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...extremely compact computer components. In a recent demonstration at their Murray Hill, N.J., headquarters, the Bell scientists showed that a thin crystal, only one-tenth of an inch square, could carry 10,000 bits of information. Even the tiniest conventional computer circuitry, explained Bell Labs Vice President Jack A. Morton, is able to achieve only 10% of that density. In addition, the crystals need just a fraction of the power required by ordinary computers...
...then transforming them electronically (musique concrete), or starting from scratch with an electronic sound synthesizer like the Moog (TIME, March 7). Electronic composers "write" on tape; their music was never intended for the traditional concert hall. "The trouble with the concert hall," says California's electronic composer Morton Subotnick, "is that it requires a social and theatrical esthetic that really has nothing to do with our music." Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen, who today works primarily in the electronic idiom, agrees: "I make everything for stereo records. The record is the document of how I want my music...
...GREGORY MORTON Los Angeles...
...late 1870s, the ruling Kabaka welcomed the Anglican and Catholic missionaries who followed Explorer Henry Morton Stanley. But after the old king's death, the ruler's dissolute heir did not; the young man resented the fact that his Christian pages refused his homosexual advances. Finally, egged on by a jealous Prime Minister, the Kabaka determined to crush the new religion, and in one bloody, 15-month period, beginning in 1885, ordered the murders or executions of 22 Catholics and at least 23 Anglicans. Paul declared the Catholic martyrs saints...
...jazz had died when the red-light district was closed in 1917. They assumed that all the jazz musicians were out of work and either went north to Chicago or New York, or gave up music entirely. Many great musicians did go north--King Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong. The New Orleans music they took with them began its metamorphosis in the 20's and 30's, evolving into swing and big band dance music, and later into bop and progressive jazz. Most collectors in the 40's thought that the traditional black jazz of New Orleans...