| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Moderator: | DYPSS1::SCHAFER |
| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Aug 29 1994 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2852 |
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On 24 May 1987, the San Francisco Synthesiser Ensemble performed a concert ON the Golden Gate Bridge, marking the 50th anniversary of the bridge. Yes, that's right, the performed the concert ON the bridge, using mallets to stroke the cables! Turns out, the cables produce eerie sounds that are quite musical, which had been noticed by many people when the wind blew through the cables. The ensemble researched the pitches and wrote a composition for the bridge. Mark
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| 810.1 | Did Anyone sample It? | AQUA::ROST | But are they friendly spirits? | Tue May 26 1987 15:26 | 2 |
Sounds great, when will the CD be available? :-)
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| 810.2 | JAWS::COTE | The Voice Of Reason | Tue May 26 1987 15:30 | 3 | |
Are they gonna take it on tour?
Edd
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| 810.3 | SCOOPED, SORRY | SALSA::MOELLER | There's no film in this chimera! | Tue May 26 1987 15:48 | 9 |
L.A.-based technodweebe composer Michael Stearns has featured a
stringed instrument called the Beam on several of his albums.
This is a 20' long steel girder fitted with tuning pegs and a bridge
(hah!).. 10 strings, played with a wooden scraper/mallet.
The Beam was invented by L.A.-based New Age weenie Constance Demby.
karl moeller
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| 810.4 | enjoy the weather karl? | JON::ROSS | Network partner excited first try!{pant} | Tue May 26 1987 15:54 | 5 |
weenie or weenette?
ron
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| 810.5 | MIDI? | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Wed May 27 1987 08:32 | 3 |
Maybe somebody in San Francisco will offer a MIDI interface for
the Golden Gate Bridge.
John Sauter
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| 810.6 | Bridge MIDI spec 0.01 | NAC::PICKETT | David R. Pickett - We Build XItement! | Wed May 27 1987 12:10 | 8 |
re: -1
MIDI-in
MIDI-out
Traffic-Thru
dp
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| 810.7 | ...We got a MUNI interface.... | THE780::FARLEE | So many NOTES, so little time... | Thu May 28 1987 13:58 | 4 |
..Kevin
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| 810.8 | Huh! | RSTS32::HAYES | Thu May 28 1987 20:10 | 4 | |
...and all I this time, I thought the "bridge" in a piece of music meant something else entirely. Hmm... John | |||||
| 810.9 | Update on the Golden Gate Bridge | ALLVAX::SCHMIEDER | Thu Nov 30 1989 14:32 | 26 | |
A little known fact is that this composition, performed some eighteen months ago, set forces into motion deep beneath the earth's crust that have been responsible for a series of recent natural disasters. Music CAN be dangerous! Congress is considering legislation outlawing instruments larger than a kitchen sink. Meanwhile, the Pentagon is complaining and requesting a waiver, because they claim the pending lesgislation would have negative impact on their submarine communications antennae. The State of Michigan has joined suit against the Pentagon, claiming that the proposed antenna would link the upper and lower peninsula and cause a rash of escaped convicts wreaking terror throughout the North Country. Minnesotans, normally very reserved, have talked about joining in this suit. But it's just talk, so far. Although it seems likely that the recent earthquake was caused by the earlier performance of this composition on the Golden Gate Bridge, insiders say that the REAL story is that the Pentagon, inspired by the musicians' example, was testing minor vibrations in the bridge as a way of sending signals to submarines off the coast of Alaska. The personnel involved, unfortnately, were not classically trained, and used a natural minor scale instead of the harmonic minor. This just goes to show what can happen when you play a bad note! Mark | |||||