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Beat Machine: Embracing the Creative Limitations and Opportunities of Low-Cost Computers.

The Beat Machine is a handheld music synthesizer and sequencer. The authors discuss the development of the Beat Machine and how creative constraints and opportunities were introduced by the particularities of low-cost microprocessors and associated electronics. The discussion is framed as an exempla...

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Published in:Leonardo Music Journal Vol. 30; pp. 8 - 14
Main Authors: Brown, Andrew R., Ferguson, John R.
Format: Article
Published: MIT Press Dec2020
Subjects:
Synthesizer (Musical instrument)
Rapid prototyping
Digital media
Machinery
Microprocessors
Computers
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