sounds and images for special topics) and of proceedings and the like in electronic form. It strives to collaborate with institutions dedicated to the establishment of standards as and also with existing societies dedicated to Computer Music or aspects of it, as well as to serve as a reference point for instrument manufacturers and for the music industry.

Past activity of the IEEE CS

In a general sense, this Technical Committee has been in existence, in the form of a group of contributors to the field and of interested people, for over two years, and has produced: the special July 1991 issue of COMPUTER dedicated to Computer Generated Music with the associated audio Compact Disk and cassette - the first time the CS Press has published audio material; and the book Readings in Computer Generated Music, the first of a series of hard-cover tutorials, published in August 1992.

All these publications, including the new CD-ROM 'An Intelligent Musical Workstation', are still available from the IEEE CS Press, 10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, PO Box 3014, Los Alamitos, CA 90720-1264, USA,

 fax # 714-821-4661, e-mail: cs.books@computer.org.

This lecture, which was held in Osnabrück at the KlangArt on May 27, 1993, in the German language, described some of the projects whose results have been published in the special issue of Computer, and discussed the music pieces by commenting them at the time they were played. What follows is a written abstract of the lecture. Its reading should ideally be complemented by an audition of the compact disk of above.

The projects of the special issue of IEEE COMPUTER dedicated to Computer Generated Music

These are research projects in Computer Science. The results are to be interpreted in the same way as those of projects in, say, software engineering. None of the authors claims to have the solution of the musical problem he is describing, in a musical sense, but claims to contribute to the computational discipline of application of computer techniques to music and musicology with his effort.

Nevertheless it was desired to belie once and for all the impression that sounds obtained with computer techniques are akin to the noises of a sawmill and not to music - as it was often the case for certain laboratory experiments of the past. What has been recorded on the CD, however, succeeds, we claim - without trying to hide its elec-