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Need we say more: Contemporary Responses to the Fairlight CMI (2020)
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Blackburn, M., Harkins, P., Puricelli, R., & Lacedelli, S. (2020, December). Need we say more: Contemporary Responses to the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, National Science & Media Museum, Bradford/Online

Often described as the first digital sampler, the Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument (CMI) was primarily a digital synthesizer and computer workstation. Launched in 1979, it was one of the technologies that were used to re-shape the practices of m... Read More about Need we say more: Contemporary Responses to the Fairlight CMI.