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Back in 1984, I built one of the first home computers, a Micro 8 powered by
an Intel 8008. I still have it. Anyway, one of the first output devices
(other than blinking lights on the front panel) I hooked up my stereo to an
output port. I could produce tones by varying the frequency of ones and
zeros hitting the single bit of the output port. With the 8008 there was a
convenient instruction that generated random numbers and when I shot that to
the stereo I could produce endless hours of si-fi sounding "music." That is
endless until my family attacked me. My brother told me that there was a
French composer that used random synthesized music in his compositions and
called it stochastic. My, it's a small world.
Once I sent the entire set of instructions in memory (all 128 bytes, not
megabytes) to the stereo. Different sounds than random numbers! If you
listened carefully you could discern patterns.
Marlowe
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Ferguson <wl7bdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 2:44 PM
Subject: GEN: Harmony
> My CD stack got me thinking about tape reading from the math = music
> perspective. Has anyone heard the price data played through a sound card?
It
> seems that if there were rhythms and harmonies between various time frames
> or interdependent data, as price and tick and vix, listening to this info
> might reveal something. In some magazine articles data is presented as
noise
> and filters are designed to, well, filter the noise. Has anyone ever
> listened to it?
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> For that matter, if there is harmony of the spheres, what does it sound
> like?
>
> Bass -icy,
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> Michael
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