NMA #6

Rainer Linz (Editor). NMA #6. Brunswick, Australia: NMA Publications. 1987-89? Staple bound soft cover. 56 pages. Color covers with b&w contents. Very Good. Minor creasing at edge and rubbing to covers. Amanda Baker. Computer music aesthetics: a composer's predicament. p3Warren Burt. Samples III for computer processed orchestra sounds. p7Philip Brophy. Sounding & Sampling. p15Alistair Riddell. Towards a virtual piano action. p18Chris Mann. On not having read Think - or perish! Towards a confident and productive Australia, By Donald Horne, Commission for the Future Occasional Paper. p24 Stelarc. Beyond the body. p27Greg Schiemer. Monophonic Varations. p31Mark Rudolph. Notes on sociological and methodological stance with respect to music. p37Cindy John. Computers - performance of, and with. p39C.H. Dick. A digital signal processor for the real-time processing of sound. p41Graeme Gerrard, R.P. Harris, and David Hirst. Perspectives. p48 Australian experimental music magazine with a diverse focus, encompassing sound poetry, noise, computer music, homemade instruments, and composition. Features such notables as Trevor Wishart, Warren Burt,Pauline Oliveros, Chris Mann, Andrée Greenwell, etc.Co-founded by Rainer Linz & Richard Vella in 1982. Graeme Gerrard, Drew Cottle, John Gillies, Noel Sanders,Aline Scott-Maxwell, Alistair Riddell, Fran Dyson andRoss Bolleter also contributed to the editing of this magazine, "NMA Publications (New Music Articles) was formed with Richard Vella in 1982, having the aim of encouraging musicians, composers and sound artists to write about their work as a way of informing the general public, and creating wider musical debate. Along with a number of book, cassette and limited edition publications, NMA magazine issues 1-10 were published between the years 1982 - 92.".…