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SKIFF Hit Professor Lectures On 'Electronic Music 1 fey CAROL Or. Merrill Ellis, professor of music at North Texas State University, -entertained and enlighten- ed the audience which packed the little Theatre Wednesday to bear 'his lecture on electronic music. Dr. Ellis demonstrated the three types of music he discussed Swift Visualizes House Reform OK pic" would be those representatives with a more than average interest in the petition. At the meeting, Northern an nounced Jan.

IS as -the date the referendum would be put 'before the students. According to Swift, this would give the uninformed voters a chance to bone up on the issues. He added that placing the vote right after the holidays would have done the petition more harm than good since not every one was aware of the issues involved. When the referendum does dome up. Swift stated he did not "anticipate any additions to the petition to be voted on." He emphasized the importance of this by saying any addition to the re ferendutn, such as a revised petition, would ihindcr anything being Accomplished all.

fie explained that if two petitions were voted on, there would probably ibe split in the vote with neither getting the majority needed for passage. At the 3Dec. 17 Town Hall meeting. Swift, under fire for cancell- ing the fiouse meeting in which debate of the petition was supposed to nave occurred, said tie wanted to meet with the petitioners over the holidays to iron out some of Hhe problems they were They met once, according to Swift accomplished lot At the meeting were town student leaders, dorm representatives and petitioners. By the meeting's end, they had reached two agreements.

The first was that there were recognized discrepancies in the petition. But they also decided there was a basic need for a petition of this sort. Mo Details No details were agreed upon at the meeting, hut Swift felt much had been accomplished with most everyone seeing eye to eye on the essentials concerning the petition. Throughout the interview. Swift emphasized that the House "was not pulling any strings" and was only interested in good government.

He also stated, "a Jot of actions could be taken tout are not." Swift emphasized there was no political motivation behind any of its actions and those who think so are heading down the wrong road and as far as tie is concerned keep walking. He said there was much importance behind the resolution since, reflected She genuine concern of 'the House (or good student government." Many of the representatives who voted would have to give up their seats if the passed. However, though aot a unanimous vote, the representatives, "did not reflect any reluctance in their vote," according to Swift KNOWS COUFCRS tardy breed. dub little white fealls over in weather, (but weather won this sotf sounds, which are modifications of natural sounds, pure electronic music and computer music. He emphasized that in his opinion electronic music must involve people.

"The human element of people performing on instruments is important," he said, "but there's no reason the instruments cannot be electronic." He spoke of the ISSO's and discussed those "olden days of electronic music" and gave a breakdown of the three types of music, playing a selection of each type. During his discussion of pure electronic music he played a selection called "Triolette" to lighten the program. He said the piece featured synthesized music, speaking and singing. "The poet who is singing is a very good poet, but he can't sing. Composers are the people who write do not necessarily have to write good music." The selection featured lyrics like "The good guys are all paranoid." Next Dr.

Ellis demonstrated computer music. are two approaches the computer can take," Dr. Ellis said. The computer can generate the sound or the computer can act as the brain that creates the sound." Dr. Ellis demonstrated a "song" for a 16-20 IBM computer.

"The dossest thing to a computer in our regular instruments today is an electric guitar," Dr. Ellis said. "Most people like pear- shaped sounds that have a soft attack. The computer and the electric guitar have a hard, sharp attack." A demonstration of the four types of sound saw- tooth, square and a discription of white noise, the other element of sound used in electronic music, concluded the lecture. DR.

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