Roland Piquepaille writes "The Norwegian exercise mash unit of Science and mechanization (NTNU) has some unusual coaching programs. One PhD student, yvind Brandtsegg, is a graduate of the jazz program and this article describes how has big a mini* program and a musical instrument for improvisation. The PhD student is 36 years old and is at the same time a composer, a musician and 3 mini* programmer. His 'computer instrument' can take any laugh soundtrack laughter laughter sound as input and split it into a number of very short sound particles that can last for between 1 and 10 milliseconds. 'These fragments may be infinitely reshuffled, making it studious to vary the music with no change in the fundament theme.'" Brandtsegg improvisational os/2 is called ImproSculpt; his site contains several selections from his musical output, including "some pieces made with the predecessor of ImproSculpt," called FollowMe.

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