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The illusion ofmoving sound sources is thus projected from the surrounding environment given by four loud-speakers on the stereo-basis.STRIA was composed using Chowning’s own program to compile the musical structure into note-lists and MUSIC 10 (by D. Poole\/Tovar) to generate the sounds in software-synthesis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe original quadrophonic version utilized 12 bits, two different sampling rates being used to accommodate the enormous amount of data on the magnetic disc-packs available at that time. The original sound-data was processed by sampling-rate conversion and digital mixes to achieve the stereoversion presented on this CD.SABELITH and TURENAS were synthesized originally using Smiths’ SCOREand MUSIC 10. 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With the help of Max Mathews of BellTelephone Laboratories and David Poole of Stanford in 1964 he set up acomputer music program using the computer system of Stanford’sArtificial Intelligence Laboratory. This was the first implementation of an on-line computer music system ever.In 1967, John Chowning discovered the frequency modulation (FM)algorithm in which both carrier-frequency and the modulating-frequencyare within the audio band. This breakthrough in the synthesis oftimbres allowed a very simple yet elegant way of creating and controlling time-varying spectra.Over the next six years he worked toward turning this discovery into a system of musical importance. 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