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From:
William Samuels
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Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:23:36 -0700 (PDT)
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[idm] Trurl and Klapacius ?
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Has anyone hear the Trurl and Klapacius (Cristian Vogel) cd? I was curious what it's like. TRURL AND KLAPACIUS - Sing Sweet Software! [SUPREMAT] CD "Trurl and Klapacius are robots. In Stanislav Lem's Cyberiad mid-60?s novel, they?re busy flying around the universe building machines. Each machine they build makes up a chapter from this visionary book. Cristian Vogel was reading these stories while celebrating his hobby in the studio: recording the variation of modules of modular systems he programmed himself -- modulating each other for periods of time. The result is music that does not evolve, it?s varying. Borrowing the names of Lem?s robots in reference to his own automated studio work, the Vogel experiment turned into a project when he picked his favourite musical modules -- computers and their software -- and let them go to work on their own. In his own eyes, he?s not the composer of the work so much as the executive producer. The computer itself rather -- the software within -- wrote the music: Vogel?s contributions filtered and edited the final outcomes. This parallel to Cyberiad?s Trurl And Klapacius sidelines and highlights the Supremat philosophy: Machines constructing machines; machines creating music that?s constantly varied and reinventing itself." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org