Re: Emulators and Standards; Multimedia Policy Manuals

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Fri, 20 Feb 98 08:49:32 PST


As the name implies, these are multiple media.
New ones keep emerging, so standards keep changing.
One enters the "plug-in" world where a work of art
cannot be seen without some obscure new subroutine.

But all god's chillun got algorithms.
I keep thinking about "Music for Airports."
Transcribers found a method to Eno's madness
and scored for orchestra what had once been bits of tape.
Of course, music, like math, makes the problem easier,
but as Stewart says, "Let's solve the easy problems first."

Consider music as an intelligent archivist challenge.
One archivist goes off with a digitizer and reduces
"Music for Airports" to bits of spectral sound. Another
sits down, listens to the music and writes a score.

Which goes into
Dept. of Archives and Manuscripts
Arizona State University Libraries, Rob?

Which one satisfies the composer, Brian?

Tom Ditto