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When Michael Wise sits down at a keyboard, he never knows when he will get up. The plump, bearded computer programmer often works twelve, 24, even 36 hours without a break, filling a green screen at the San Rafael, Calif., offices of Broderbund Software with words and numbers that only he and his computer completely understand. Since December, Wise has written 40,000 lines of instructions for a video game he calls Captain Goodnight, after the old Captain Midnight radio series. By the time the program is ready for release this summer, it will have grown to 50,000 lines...
...Moon which he claims. "By combining nature with art,... can take refuge at the bottom of the deep waters.") The compressed, off-beat bass and high, clipped synthesizer sound like portions of Alan Parson's robot music, but the song is infused with Steamroller-style life through the flowing keyboard lead, which sounds like a space-aged vibraphone played by a master planist (a strange coincidence, as the keyboardist is Jackson Berkey, Juliard graduate and Baldwin grand piano champion...
That may be an extreme view-as long as music is played, there will be a need for violinists, clarinetists and pianists-but the statement contains more than a little truth. Inventor Buchla, busy designing a new generation of machines in his Berkeley workshop, envisions an instrument without a keyboard at all. Moog, now in North Carolina, is "working with musicians who need instruments that don't exist." If they succeed, the future could hold an aesthetic in which unconventional sounds fall as lightly and harmoniously on the ear as the C major scale...
...move displaying a high degree of commonsense, the designers have the keyboard cord plug into the front--not the rear--of the computer. As a result, this simple improvement avoids common problems of snarled cords cluttering the desktop...
...reason for the detachable keyboard is so you can lie back and get comfortable instead of hunching over a desk. But with the mouse you have to get up and move it on the desk. I guess you can run it up and down on your thigh, but after a while it might become very endearing," he adds...