[matyas]

A little-known fact was that Irix was a fairly popular platform among academic computer musicians in the 90s. We’re not talking commercial music production studios (that has always been dominated by Mac) or dj/dance music- I’m talking about the kind of people who teach composition in university music departments and create highly experimental music on usually custom software. I was in that world and knew some people who were using SGI machines, and they were generally doing the most interesting stuff. I’ll never forget when some people from Ircam (ircam.fr) showed up at the Darmstadt summer music program in 2002 and used two O2s and a Yamaha digital mixer to process a whole chamber orchestra!