You wrote:
Did a little reading myself and learned it's all past tense.
Interval Reserach Corp. closed it's doors April Y2K.
Lot of dreamers with impractical vision trying to turn
artistry into commodity. Plenty of the former, not enough
of the latter, I suppose!

Boombud

>Christian,
>That does sound right. I believe that Interval
>Research Corp. is funded by Paul Allen of
>Microsoft and it seems to me I remember reading
>something about Michael working with Paul Allen.

>Steve
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Christian Leduc
> To: breakdown@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:46 PM
> Subject: Breakdown | MB/patent


> Hi,

> I was "surfing" on the web and I found a page
>with a lot of US patents. I searched for
>"Sustainer" and like I thought, I found no patent
>credited to Michael about the Infinite guitar..
>All the patents for the Sustainiac, Fernandes'
>sustainer and so on were there...

> But I found something and I'm not sure if it's
>"our" Michael.. But they say in the patent
>credits: Brook, Michael, Los Angeles CA...

> Here's the link:
>
>http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US06005181__

> It looks like a midi controller of some kind...
>And I know that Michael "flirts" a lot with
>synthesizer and guitar synthesizer (GK-2A and IVL
>Pitch riders).. So maybe it is "the" Michael...

> If we go to the web site of Interval Research
>Corporation (the company in the patent), we can
>find this in the description of the corporation:

> "Founded in 1992, Interval Research Corp., Palo
>Alto, Calif., is a research setting seeking to
>define the concerns, map out the concepts and
>create the technology that will be important in
>the future. With its long-term resources,
>Interval pursues basic innovations in a number of
>pre-competitive technologies and seeks to foster
>industries around them--sparking opportunity for
>entrepreneurs and highlighting new ways of
>researching technology. To bring a fresh
>perspective, Interval has gathered a broad range
>of people to make up its research staff,
>including filmmakers, clothes designers,
>musicians, cognitive psychologists, artists,
>computer scientists, journalists and software
>developers."

> Well, I was only supposed to check out my new
>mails and it turns into that big question... :)

> But if it's "the" Michael... It's interesting
>to know that he still creates some kind of new
>instruments... or at least, he helps to create
>them...

> Best,

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