Salvatore Martirano came to Mills College once to perform on the SAL-MAR Construction. He set it up in the afternoon and then left for dinner. Larry Polansky and I were charged with the task of guarding the machine until he returned. Larry and I admired the control panel which consisted of a complex pattern of touch sensitive rings with lights in the middle. Nothing was labelled so we had no way of figuring out how it worked. Despite our better judgement, we gave in to the temptation to poke a few buttons to see what would happen. We soon had lights flashing on the panel and exquisite sequences of beep and bloops erupting from the loudspeakers. Expecting Sal to return at any moment, we frantically tried to stop what we had started. By poking at lights as they turned on, we eventually managed to get the box to almost be quiet. Only an occasional flashing light on the panel revealed some activity deep within. At this point Sal returned from dinner and we hoped he wouldn't notice the occasional light flash. Unfortunately, however, the box seemed to be in a state where it would spontaneously emit a short burst of loud beeps every few minutes. Caught red handed, we sheepishly confessed. Sal quickly put the box to sleep with a few pokes. He then forgave us, no doubt realizing that it would have taken super human will power for computer music geeks like us to resist such temptation.