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French Composers Pierre Barbaud, 50, and Roger Blanchard, 43, have a peculiar ambition: they want to make composers obsolete. They have worked long and hard to create a composing machine as versatile as the one that swamped the masses with mollifying melodies in George Orwell's fantasy, 1984. Last week French teenagers were dancing to the catchy theme for the new Paris hit film Chronique d'un Eté, which had been dreamed up in the electronic brain of an Orwellian monster otherwise known as Binary Digital Computer Gamma Three...
Borrowed from France's biggest calculator manufacturer, it was "instructed" by Barbaud and his friend Blanchard in theory, harmonics and chromatics-i.e., they crammed the circuits of its electronic memory with all the knowledge necessary for composition. Now Gamma knows the mathematical rules by which chords are combined into musical compositions. It understands only a vocabulary of numbers and letters, so all the essentials must first be fitted with a coded description. Fed with the necessary information, and given instructions relating to the key of the composition, its length, and the number of instruments, Gamma Three then attacks...
Because both Barbaud and Blanchard are modernists, much influenced by Schoenberg, they have instructed Gamma in the twelve-tone scale so that it can spew forth Schoenbergian chamber works on punched tape with confidence and ease. Says Barbaud: "They are in some respects better, artistically as well as technically, than some of Schoenberg's works...
...last two games were carnage incarnate. The Yankees scored 20 runs on 26 hits, including seven doubles, a triple and two home runs (by Reserve Outfielders Hector Lopez and John Blanchard). The Reds, on the other hand, continued to swoon at the very sight of Yankee pitching. Outfielders Vada Pinson (.343 season average) and Frank Robinson (.323) managed only five hits between them in five games. Poker-faced Pitcher Ford extended his string of scoreless World Series innings to 32, and broke Babe Ruth's favorite record. For a team that had every right to crow, the Yankees were...
...Yankees are undoubtedly the strongest-hitting Yankee team since 1939 -when Joe DiMaggio, Charley Keller, Bill Dickey & Co. lowered the boom on hapless Cincinnati in the World Series, won in four straight games. Only three players hit over .300-Elston Howard (.353), Mickey Mantle (.317) and Johnny Blanchard (.305)-but Roger Maris slammed a record 61 home runs, Mantle hit 54, and no fewer than six Yankees hit 20 or more. So powerful was the Yanks' new Murderers' Row that First Baseman Bill Skowron (28 homers) found himself batting seventh in the lineup...