About this work:
A pioneering computer music work. The first non-commercial electroacoustic work done on the (then) new Fairlight Computer Music Instrument from Australia. Etunytude draws on the light pen drawing capability of the instrument to generate and control up to 32 harmonics with independent envelopes, along with other "between the cracks" digital techniques of this instrument. Etunytude was featured in the legendary Folkways album "Computer Music from the Outside In" and was cited, along with works from Stockhausen and Babbitt, as one of the three important representative electronic works of the 20th century in "The Humanistic Tradition" by Gloria Fiero, a widely used humanities text in 6 volumns (Brown & Benchmark).
Premiered at Univ. of Texas-Austin (1982). Perf at Mass. Col of Liberal Arts 4/23/97, San Jose State Univ (3/19/97), Recorded by Folkways Records, appears on a CD listeners guide to The Humanistic Tradition by Fiero (1992, Brown & Benchmark). Recorded on CRI CD in 1997 (CRI CD 764). Also available in an earlier version on Folkways/Smithsonian (Folkways FSS 37465 LP) through a CD one-off.
My website (where you can find my email as well)
http://www.fairpoint.net/~rainfor1/McLean_MAXMSP/Main_page.html
Phone: 518 658 3595
YouTube playlist (with 32 videos and counting)
https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3ACAB7BAD86CE7B4
Also check out my entry in Wikipedia
Although I, Barton McLean, hold the copyright, I nontheless hereby gladly authorize anyone to make copies and perform the work for noncommercial and/or educational purposes providing that my name is reasonably displayed as the composer. I do not under any circumstances authorize selecting portions of the work to appear intact in another person's composition, or to appear under any other composer's name, without my written signed authorization.
Regarding the audio file accompanying this work: I, Barton McLean own the copyright to the composition itself. Being aware that this work has been released on a commercial CD, and that the CD company might possess the copyright to that particular sound recording of the composition, I nonetheless claim copyright to this specific sound recording posted here, because it is not the exact recording released on CD. Rather, it is another mix down and revision of that work which may approximate the commercial CD in most respects but nevertheless is a distinct sound recording of which I claim the copyright.