L'Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges: Synthese 97 and Synthese 98.(Review)

L'Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges: Synthese 97 and Synthese 98

CD-ROMs, 1998/1999; Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique--Bourges, Place Andre Malraux, BP 39, 18001 Bourges Cedex, France; telephone (+33) 2-48-20-41-87; fax (+33) 2-48-20-45-51; electronic mail imebourges@gmeb.fr; World Wide Web www.gmeb.fr

The Synthese 97 and Synthese 98 CD-ROMs are summaries of the events from the Festival International des Musiques et Creations Electroniques. Each contains good information, but the contents may not be easy to access. I found two obstacles to using these discs. First, getting into the material is too tricky. There is no executable file that runs the program. To gain access to the disc, the user must open the index.htm file and then click on the image that appears. That brings up another page of information with a link at the ...