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AT THE HOME OF IVOR DARREG, 1280 EXPOSITION BOULEVARD,

Los Angeles 7, Calif. Near Normandie avenue,

on #18 Bus Line. Telephone REpublic 2-9341.

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We say "Special" because this is not part of our regular series of meetings. Also, our motives are different this time.

The subject will be Automatically Performed Music, and what we can do to, with, and about it.

We will play the recent L-P record of the RCA Music Synthesizer and discuss what is right, as well as what is wrong, about it. No, this doesn't mean you have to hear the whole thing through before commenting on it. Your remarks will be wanted where they apply, not after you've forgotten what place on the record needed remark.

Since there are regular nusical instruments here, as well as other phonograph records, we can make direct Comparison between the synthesized tones and conventional Musical sounds.

We are holding this on two evenings instead of one because we realize that some who could come on one date might not be able to come on the other. If you cannot make either date, but still want to hear the record, phone us and we might arrange something.

As we have told you before, artists in other fields, as painting, sculpture, etc., can express themselves to the public directly. Composers should have this right, too. Some music, such as any operatic aria, is written to be interpreted by another person--but other music, such as a Bach fugure, is not.

There has been great progress since the heyday of player-pianos and music-boxes. This synthesizer record does not sound so "mechanical." However, out of the dozens of methods of producing music now possible, there must be means more congenial to composers and arranger than the method used to make the record. That is why we are having discussions--so we can do better. Now is the time for serious work in this field. Strange as it may seem, progress with automatically-performed music may help progress in machine language translation and electronic computers, and vice versa. But don't get us wrong--this is NOT in any way a plea for robot composing! Composing will still be through creativity and inspiration.