~~ Acclaim for SuperConductor ~~
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| "In his
SuperConductor program, Manfred Clynes has
created a unique interactive program which
enables those who use it to discover the very
nature of musical expression.... I believe this
program marks a major breakthrough in our
relationship with the essence of music! It is a
revolution and a revelation." Professor Paul Robertson
Leader of the Medici Quartet
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| "Dr. Clynes'
computer realized performances of the great
masters of the past are universally convincing.
But his acutely sensitive realizations of my own
music are no less than amazing. How, one asks, could a mere
machine make decisions about the interpretation
of my music which have eluded even the most
careful, dedicated and experienced performers?...
Clynes is a wizard whose important work must
continue!"
Donald Martino
Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music
Harvard University
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| "I have to concur
with Maestro Simon's evaluation of the
SuperConductor system...it has an unbelievably
remarkable lack of artificiality to it.... I can
only say, that I can't wait to have it available
for my own realizations. I will finally be able
to leave MIDI to mere sketching.... It is a
breakthrough of monumental proportions in
artificial music realization." Jeff Harrington
Composer
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| "That's the beauty
of these pulses. Suddenly, there's no note that's
not justified
in the
whole work."
Denis Vaughan
Concuctor
AAAS National Meeting, Boston, February 1993
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| "I am quite sure
that SuperConductor really opens a new door to
the understanding of music. My students like your
work as well. It is so exciting!" Dr. Wolfgang Mastnak
Professor of Music
Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst
"Mozarteum"
Salzburg, Austria
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| "Dr. Clynes' great
achievement is to have made emotions and their
communication respectable, recongnizably rendered
into graphs, analyzable and measurable....It is
obvious that this signal breakthrough could only
have been achieved by a musician....when the
music is allied to a penetrating intellect and
scientific insight, miracles may happen" Lord Yehudi Menuhin
Violin Virtuoso
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| "This is the first
time I have heard a program that reflects the
intentions of the performer rather than constrain
them. The sounds, timbre, phrasing, and the
transitions are all globally manipulable.
Manfred, himself a performer, has addressed the
problem of realizing a performance from an
expert's point of view. The results are
astonishing. With his accomplishments, virtuosity
becomes possible for a listener, a wondrous thing
indeed." Jerome
Lettvin
Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience & AI
MIT
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| "Manfred has
developed a wonderful tool to help people connect
to great music and get inside of it." Bill O'Connell
KDFC-FM program Director
San Francisco classical station
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| "I have been
involved with MIDI music since its inception, and
I just have to say that it's about time someone
developed a better tool for composers that would
give them access to symphonic quality output of
their sequences. Composers....have had to suffer
under the limitations of MIDI and its inherent
artificial nature. Your software is life-giving
breath to musicians everywhere! " Eric Welch
Multimedia Artist
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