Music Technology
1989.01 – 04 . Worked with the erudite M3 Sweatt, who taught me Nisus. Opcode allowed me to buy my Mac IIx through them, and later a LaserWriter IIntx (which cost $4600!).
1989.01 At NAMM, exposed to the Hip programs Harmony Grid and HookUp. The latter allowed MIDI to control basic animation. The applications of this concept improved for a tightly synchronized environment became the subject of my U.S. Patent 5,286,908 applied for in 1991 April.
1989.01 – 03 Continued waveguide instrument research for Yamaha/DSD, culminating in “Marketing Modeling Syntheziers”. {Ironically, five years later we were to do just that via Seer Systems.}
whets the appetite and gives a very ironic outcome ten years later.
Waveguide app by Steve O’Connell (later BitHeadz) ran on Mac with expanded Sound Accelerator. Since I had a IIfx with same at home, I was able to bug test and develop voices.
The application was parametric for each waveguide. Box & wires interface for connecting guides…, but real attention-getting sound was the sounboard being hammered at the highest end of the keyboard. very dramatic demonstration of what was occuring, as the resonances fed into the lower strings
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1988.03 “A Visit to IRCAM”; article for Keyboard, unpublished.