I have that -- the "yellow book"! (Even the white pages are yellow now...) I
actually pulled it off the shelf last night to bring into work today to scan
a page or two as examples for this list, but I seem to have left it behind
in the early morning rush out the door.
It's a classic (complete with the 70's psychedelic typefaces for chapter
headings).
I was first introduced to this notational system by Prof. Anne Modugno
(spelling?) who taught electronic music at Yale and the University of
Bridgeport here in Connecticut. She also authored and narrated a boxed LP
set of 'how to make electronic music' which you can sometimes find in
libraries; I do not have a copy and haven't seen it in about 25 years, but I
wouldn't be surprised if the "circle/triangle/square" notation was used in
the included booklet.
Although a lot of that album set, and the pink & purple EM workbook that she
had published for teaching EM, had more to do with tape-created EM & musique
concrete techniques than with modular synthesizers... a lot of this was
still pretty early.
Ah, these kids today and their 'keyboards'... <b,bg>
-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin Jones [mailto:
mjones@...]
Sent: Thursday, 03 July, 2003 1:16 PM
To:
motm@yahoogroups.comSubject: [motm] Re: patch sources
Thanks for the plug, Ken and Russell. ;-)
Polyphony Publishing also put out a patch source compendium called "The
Source" in 1978. It was a softbound book containing all the patches we
had published up to that point, and made it to at least 3 printings as of
1980. ISBN 0-933338-00-7 124 pages.
The first chapter reviewed the standard patch symbology of the time, as
mentioned by others here. Later chapters divided the patches up into
Tonal/melodic patches, Atonal patches and sound effects, and "Technique"
patches (setups to use modules in unorthodox ways, or in live performance
environments, etc.)
I am investigating the possibility of securing republication rights to
some of the early Polyphony materials. We'll see how it goes.
mj
>Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 00:03:38 -0000
> From: "pacificamsx" <pacificamsx@...>
>Subject: Re: MOTM Addiction - patch notation
>
>--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Tkacs, Ken" <ken.tkacs@j...> wrote:
>> Way back in the Dark Ages (the 70's) there WAS a standard for
>> this. In a
>> flowchart-like format...
>> You can see it in a lot of old
>> issues of Keyboard and Polyphony (later Electronic Musician)
>> magazines.
>
>That was always my favorite method of documenting patches.
>
>And I got about four of my patches published in Polyphony way back
>then! I think I made $5.00 per accepted patch, which may very well
>be the first professional music gig I ever had! :)
>
>-Russell
>
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