1972
Fall 1967. Composer James Tenney conducts a workshop on FORTRAN programming with the following participants: Phil Corner, Dick Higgins, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Max Neuhaus and Steve Reich. The workshop takes place at Alison Knowles and Dick Higgins’s apartment in New York. Tenney was a composer in residence at Bell Labs from 1961 to 1964 and then at the Polytechnic institute of Brooklyn.
The poem is generated by James Tenney using the language FORTRAN IV and the computer from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. At the time, it is entitled Proposition N°2 for Emmett Williams. 50 pages are printed.
A special edition of The House of Dust is published by Gebr König Verlag in Cologne. It is generated by the Siemens Systems. A series of postcards made of an image or an object associated with a quatrain are also published.
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