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