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can be moved into the EMS or left in the computer room. The con
nections to and from the computer are made from a patch panel located
near the synthesizers.
The EMS itself is a high quality analog/tape studio. It was
founded on a shoe string in 1968 by Morton Subotnich. Since that
time it has grown in size, complexity and sophistication under such
composers as Kenneth Gaburo,.Gerald Shapito, Frank McCarty, and most
recently Robert Morris, the present director. It now includes a
modern mixing facility (18 in/4 out), Scully and 3M two and four track
tape recorders, large ARP and Buchla synthesizers, a Buchla X-Y spatial
location mixer, portable Moog and Putney synthesizers as well as an
array of other devices for the generation and modification of sound.
The Pitt Computer Center (PCC) is a very well-run, time-sharing
and batch processing facility that serves the entire university com
munity. Our 11/03 is connected to the PCC via dial-up lines that run
at either 300 or 1200 baud. Although our methods for paying for the
PCC services are somewhat unusual, we share with most universities a
policy of providing free computing for all teaching and research
purposes.
Now, how are we using our facility and what are our plans for the
future? We have had the 11/03 system since June 1978 and have spent
the summer developing programs that drive our DAC's. We program largely
in Fortran using, to the extent we can, a package of subroutines sup
plied by the vendor to drive the various I/O devices. Robin Nicklas-a
graduate student in music theory, Robert Morris and I are doing the
programming.
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