PLATO Computer Music 1983-1985

PLATO Computer Music 1983-1985

Original Computer Music composed by Bill Schaeffer
The Moonlight Sonata, composed by Beethoven, and arranged by Bill Schaeffer

Recorded in 1985 off of the Interactive Music Synthesizer at the University of Illinois by Bill Schaeffer.

copyright 1985, 2009 William A. Schaeffer all rights reserved.

Special thanks to Dale Sinder for recording assistance.

The CD "PLATO Computer Music 1983 - 1985" by Bill Schaeffer is available at www.cdbaby.com amazon.com and itunes.com

PLATO Computer Music 1983-1985
by Bill Schaeffer
copyright (c)2009
Atwater Publishing and Wm Schaeffer

Originally recorded in 1985.

Illustrations by Nina Paley (used by permission)
Photography by George Ludwig
for The Daily Illini (used by permission) [removed for youtube -- sorry George]
Spiral Graph by Bill Schaeffer

Special thanks to:

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Department of Computer Science

Experimental Music Lab

Sherwin Gooch,
Lippold Haken

Tom Cortese,
Bill Walker,
Scott Wyatt

Kurt Hebel,
Paul Silver,
Gary Czvitkovicz

Michel Manago,
Lorraine Fitzgerald

Songlist:

00:00 Swingtime
01:47 Okinawa
03:55 The Big Song
06:24 Intergalactic Space Transport
07:41 Starglider
10:22 Minstrel Song
11:35 Giant Feathered Spaceships Buzzing Down to Earth
14:47 Cat's Eye
16:34 Slide Whistle Shenanigans
17:22 Herman, What's in the Yard?
18:27 Grind
20:00 Accordion Dance
20:54 Moonlight Sonata, 1st Movement
25:34 Celtic Memories
26:28 Schoenberg's Accordion
27:01 Close Encounters Serialized
29:10 Random Logic Wars One
29:35 Random Logic Wars Two
30:25 Long Song
34:00 Disko One - Intro
36:13 Disko Two
38:30 Disko Three
40:43 Disko Four
43:33 Disko Five
46:31 Disko Six
49:51 Disko Seven
52:20 Disko Eight - Coda

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Additional thanks to Brian L. Dear for documenting the history of PLATO. Too bad you totally left out the PLATO Music Project. Why was that?

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