Re: Another musical computer

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From: lan... Howard A. Landman x61391
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1990 19:44

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In article <15661@well.UUCP> rchrd@well.UUCP (Richard Friedman) writes:
>Using sound to detect periodicity is not so odd as it may seem.
>Charles Dodge, a composer at Columbia in the '70's used data from
>the fluctuations of the earth's magnetosphere as recorded by NASA
>probes as the basis for a piece of digital electronic music called
>(I believe) "The Earth's Magnetic Field" and it appeared on a
>Nonesuch recording.

I *have* this record.  I got it for $0.25 at a library sale a month
ago.  It didn't look like it had been played very much. :-)  I
suppose I'll have to actually give it a listen now ...

	Howard A. Landman
	lan...@eng.sun.com -or- sun!landman

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