Re: Music About Microscopy - David Soll did this year's ago

Posted by George McNamara on
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David Soll, U Iowa, did data to music many years ago.


At 12:30 PM 3/15/2010, you wrote:

>Colleagues,
>         Dale Calaham refers to the following article:
>
>Alenka Lovy-Wheeler, Joseph G. Kunkel, Ellen G. Allwood, Patrick J.
>Hussey, and Peter K. Hepler (2006) Oscillatory Increases in
>Alkalinity Anticipate Growth and May Regulate Actin Dynamics in
>Pollen Tubes of Lily Plant Cell 18: 2182-2193; (This is open access
>article so anyone may check it out). The video with auido is the
>supplemental file.
>
>Alenka collaborated with a composer to make a score for the video to
>help appreciate the various rhythmic behaviors in the pollen tube. I
>note that this was not simply a mashup with extant audio tracks but
>involved newly composed music. I think asking for new music would
>enliven the competion.
>
>         Tobias
>
>
>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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