Cybertext, Collaboration, and the Beatles
Appendix: Toward a taxonomy of interactions with machines

The Take: A single live performance of music or text recorded with machines, usually for use in a larger composition

Inappropriate Input: Using as a sound or text source something other than a take

Mixing Contexts: If the same tape recorder or word processor is used for widely different types of takes - entirely different genres of music or writing - why not mix the genres?

Exploiting the Location: The technology allows one to capture perfect takes, irrespective of the location of the studio. Recording or writing on location, with a willingness to let the location influence the take, can destabilize the take.

Abusing the equipment: In the passion of creation, this is likely to happen, but why not make it happen in specific ways

The Keeper: A take that is exceptional such that it all but rules out further takes

The Glitch: An unintended mistake that is kept in. Her Majesty

Aleotoric Methods: Prevents arguing between collaborators, opens one up to the possibilities of the glitch and the Keeper

The Cover Up: A weakness in one of the takes leads to embellishment adding to the composition in unexpected ways

Salvaging Material: Collaging in waste from the srtistic process, such as the untitled number on the White Album