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World​-​Class Technology - You Can Change It All You Want

from 1983​-​2002 by Larry Wendt

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You Can Change It All You Want
My first home computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80, which was lovingly called a Trash-80 back then because of its "cheap" construction and capabilities. I however "hacked" it and added an analog-to-digital converter as well as a couple of digital-to-analog converters to get sound into and out of the thing. I also wrote programs that would fragment a spoken voice (or other sounds) and mix the order of the fragments much like I was doing mechanical with written texts and analog tape splicing. The fragments could also be filtered and placed in specific places within a stereo field. This "instrument" had a sound quality that reminded one of the sounds made by attempting to saw through a barrel of ball bearing with a hack saw. The device was portable enough that it could be taken to performances in the Bay Area and overseas with some effort. The realization of the instrument went through various iterations and "improvements" but largely still sounded very "low tech" and "raw." I ended up calling it the Audio Meat Grinder.
With my TRS-80, there was an instruction tape on how to use the early word processing application, Scripsit (which was also on an audio cassette in a digital format which one had to load via a cassette deck — which was very slow and not that reliable). This sound poem used the Scripsit instruction tape as the source material and I made use of laying down a few tracks on a tape recorder to allow for a denser-sounding piece.

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from 1983​-​2002, released May 2, 2023

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