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...perhaps the canning of the tomato represents an even more basic need. Perhaps man must simply be continually manipulating his environment, rearranging things, transferring them from one state to another. In this way man receives feedback. It is his way of talking to himself. As we push our carts down the colorful supermarket aisles the products are whispering to us, mumbling the messages we have instructed them...
Three years ago, people would go out and comment on how horrible the hospitals were; now they come out and say. "I thought it would be worse." I don't know whether the hospitals have changed that much or whether the case-aides have gotten feedback--they'd been told how horrible the hospitals are and see that they aren...
Musically, Burton plans next to experiment by combining a string quartet with his ensemble. And the other liberated spirits assembled by him have just as many odd new ideas as the leader. Coryell, who likes to incorporate the drone of amplifier feedback into his solos, is seeking new electronic effects such as "a very quiet fuzz tone that suggests a little radio turned up as far as it goes. I see a lot of beauty in distortion...
...bass plunges and thumps. The guitars buzz with electronic feedback...
Bode has been with the Bell Laboratories for 41 years. In 1948-49, he was visiting fellow at Princeton. He is the author of Network Analysis and Feedback Amplifier Design (1945), and holds several patents on electrical engineering and systems design...