Loochsong
hardware:  
IBM 3081/(TSO/CMS) mainframe,
DEC PDP-11/34 (for digital audio conversion)
software:  
MIX
[NOTE: I did find a recording of this piece! It's linked on the main
music listing, yay! Below is the original commentary when I was putting
this website together]
I've got to find a recording of this piece! I recall it being really
hysterical. I had digitized a recording of
The Looch
(our dog), and had done an LPC analysis of it to create a totally
bizarre piece. The original was only 5 minutes long, and I wanted to
submit it to the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition, because
that was surely the way to great fame and fortune as a computer-music
composer. The only problem was that the Bourges Competition required pieces
that were at least 7 minutes long. So I digitally spliced in a 2 minute
stretch of a time-dilated LPC resynthesis of the Looch's howl. Of course
this was the best part of the piece.
You can get a sense of what this might have sounded like in the LPC help-patch
that comes with the
[rtcmix~]
max/msp object.