Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sg1q+ From: sg1q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Simon Peter Gatrall) Newsgroups: comp.graphics Subject: Musical output Message-ID:Date: 12 Jul 88 01:20:23 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 10 In-Reply-To: <12339@mimsy.UUCP> I realize I may be beating a dead horse, and that this discussion probably doesn't belong on this bboard anymore, but... While musical output from computer data may, or may not, be useful for commercial purposes, it has already been used for creative purposes. I don't have the exact references, but at least twenty years ago (+/- 10) people were turning siesmic data into music. All kinds of stuff has been done before. Doug Adams certainly didn't think of it first (I wouldn't even bet that he thought of it independently). -Simon Gatrall sg1q+@andrew.cmu.edu