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Half A Man

from Patchwork by Joe Paradiso

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I did this piece in the summer of 1989. It was the last 'composed' keyboard piece that I made, I believe, for 25 years. I did it in the basement studio of my Medford Condo using Bill Southworth's MIDI Paint sequencer, and in addition to basic MIDI synths like a K2000 and Ensoniq Mirage (featuring mainly my own samples), I had adapted the MIDI Interface that I was building for Lyle Mays (paradiso.media.mit.edu/4voice.html) to control my modular system at a basic level so I could use it with the sequencer. I was thinking about Prince's Batman theme and the music of Test Department around that time - this is what came out.

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from Patchwork, released July 1, 2000

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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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