| 1970s |
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The idea for the Music Animation Machine started with a hallucination ... |
| 1970s |
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... and my frustration with reading a more complicated score ... |
| 1970s |
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... I tried a condensed score ... |
| 1970s |
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...which led to a bar-graph scroll. |
| 1981 |
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A guy from Hollywood suggested animating it... |
| 1982 |
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...and Michael Gottlieb recommended doing the animation with a computer. |
| 1985 |
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The MAM first saw the light of day! |
| 1985 |
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MIDI opened up many possibilities ... |
| 1986 |
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... I bought my first IBM PC clone and started designing version 2.0 for it ... |
| 1988 |
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... which I finished in the winter of 1988. |
| 1989 |
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Videotapes were sent to friends and others I thought might enjoy them ... |
| 1990 |
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... which led to the 1990 "First Demonstration Reel" ... |
| 1991 |
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... and my fifteen minutes of fame. |
| 1988 |
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I experimented with computer-assisted performance. |
| 1990 |
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Many things were not visible in the original MAM score ... tonality ... |
| 1991 |
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... rhythm ... |
| 1991? |
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... the special importance of the "now" moment ... |
| 1991 |
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... consonance/dissonance between pairs of notes ... |
| 1991 |
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... the compromises of equal temperament ... |
| 1992 |
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... and non-equal temperaments ... |
| 1992 |
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... interval relationships in chords ... |
| 1993 |
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... interval relationships in chords in a temporal context ... |
| 1993 |
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... timbre ... |
| 1994 |
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... and the interaction of different instruments. |
| 1995 |
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Oskar Fischinger was an inspiration. |
| 1997 |
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I got interested in scales made up of many equal intervals ... |
| 1997 |
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... the structure of canons ... |
| 1998 |
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... accents in scale passages ... |
| 1998 |
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... and the history of recently-heard notes. |
| 1998 |
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Will Pitkin had an idea for helping deaf infants. |
| 1998 |
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I tried showing the movement of the tonal center ... |
| 1998 |
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... interactions of overtones ... |
| 1999 |
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... and triadic relationships. |
| 2000 |
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Classic Arts Showcase began broadcasting the MAM regularly. |
| 2001 |
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I got more interested in what happens in the ear ... |
| 2001 |
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... which led to a job related to hearing and visualization. |