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Subject: Re: Brian Eno discussed in print - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 15:39:09 EDT
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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.