...from synth diy...
This news has been floating around the CSound list yesterday - it
came in right after it happened.
It seems that Iannis Xenakis, one of the pioneers of algorithmic
composition, died yesterday. FWIK, he was the first person to ever muck
with mathematical algorithms and recursive functions related to
music. Most of the details are here:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010204/re/france_xenakis_dc_1.html--Shemp