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From: jtn@zodiac.ADS.COM (John Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Performance Art Project
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Date: 4 Dec 89 17:44:38 GMT
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In article <7595@ulysses.UUCP> garym@cognos.UUCP (Gary Murphy) writes:
>
>One of my own more successful shows was actually a score by Marcel
>DuChamp, which I performed as part of the centennial last year.  This
>involved a Lionel model train which passed under a hopper collecting
>stones and then dumped the stones on an A:D converter.  The converter
>then passed the digital values to a PC where they were converted to
>pitches and durations.

What?  You didn't run the locomotive into a tiny truck loaded
with teeny tiny harpsichords?  What an opportunity you've missed!


Graduate of the Gomez Addams school of music and model railroading.

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