOPAZ:fantods@ucbvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Brian Eno discussed in print - (nf) Message-ID: <196@ucbtopaz.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 15:39:09 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbtopaz.196 Posted: Mon Jun 13 15:39:09 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Jun-83 06:00:31 EDT References: <462@tekcad.UUCP> ucbvax.282 Lines: 13 True about the fractals--Eno was just discussing the current state of synthesizers sold in music stores...they are very limited, and as he said (Paraphrased from memory) "I'd rather have a crummy old organ that will give me six good sounds than some modern machine that will give me an infinite variety of mediocre sounds." Stockhausen and many others have used the technique of speeding up rhythms until they become "sounds", that is, taking something at 2 or three beats per second and speeding it up to a couple of hundrd or thousand through successive tape loops and such. Stockhausen's attempts at this created some very interesting sounds that didn't sound "synthesized", but sure as heck didn't sound like anyting I'd ever heard before, either.