Re: Music About Microscopy - Off topic I know

Posted by Rosemary.White on
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And there are those who put movies and words to existing songs
e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnK7RT1q0bA

On 15/03/10 9:39 AM, "Dale Callaham" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Cam,
>
> A former associate, Alenka Lovy-Wheeler did a very interesting thing
> with her microscopy and let the microscopy BE the music. I don't recall
> exactly what she did, but she was looking at streaming and particle
> movements in the growing Lily pollen tube tip and I think she used the
> rate data for various classes of particles and (with some
> scaling/massaging of the data, I assume) put it into a WAV file and
> played it as the soundtrack along with the movie of the growing tip at a
> seminar. It was a very different way to "see" the data....
>
> Dale
>
> Cameron Nowell wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I know this is an off topic (and out of left field) question, but who
>> else to ask than this forum.
>>
>> I have been toying with an idea of combining an image competition with
>> some music played by an orchestra I am part of. But I can¹t really think
>> of any music that could be associated with microscopy directly or have
>> some link to imaging of small things, or just small things in general..
>> The best I can come up with would be stuff from the sound track of
>> Microcosmos.
>>
>> Any Ideas?
>>
>> Cam
>>
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