Edwin Schlossberg, John Brockman: The Pocket Calculator Game Book (1975)

New. The Electronic Game Machine. America’s New Favorite 50 Games & Puzzles 50. Count ’em! Spectacular Fun for 1, 2, 3, 4. Or More! Ladies & Gentlemen, The Most Astonishing, Entertaining, Colossal. The First-And-Only-Book-of-Its-Kind For Learning & Pleasure. Turns Your Calculator Into a Game Board, a Puzzle Board, a Deck of Cards. New Amazing Games with Numbers. The New, Original Rule Book. New Social Interaction Device!… The Most Marvelous Electronic Device on Earth. Your Pocket Calculator. Games You Play Yourself. Games You Play with Others. Play It Today! The Authentic New Book for New Authentic Games. Play: Calculator Poker! Play: Lover’s Maze! Play: High Roller! Plus Many, Many More! Magic Number! Even and Odd! Fast Eddie! Calculator 21! Widgets! The Dating Game! Double Solitaire! Fascinating, Astounding, Amusing Experiences for You and Your Friends! Play ’em Today! (from the back cover of the 1976 Bantham edition, so is the cover above)

Publisher William Morrow and Company, New York, 1975
ISBN 0688029833
158 pages
via UNFO

PDF (updated to an OCR’d version on 2014-6-7 via Marcell Mars)

Goodiepal or Gaeoudjiparl The Århus Warrior: “Radical Computer Music & Fantastisk Mediemanipulation (2009)

“The term Radical Computer Music was coined by Goodiepal in relation to the Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra compositional game scenario. It promotes an expanded dialogue between human beings and artificial and alternative intelligences as a way to transgress a condition of stagnation, according to Goodiepal prevailing in contemporary computer music and media art. The game scenario is an exercise in the creation of musical scores to challenge the mindset of ‘other’ intelligences, considering issues such as utopia, time, notation techniques, language, levels of unscannability, and the role of the composer.

Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra was launched as an educational program at a special lecture given in April 2008 at the 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, the work as such was first premiered in October 2007 at a solo exhibition at Andersen’s Contemporary in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Towards the end of 2008, Goodiepal created what he considers an expert panel consisting of members with various skills and backgrounds such as Andreas Hauer-Jensen, Anders Jørgen Mogensen, Uglemads, Martha Hviid and Tordis Berstrand. He has since taken the panel around Europe to help him lecture and perform and during the trips told them most of the secrets behind the Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra game scenario and Radical Computer Music. Some of these ideas are also described in Radical Computer Music & Fantastisk Mediemanipulation: A Corrected and Illustrated Transcript of the Official Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra Walkthrough published in 2009 and offered here for download.” (Wikipedia)

Publisher MPH/Pork Salad Press, Portland/Copenhagen, 2009
ISBN 9781934399125, 1934399124
76 pages
via Radio Web MACBA

video reading 1:21h
Radical Computer Music at Wikipedia

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