Maybe I’m naive but i just thought that it would be impossible to make this kind of music in china. Good video as well, and the two linked videos, about touring china and refurbishing censored tapes, look interesting as well.
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I don’t know. I see references that the Fairlight was a 16 bit sampler but perhaps not all models.
I use on my iPhone the app Vogel CMI maintained by Vogel itself…fantastic app on an iPhone and less costly than a real Fairlight…I got miRack too…
I’ve seen this one! Joe is the creator of Erlang, an amazing language for concurrent software. Good post!
The immensely talented Tony Levin
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I’m salivating, big Tony fan…
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I recently re-watched both parts of this interview. What a visionary. The word “heroic” truly applies to Iannis Xenakis.
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Very interesting hearing Xenakis talk about deterministic and probabilistic or chaotic music. I really do not know my music history. I started developing Meander in 1988, which was 6 years before I had access to the internet and World Wide Web. It was so difficult at that time to uncover the history. It is fun though, learning after the fact that I wasn’t so far out in left field with what I was doing with fractal Brownian motion or 1/f noise time correlated chaos music, nor was I the first.
Thanks for posting this.
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Alex Ball visits the Italian synth museum, plays a bunch of weird and wonderful oddball machines.
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Wonderful! God I love the sound of those old string machines. Am I off base when thinking that the Italiens made those sound better than anyone else?
Certainly made machines that exude character. One thing I must remember to do after watching that is give the Spotless Mind soundtrack a listen to see if I can spot the overlapping Optigan loops.
You might enjoy dipping into Xenakis’s book Formalized Music.
Sadly, wildly overpriced. You might look for a PDF or a copy for sale on eBay.
Regarding the history: I’m currently enjoying Peter Manning’s Electronic And Computer Music. He’s a fine writer, the book covers a lot of relevant material. Highly recommended.
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Thanks. I’ll take a look at these.
I found the Formalized Music PDF fairly easily. The table of contents appears to be right up my alley, so to speak. Stochastic, Markovian, … space and time.
Thanks again.
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That was very interesting and related to what Xenakis was striving for in the previous topic… but a lot easier to understand than Xenakis 
I imagine that music serves a variety of needs and purposes for humans. Other forms of physical art seem similar. It just feels good to make art. I.E., much of the pleasure is in the making. The zen of art.
Then we have the zen of art appreciation.
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I started watching 100 Humans on Netflix, and I find it quite enjoyable and informative. I love the innovative approach to testing hypotheses and studying human behavior through various social experiments. It’s a reality show, and I love how you can see and analyze how humans react to different situations. Also, because I started using an iptv reseller, I am happy that my options are greater now. I can watch so many amazing TV shows and documentaries without worrying that they will no longer be on the platform in a week or a month. Those who watch it too - what is your opinion on the show?
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Thank you for this. Quite enjoyable!
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Do you know of any Rack modules that have a table of the first N primes, or some such?