Interesting stuff going on in the CCRMA Cmdist list concerning a revival of Max Matthews’ Music5.

Bill Schottstaedt’s original post (26 April, 2008):

I’ve added music5.f to the Snd tarball and CVS site. It’s the
version of music 5 we had here at Stanford in the late 60’s,
typed in laboriously by yours truly from faded and yellowing
XGP output. The “I” and “1” characters (which make up 50%
of the total) are nearly indistinguishable in this output, so
my eyes are blurry, my hands are palsied, my shoulders
hurt. I need a beer. Anyway, I would love to get this working,
but I can’t remember much Fortran, and gfortran doesn’t
like the dialect used in music5.f (“obsolete arithmetic IF” etc).
If anyone is interested, I’d be more than happy to run back
to the sources to check up on typos and so on.

An archive of the Cmdist list can be found here: http://www.mail-archive.com/cmdist@ccrma.stanford.edu/ .
Link to Snd tarball: ftp://ftp-ccrma.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/snd-9.tar.gz

Also, a couple manuals on MUSIC IV have been scanned and uploaded online:
ftp://ftp-ccrma.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/music-iv-class-notes.pdf
ftp://ftp-ccrma.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/music-iv-programmers-manual.pdf

Enjoy!

Max

dear friends:
CBC, in anticipation of a special program they will do on 1st of June [day before my birthday 79]  , have created a web site with the complete recording of my retrospective concert of March 1-, 2008. Just click on the lin k and enjoy, pictures and music. alcides
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20080310lanza

alcides lanza

6351 Trans-Island Avenue

Montreal, Quebec     H3W 3B7

(514) 733-7216        (514) 398-4535 ext. 0544

McGill pages:

www.music.mcgill.ca/~alcides

http://coltrane.music.mcgill.ca/memsa/

To download samples of my music visit

www.sonus.ca

To purchase CDs and musical scores of my music visit:

www.penntech-records.com

Electronic Music Foundation:

http://www.cdemusic.org/artists/lanza.html

ElectroCD.com @:

www.electrocd.com/bio.f/lanza_al.html

Got a little time on your hands? How’s about some extreme time-stretching? Here’s a quote:

“The “HyperStretch” mode – may stretch up to 1,000,000,000 times”

Hmmm. Say you start with a 1 second sample. That’s 31 years once stretched. You may want to listen to it with a fairly large mug of coffee near by. Oh, and make sure you have an extra roll or two of toilet paper in the house. You’ll also need a bit of extra storage for that processed file (160,000+ Gb, I figure, at 44.1/16bit/stereo).

Read more about this software here: http://hypermammut.sourceforge.net/paulstretch/
    

Ned

  
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