MOTM

In a message dated 4/29/2000 3:49:10 AM, hugo.haesaert@... writes:

>The playback box (built by 
>Buchla) would both interact with real time audio from the score 
>played by the musician, and the cv's coming from the recorder 

A recording instructor of mine (John Payne) at the time (early eighties) also 
taught at Calarts with Subotnick, and built Ghost boxes for him. I never 
actually knew how they worked (BP, AM), but I could easily imagine him using 
"off the shelf" components. Calarts did have a large Buchla at the time, and 
Serge got his start there in the mid seventies.

It was common to hear people disparage the music that Subotnick was making at 
this time as being inferior to his early analog pieces -- it was very 
different music of course since it had live traditional orchestral 
instruments, modulated by electronic instruments.
JB