Re: Music About Microscopy - Off topic I know

Posted by mmodel on
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You can use Mussorgsky's Pictures to illustrate sharp images and Debussy's Images for blurry ones!

At 6:39 PM -0400 3/14/10, Dale Callaham 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 can't 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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