[HN Gopher] Electronic Music: Allen Strange's Classic Book Reissued
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       Electronic Music: Allen Strange's Classic Book Reissued
        
       Author : bwidlar
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2022-07-26 08:50 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.perfectcircuit.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.perfectcircuit.com)
        
       | miobrien wrote:
       | Very cool. Thanks for posting!
        
       | nonrandomstring wrote:
       | > it remains a source of inspiration for many. What do you think
       | gives this particular text such staying power?
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       | > Jason: I find Allen's work really weird and enticing. I'm not a
       | musician or composer. I'm at best a student. His book is a
       | masterful enticement to exploration.
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       | In the age of plugins and off-the-shelf products that supplant
       | principles and knowledge we so need arts technology books that
       | hold this torch.
       | 
       | I still go back to Dodge and Jerse, Curtis Roads CMT, or
       | Boulangers Csound Book when I am feeling a little jaded with
       | music tech, just to find a spark of inspiration that sets off a
       | new idea.
        
         | Optimal_Persona wrote:
         | Yeah, the classics are evergreen. Beyond Roads' Computer Music
         | Tutorial, his Microsound is also a classic of the genre and IMO
         | one of the best treatments I've seen of time-based artforms,
         | situating compositional practice in between the Planck time as
         | the lower bound and the age of the universe as the upper. :-)
         | 
         | Allen Strange also wrote a manual for programming the Buchla
         | Music Easel synth:
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         | https://buchla.com/guides/Buchla_Music_Easel_Manual.pdf
         | 
         | Minus the patch storage of the original hardware, you can work
         | through it using Arturia's Buchla Easel standalone/plugin
         | software:
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         | https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/buchla...
        
       | _def wrote:
       | I don't really get why one doesn't get the pdf in any case with
       | the soft or hard cover but I'm still glad this is happening
        
       | waffletower wrote:
       | Wonderful and amazing to see this news here! Sad that Allen was
       | taken too early shortly after retiring.
        
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