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At 4:28 PM -0500 6/21/05, Jon Southwood wrote: >Incidentally, I just remembered that early experiments with prime >numbers and voices moving at different speeds were done using Tim >Thompson's KeyKit My earliest looping patterns were done on the Buchla 100 Series modular system at UCSD in 1977. This was one of the early generation instruments, brought down from MIlls by Pauline Oliveros. There were four sequencers (two 16-step and two 8-step), each with its own pulse generator. It was possible to run any combination of these either asynchronously or triggered by the same clock. Therefore there could be prime-number beat-locked combinations of primes such as 2, 3, 5, 7 or 3, 5, 7, 11 or 5, 7, 11, 13 or some combination of those phrase lengths. If you were clever, you could get even longer phrase lengths. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://salamandersongs.com http://ill-wind.com