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Finding Joy in Gibberish

from State Machine Music by Joe Paradiso

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This was the first autonomous patch of any significance that I made on my synthesizer. It was an initial test of my newly-assembled synth cabinets, which were all on the floor at the time in the kitchen of my carriage house apartment in Newton MA - it was the only place where I could fit them all and still move around to work on and complete everything (I designed and built the modules themselves that I used here while I was living in Zurich, and assembled them into the cabinets - essentially modified bookcases - in Newton). When I successfully powered them all up, I wanted to do a fun 'hello world' patch, and this is what resulted. After laughing for an extended period, I grabbed a cassette recorder and archived some 20 minutes of it.

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from State Machine Music, released January 1, 2002

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Joe Paradiso Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joe Paradiso has been designing, building, and using his own music synthesizers and systems since 1975. Joe is a professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he has designed many kinds of electronic musical instruments and controllers that have been used in performance worldwide. He has composed synth patches for live soundscape performances at several public venues, including Ars Electronica 2004. ... more

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