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This paper was presented at the International Computer Music Conference, in Urbana, Illinois, August, 1987. Gary Grossman was the primary architect and programmer for the original version of Sawdust, and worked on the project from approximately 1972 until 1980. He had been a music composition student at the University of Illinois since the early 1960s, and had continued his work as a composer, performer, and programmer.

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Mathews, M. V., The Technology of Computer Music, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1969.

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... Abbott;³

Loy, G., and Abbott, C., ``Programming Languages for Computer Music Synthesis, Performance, and Composition'', ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 17, no. 2, June 1985, pp. 244-250.

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... Abbott⁴

Ibid.

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...Sawdust⁵

Blum, T., ``Herbert Brün: Project Sawdust'', Computer Music Journal, March 1979, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 6-7.

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