Wiardgroup

An advance info on the system being built for Middle Tenessee 
State University:

http://www.tomthayer.net/information.html#anchor1508309

Thanks to Professor Thayer for his permission to post the site 
and his endorsement.

Plans are to make an ongoing project of seeing what the 
students do with the instrument. Also the new wooden case 
designed for this project will be available.

That's wonderful news, in many regards. It's the first time I hear of 
not only a Wiard, but any of the contemporary modulars being used for 
visual art.

Considering the complexity of the Wiard and how it leans to 
adventures, students that learned their skill on them will be able to 
program pretty much any analog or virtual modular system with ease, 
rather than being scared by non-vanilla techniques (...absolutely no 
slight on more traditional manufacturers and fans intended).

Last but not least, I imagine it extremely satisfying for Grant to 
know that, for a change from us spoiled synth nerds, this instrument 
will serve students who might not be able to buy a similar instrument 
themselves, who might have a completely different approach and coax 
other things out of the instrument than musicians, or who might have 
no previous experience at all and will be influenced (or shocked ;-) 
for life.

I'd love to see how the project will go. Will it be documented on 
their website?

Also curious to see the wooden case.


--- In wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com, "grantrichter2001" <grichter@a...> 
wrote:

> An advance info on the system being built for Middle Tenessee 
> State University:
> 
> http://www.tomthayer.net/information.html#anchor1508309
> 
> Thanks to Professor Thayer for his permission to post the site 
> and his endorsement.
> 
> Plans are to make an ongoing project of seeing what the 
> students do with the instrument. Also the new wooden case 
> designed for this project will be available.
>