Synergy – Computer Experiments Volume One

Label: Format: Country: Released: Genre: Style:

Voiceprint – VP300CD, Third Contact – VP300CD

CD, Album, Reissue

UK

2003

Electronic

Downtempo, Experimental, Ambient

Recorded: January 1980 at The Synergy Studio,
Mixed: May 31, 1981 at the House of Music, West Orange, NJ.
Originally Mastered at Masterdisk, New York, NY.

℗&© 2003 Synergy® Electronic Music, Inc.

From the release notes: Computer Experiments Volume One is a recording of three different executions of a microcomputer self-composing program. The program, called "Pink Tunes", was written by John Simonton of PAiA Electronics Inc, and is an application of the stochastic process to electronic music. In simple terms, the computer is given a narrowed field of notes, durations, harmonies and the like from the total spectrum of all possibilites. The composer sets all of the musical ground rules, but then lets the computer combine and "compose" the musical elements in constantly varying ways according to stochastic, or controlled randomness structures.

This CD reissue is derived from digital transfers taken from the original, unequalized studio mixes made in 1981. These mixes predate the equalized and compressed transfer copies used for LP preparation.