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