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EMUSIC-L Digest                                      Volume 59, Issue 09

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	Music beyond Imagination (6 messages)

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Date:         Thu, 23 Dec 1993 14:53:53 GMT
From:         cliff 
Subject:      Music beyond Imagination

I thought some of you would enjoy the section "Music Beyond Imagination"
in the book: Pickover, C. (1992) Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the
Unexpected. St. Martin's Press: NY.

Sample topics: strange music machines and musical scores, algorithms
for music, ink splattered scores, chess music, mozart numbers,
strange musical patents, music from genetics sequences, Bach's
impossible violin,  etc.

Thanks

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Date:         Thu, 23 Dec 1993 15:15:25 EST
From:         David Lunney 
Subject:      Re: Music beyond Imagination

People in our research group have mapped infrared spectra and
into electronic music, and the results are wild.  If anybody
is interested in a file containing the MIDI notes for the patterns,
I can send it to you. Please note that the files contain only the
MIDI note numbers and note durations.  You have to figure a way
to make your synth play them. (We have used a Yamaha DX-7, and
more recently switched to the Sound Blaster. The SB is pretty
limited as a musical instrument, but it does OK for these simple,
mostly one-note patterns.)

David Lunney
Department of Chemistry and
Science Institute for the Disabled
East Carolina University
Greenvlle, NC 27858 USA
VOICE: 919-757-6713  919-758-6453
FAX: 919-757-6210
CHLUNNEY@ECUVM1.BITNET
CHLUNNEY@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU

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Date:         Fri, 24 Dec 1993 19:24:56 EST
From:         Larry R Larson 
Subject:      Re: Music beyond Imagination

I'd love to have a look at the files.

Thanks

lrlarson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu

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Date:         Sat, 25 Dec 1993 17:37:48 EST
From:         David Lunney 
Subject:      Re: Music beyond Imagination

      The following musical patterns were generated from spectra
      and chromatograms using an algorithm developed by Robert C.
      Morrison and David C. Sowell, East Carolina University,
      Greenville, NC, USA.  Time durations are relative: 1 = whole,
      0.5 = half, and so on.  For details of the algorithm, contact
      David Lunney  at CHLUNNEY@ECUVM1 (bitnet).

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      MIDI notes generated from infrared spectrum of 1-propanol.

      Section 1: play twice.
      MIDI #    NOTE     Relative Duration
       81       A  6          1.000
       80       G# 6          1.000
       80       G# 6          1.000
       68       G# 5          1.000
       67       G  5          1.000
       64       E  5          0.500
       59       B  4          1.000
       58       A# 4          1.000
       56       G# 4          1.000
       53       F  4          0.500
       52       E  4          0.500
       41       F  3          1.000

      Section 2: play 3X.
      MIDI #    NOTE     Relative Duration
       80       G# 6          0.250
       81       A  6          0.250
       80       G# 6          0.250
       59       B  4          0.250
       68       G# 5          0.250
       58       A# 4          0.250
       56       G# 4          0.250
       67       G  5          0.250
       41       F  3          0.250
       64       E  5          0.250
       53       F  4          0.250
       52       E  4          0.250

      Section 3 (chord): play once. Relative duration = 1
       52, 53, 64, 41, 67, 56, 58, 68, 59, 80, 81, 80.


======================================================================

      MIDI notes generated from IR spectrum of ethanol.

      Section 1: play twice.
      MIDI #    NOTE     Relative Duration
       81       A  6          1.000
       79       G  6          1.000
       79       G  6          1.000
       62       D  5          0.500
       61       C# 5          1.000
       60       C  5          0.500
       58       A# 4          0.500
       52       E  4          1.000
       50       D  4          1.000
       41       F  3          1.000

      Section 2: play 3X.
      MIDI #    NOTE     Relative Duration
       50       D  4          0.250
       81       A  6          0.250
       79       G  6          0.250
       52       E  4          0.250
       79       G  6          0.250
       41       F  3          0.250
       61       C# 5          0.250
       62       D  5          0.250
       60       C  5          0.250
       58       A# 4          0.250

      Section 3 (chord): play once. Relative duration = 1
       58, 60, 62, 61, 41, 79, 52, 79, 81, 50.


======================================================================

      Pattern from chromatogram of drugs of abuse and their metabolites*

      Section 1: play twice.
      MIDI #    NOTE     Relative Duration
       28       E  2          0.500
       34       A# 2          0.250
       37       C# 3          0.250
       46       A# 3          0.500
       48       C  4          1.000
       59       B  4          0.500
       70       A# 5          0.500
       77       F  6          1.000
       81       A  6          0.250
       82       A# 6          1.000

      Section 2: play 3X.
      MIDI #    NOTE     Relative Duration
       82       A# 6          0.250
       77       F  6          0.250
       48       C  4          0.250
       70       A# 5          0.250
       46       A# 3          0.250
       28       E  2          0.250
       59       B  4          0.250
       81       A  6          0.250
       37       C# 3          0.250
       34       A# 2          0.250

      Section 3 (chord): play once. Relative duration = 1
       34, 37, 81, 59, 28, 46, 70, 48, 77, 82.

      *chromatogram provided by Dr. Paul J. Gemperline,
       East Carolina University.

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Date:         Sat, 25 Dec 1993 17:38:48 EST
From:         David Lunney 
Subject:      Re: Music beyond Imagination

oops, I sent a message intended for  lrlarson@MAGNUS.. to the whole list.
It consists of tables of notes generated from experimental data:
try it, you'll like it!

David Lunney
Department of Chemistry and
Science Institute for the Disabled
East Carolina University
Greenvlle, NC 27858 USA
VOICE: 919-757-6713  919-758-6453
FAX: 919-757-6210
CHLUNNEY@ECUVM1.BITNET
CHLUNNEY@ECUVM.CIS.ECU.EDU

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Date:         Thu, 30 Dec 1993 08:58:11 -0500
From:         "Jon Crystal (Jon Crystal)" 
Subject:      Re: Music beyond Imagination

>People in our research group have mapped infrared spectra and
>into electronic music, and the results are wild.  If anybody
>is interested in a file containing the MIDI notes for the patterns,
>I can send it to you. Please note that the files contain only the
>MIDI note numbers and note durations.  You have to figure a way
>to make your synth play them. (We have used a Yamaha DX-7, and
>more recently switched to the Sound Blaster. The SB is pretty
>limited as a musical instrument, but it does OK for these simple,
>mostly one-note patterns.)
>

David:

In fact, that sounds fascinating.  I'd be interested in such a file to
experiment with.

Thanks,

Jon Crystal
University of Vermont
357 Waterman
Burlington, VT 05405
email: jcrystal@moose.uvm.edu
phone:  802 656-1163

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