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                      ⊗⊗CCRMA ARCHIVE PROJECT⊗
                           Lynne Toribara
                           321-6635 (home)
                           497-9362 (work)




The Center for  Computer Research in  Music and Acoustics  (CCRMA) at


Stanford University houses a  growing body of materials  dealing with


various aspects of computer composition.

A  quick inventory  turned up  appoximately 40  sound tapes  of works


completed at  CCRMA, 50  unidentified sound  tapes sent  from outside


sources,  300  magnetic  tapes  of  machine  readable   data  (mostly


unidentified),  40  CCRMA publications  (in-house,  journal articles,


dissertations,  etc.), and  numerous other  non-CCRMA  miscellanea --


articles,  papers, scores  and  reports on  realisations  of computer


compositions,  programming  language  manuals,  and   computer  music


programs (descriptions, and code)

The purpose of this project  is to organize the above materials  in a


way which will be useful to the CCRMA community and to those who wish



to access their  resources.  The main users  of this archive  will be


composers  who want  to demonstrate  the computer's  capabilities and


display their compositions, students and faculty wishing  to research


papers on various aspects of computer composition, and radio stations


who want copies of compositions to play for their listeners.

The first, and most important step in this process is to identify and


describe the items in the collection.  The  description (particularly


the access  points) will involve  a good deal  of imagination  on the


part  of  the  cataloguer,  since  the  headings  and classifications


provided by LC are not specific enough to be useful to anyone  with a


minimal knowledge of the  field of computer music. The  main problem,


then, will be to develop a description which will be  informative and


helpful to  the general public  as well as  specialists in  the field


while still being compatible  with formats already established  by LC


(and therefore familiar to library users)