01 Gordon Pask Cybernetics Georgetown 1982 tape1 sideA
Channel: Dave Douglass
Date: 2019-09-30

Gordon Pask Cybernetics Seminar, 1982              
Georgetown U., Washington, DC

01 Georgetown 1982 tape1 sideA

Part 1 of 23. First session of Fall 1982 Georgetown series.
Self-introductions by participants. Pask's wartime service. Education at Cambridge. 1950s creation of the MusiColour cybernetic entertainment invention. Musicians becoming "unstuck in time" - comparison with engrossment in human conversation.

Original data file "pask-pangaro-18aug82 tape1-sideA.m4a"

Begins "At the University of Oregon Naval School, at Portland on top of the hill, and I was working there for about six months. – Gordon, if I can begin proceedings."

Ends "But the question is, let's suppose that you REQUIRE that you make a performance, that is to say that you are producing sound, that someone else agrees that you are playing. BUT you want..."