Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC October 1965 Daily Egyptian 1965 10-30-1965 The aiD ly Egyptian, October 30, 1965 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_October1965 Volume 47, Issue 30 Recommended Citation , . "The aiD ly Egyptian, October 30, 1965." (Oct 1965). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1965 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in October 1965 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SIU Alumni Contribute To the Arts DAILY EGYPTJA~ Octob". 30, 1965 SIU alumni, many of whom are back on campus this Homecoming Day, are making significant contributions to the arts•. At the SIU Alumni same time they are earning national and inter­ national notice. They are actors. painters. stage designers, photographers, opera singers, sculptorr. and Contribute writers of Wide repute. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Lewis Taylor, a Carbondale native, is one of them. Taylor, a world traveler as well as a To the Arts widely known writer, has cycled across Europe, visited the Fiji Islands and has lived with a native family in Tahiti. The manuscript of one of his novels• .. Journey to Matecumbe," is in the Morris Library. Others, somewhat more typical of SIU alumni and their successes: Ed Mitchell. once a stage-struck Carbon­ dale hoy, is now senior set deSigner for CBS television studios in New York City. His current assignments are daytime 'serials, "The Guiding Light" and "The Secret Storm." Stage and film actor C alvin Bartlett (George Worrell) has appeared in television episodes of the "Kraft Suspense Theater," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Perry Mason." He has worked in stage productions of <'South PacifiC." "The Man Who Came [0 Dinner" and "The Diary of Anne Frank." Ken Swofford. another former SIU actor. appeared in the motion pictures "Father Goose" and "Captain Newman;" and on tele­ Vision in "Surfside Six" and "77 Sunset Strip." Photographer Frank Salmo, who graduated last winter. worked for United Press Inter­ national in New York City. then went to Europe where he has been doing free-lance work. Examples of his work are on page 4. Many other alumni who are not actually working full-time in the arts are teaching the arts. At least one. sculptor W. Robert Young­ man, does both. He is chairman of the Art Department at Anderson College. and his own work appears regularly in major galleries. He is also represented in collections such as those IN LlTERATURE-Puliizer Prize-winner Robert Lewis of Joseph Pulitzer Jr., the St. Louis Museum Taylor, author of 10 booles, including the award­ of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Art. winning "The Travels of jaimie McPheeters." 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Page" DAILY EGYPllAM October 30, 1965 SIU Alumni Contribute To the Arts SEEH IH BARCELOHA AH ITItLIAH WOODLAHD ..1• IN PHOTOGRAPHY - Frank Salmo, who for the time has settled with his wife in Stock­ holm, has been making pictures like these in Europe. October 30. 1965 DAILY EGYPTIAN P09_5 Automation in the Orchestra Pit Computerized Music Hath Charms, Too By Thomas B. Sherman In George 'Orwell's "1984:' music for string ensemble; vibrations. All the other notes what your country can do for a novel that described the and the American Harry in the tune would be similar­ you; ask what you can do for complete degradation of a fully Panch has divided the oc­ ly produced by controlling the your country," and a series mechanized society, all the tave into 43 steps. vibrations. The computer, of vibrations per second. With popular songs were composed The public, however, has when so controlled, makes a these words as a basis for by machines. The song, as weli shown no inclination to follow series of impre'lsions on a melodic tone-rows the com­ as the singer, had been the composers who use more tape that can be played back puter worked out a fugal com­ diYorced from all human than 12 tones in an octave. on a machine roughly similar position. origins and in consequence the Whether this is the conse­ to a record player. In doing so she directed the homely experiences of life quence of habit or an inabil­ But every instrument, in­ computer to compose a free­ were no longer the source and ity of the ear to make sen­ cluding the human voice, has fugue according to a certain inspiration of m u sic a I sible distinctions between a different quality. For in­ design making use of mathe­ creation. fractionalized divisions is a stance, a trumpet, a French matical group theory. Rhyth­ When Orwell wrote his ter­ matter of conjecture. Most horn and a flute can p~ay at miC patterns were derived rifying opus no existing listeners are likely to be­ the same pitch but each will by computer analysis of the machine was capable of com­ lieve that the instrument is have a quality or timbre of data. Again to put it simply, posing music, even though flat, or sharp, when it moves its own. What causes this when given data and a struc­ many apparatuses were filling in quarter-tone or smaller qualitative difference? tural pattern it may be said the air with sounds that rough­ steps. Accoustical scientists be­ that the computer composes ly approximated music. Since Mother Padberg, however, ginning with Pythagoras dis­ music. then the computer has arrived; is not thinking of audience covered that a plucked string, A knowledge of mathemat­ and the computer can do any­ reaction at this point. Her for instance, vibrates as a ics and the processes of a thing. It can solve in a few experiments with computer whole and in all of its parts. computer are necessary in seconds mathematical prob­ music are concernedimmedi­ As a consequence a plUcked order to understand how this lems that would stagger the ately with working out pat­ string gives off many sounds is done. So I suggest that whole faculty of the Massa­ terns of sound that demon­ but the strongest one-known eve r y non-mathematical chusetts Institute of Technol­ strate the possibilities of the as the fundamental-is the reader should accept certain ogy. It can store in its "mem­ computer; but beyond that is prominent one and establishes bask assumptions on faith. ory" all the pertinent andim­ the conception of a new mu­ the identity of the pitch. The Mother Padberg can demon­ pertinent facts of human Sic which be wholly free from weaker sounds are called strate the results of her ex­ history. the limitations of the diatonic overtones or upper panials. periments and she foresees scale. The variation in strength­ the computer's utility as an So it is hardly surprising Toward that end she has or loudness-of the overtones aid to, rather than a substi­ that it can compose music. made the computer turn out is what determines the qual­ tute for, the composer. Mother Harriet Ann Pad­ canons and fugues employing ity of the sound; and it is this This is reassuring. The de­ berg, associate professor of velopment of music without mathematics and music at the intervals that no ordinary in­ variation that determines the strument could sound. A canon special character of t~e flute, the aid of a compute.. or Maryville College of the Sa­ is roughly the same as a the violin, the human voice any mech.mical device bears a cred Hean, has been "round" such as "Row. Row or any other instrument. close relation to the emotion­ chaperoning the musical ex­ al experience of human beings. ercises of a computer for sev­ Your Boat" or "Three Blind Further complications such Mice." Two or more voices as a change in pitch of the N(~vertheless an electronic eral years and has induced device that could take a theme, many interesting-if not ex­ sing the same melody but fundamental, have L'een noted each one enters at a dif­ in experiments by accoustlcal or a tone row, and put it actly endearing results. ferent time so that when four experts, but in the interest of through its paces could dem­ Mother Padberg did re­ or five singers join in the simplicity these can be dis­ onstrate its possibilities as search in computer studies group is producing something regarded. Speaking approx­ the material for a rondQ or under the direction of Dr.