I'd like to thank Jim Beauchamp and Sever Tipei, the co-directors of Computer Music Studios in the School of Music at the University of Illinois, for allowing me access to its facilities. Herbert Brün has been a constant and invaluable conversation partner in this, and many other, investigations. Conversations with Michael Brün helped develop the the AMFM function in TrikTraks.
The ideas that generated wigout could not have been had without the work of Heinz von Foerster [6] and W. Ross Ashby [1].
The plots for this article were created by gnuplot version 3.5, available from the Free Software Foundation. gnuplot ran as a child process under wigout, and gave the Postscript output that was later included into this LATEX document.
I wrote wigout and TrikTraks in C, and they run under UNIX or DOS. Up till now, six compositions have been written with them: An untitled poem in 16 stanzas by Keith Moore for trombone and tape (13 minutes, 1992), A Bit, A Curve, Alas, A Wave! for tape (8 minutes, 1993), smear pulse no sneer for tape (10 minutes, 1994), 700,000 Dead for voice and tape (7 minutes, 1995), The Last Statement for voice and tape (6 minutes, 1995), and the thin, red line of subject matter for tape (6 minutes, 1995).
