EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 59, Issue 09 This issue's topics: Music beyond Imagination (6 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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). ====================================================================== 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. ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************