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“Jazz Strains” article by Erica Chase profiling Craig Huxley’s career shift, published in New Scientist magazine, July 1987.
“Marching to a Different Ratio.” Computer Music Journal, Vol. II No. 2, pages 7–8. Review of xenharmonic publications Xenharmonikon and Interval, with discussion of just intonation and alternative tuning systems.
“Preludes.” Computer music article from Datamation magazine, page 132. Discusses electronic music history from Thaddeus Cahill to contemporary composers including Pierre Boulez, Paul Lansky, and Charles Dodge.
Alex Ross. ‘When All Is Synthesis, There Are No Categories.’ The New York Times, January 23, 1993.
Amy Lee. ‘India’s Music Rides High: A Rage for the Raga.’ Christian Science Monitor, August 23, 1968.
Arielle Emmett. ‘The New Sound of Computerized Music.’ Personal Computing, July 1983.
Article excerpt on Terry Riley’s Time Lag Accumulator experimental sound installation, featuring equipment specifications, design schematics, and delay-relay program details.
Article from BYTE Magazine. ‘Litigation vs. Innovation.’ September 1990, page 520.
Beyond Temperament: non-keyboard intonation in the 17th and 18th centuries. Bruce Haynes, in Early Music, August 1991, p. 357
Chris Forster. ‘Chrysalis.’ Interval Journal, Vol. 1, pp. 1–3.
Compressed Air Magazine. ‘Computer Music.’ October 1989, pp. 26–28. Explores harmonic synthesis, performance control systems, and the integration of electronic instruments in classical music institutions.
Computer Becomes and Instant Orchestra.
Computer Music Association. “Live or Taped? Real or Unreal Time?” CMA Array, Vol. 10 No. 3, circa 1990.
Concert Review, “Microtonal” by Newband, 29 April, 1982
David H. Ahl. ‘Four Computer Records.’ Creative Computing, February 1979.
Don Muro. ‘Computer Music Systems.’ International Musician, February 1983.
Donald Byrd. An Integrated Computer Music Software System. Indiana University, March 1977.
Doty, David. Instruere. Ear Magazine, July/August, 1978, p.4
Edward Rothstein. ‘Composers Study Realms Beyond the 12-Tone Scale.’ The New York Times, December 26, 1986.
Edward Rothstein. ‘La Monte Young Band Explores Sonic Space.’ The New York Times, January 12, 1993.
Elizabeth Corcoran. ‘Electronic Music Gains a Human Touch.’ Scientific American, July 1991, p. 111.
Exploratorium Cookbook III, A Construction Manual for Exploratorium Exhibits. Author, Ron Hipschman
Gann, Kyle. “Ain’t Misbehavin’ Bang on a Can American Festival of Microtonal Music” The Village Voice, 26 April 1994, pp. 86-87
Gann, Kyle. “Notes from the Underground: American Festival of Microtonal Music” Village Voice, 6 June 1989, p. 80.
Gonsalves, Bob. Either / Or. Ear Magazine, 1978
Ivor Darreg. ‘All Systems Go.’ Xenharmonic Frontier. 1990s.
Joel Mandlebaum. The Isolation of the Microtonal Composer. ASUC Vol. 2, 1967.
John Philip Sousa. ‘The Menace of Mechanical Music.’ Computer Music Journal, originally published in Appleton’s Magazine, September 1906. Edited by Curtis Rhodes.
Julie J. Rehmeyer. ‘The Machine’s Got Rhythm: Computers Learning to Understand Music.’ Scientific American, April 2007.
Kevin Jones. ‘Music Is Food for Thought in Computers.’ New Scientist, March 5, 1981.
Keyboard Magazine. Frog Peak HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) Amiga software review, February 1988.
Kimball, Buzz. Non-Twelve Scales for DX 7 11D. Novosonics. 1987
Kimball, Buzz. Novosonics 1200 ct. Hex 16 Bit Tables, Handwritten Notes. 1987\
Kozinn, Allan. “A Festival of All Those Notes in Between” The New York Times, 08 May 1988, Section 2, p. 21.
LA Times Calendar: ‘Sound’ Show at Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA)
Los Angeles Times. ‘John Schneider Explores Different Sounds.’ Music review, June 10, 1991.
Matthew Kiel. ‘Easley Blackwood.’ OMNI Magazine, undated.
Max V. Mathews and John R. Pierce. ‘The Computer as a Musical Instrument.’ Scientific American, Vol. 255, No. 2, February 1987.
Pages 1 and 4 from CLEM (Canadian Electronic Music publication), 1986, containing album and cassette reviews and pricing information.
Paul Berliner. ‘John Kunaka, Mbira Maker.’ Article documenting the craft of mbira construction and tuning among the Shona people of Zimbabwe, 1971–1972.
Pressing, Jeff. Tuning System Design: On Trying to Ask the Right Questions. 1979
Scan of photos of instruments by Buzz Kimball, from Building a Microtonal Orchestra. Interval, Winter 1982/1983
Siem Terpstra. A Colour Code For Steel Guitar Fretboards in 31-Equal. Page 1 of 5.
Siemen Terpstra. ‘Novel Tuning Utilities Software for Digital Synths.’ Page 1 of article on 53-ET tuning systems adapted for polyphonic keyboards.
Simson L. Garfinkel. ‘On Computer Gibberish.’ The Christian Science Monitor.
Stefan B. Lipson. ‘The Commodore Amiga: The Micro Alternative.’ Music Technology, November 1987.
Stephan Lipsom. ‘The Commodore Amiga: The Micro Alternative.’ Music Technology, 1987.
Stephan Lipson. ‘The Commodore Amiga: The Micro Alternative.’ Music Technology, 1987.
Tim Page. “Offbeat Music Thrives in Loft Settings.” The New York Times, October 10, 1980.
Tom Wieder. ‘From Renaissance Music to Whales: Peninsulans’ Computer Plays It All.’ Monterey Peninsula Herald, May 29, 1979.
Tozian, Gregory. “Harry Partch: The Dreamer Whose Instruments Still Remain” Organica Magazine, Summer 1989
Warren Burt. ‘A Year of Collaborations on Friday.’ Sounds Australian, no. 32, 1998.
Warren Burt. ‘Adventures in Scale Generation Along a Wilsonian Path, Part 1.’ 1/1 Magazine, Volume 9 Number 3, Summer 1996.
Wendy Carlos. Article on composer and her work with electronic music, unconventional tunings, and the album Beauty in the Beast.
Wendy Carlos. Electronically Modified Music, February 1988, page 11. Letter discussing Emmett Chapman’s Stick technique and microtonal Alpha tuning approximations.
Woodard, Josef. New Musical Expressionists. Los Angeles Reader, March 9, 1984, pp. 1, 8–11.

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