Music 344—History & Literature II

All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis

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Using All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis CD-ROM:

1. Insert the All My Hummingbirds CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Open “Macintosh HD” and the Music 344 folder.)
3. In the Music 344 window, double-click the “HyperCard” icon.
4. Once HyperCard opens, click once on the button labeled “All My Hummingbirds”
5. When the Table of Contents appears, click on the name of any section to go there.

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CD-ROM Table of Contents—Annotated:

• “Program Notes”—especially valuable info on the artist, the composer, & the composition
• “A Composer's View”—audio commentary by Subotnick
• “All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis”—performance of the music
• “5 Scenes from an Imaginary Ballet”—performance of a shorter second work, derived from All My Hummingbirds, but designed especially for CD-ROM
• “About the Music”—especially valuable description of musical elements and interaction between live performers and computer
• “About the Technology”—most valuable for description of Interactor software used to control interaction between performers and computer—the rest is review if you understand MIDI

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Navigating through the program:

	Returns to the main table of contents (appears at top of screen)
	Pauses the audio (appears at center of screen, or over musical examples)
	Resumes the audio (appears at center of screen, or over musical examples)
	Move to previous page or next page (appear at left & right sides of screen)
	In All My Hummingbirds only, brings up visual options for listening to music; you can switch between Ernst's collage images, composer's commentary, or the score—score is especially helpful for following interaction between performers & computer (appears at bottom of screen)

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