The CARL System: Premises, History, and Fate

"We are spinning about ourselves like a cocoon the expressive structure of a new musical medium that is revolutionizing the ways in which music is made, and even thought about. We have a duty to ourselves to envision these new instruments with a will to their perfection. We must no longer be satisfied with merely cobbling things together from available technology if the result compromises musical expression."-(Loy 1982a)