Creating New Music by growing fungus on CDs, where science and art collude

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Saw this on TV a few weeks ago. Dr Cameron Jones is a rather unique scientist. He grows fungus and bacteria on CDs. As a DJ as well he attests that they actually sound better, or at least musical. Essenitially the result is that random remixes of the CD occur. You have to hear it to believe it. They demonstrated the technology on DVDs of image galleries used by architects and essentially the images were reorganised (a leg of a table under the seat of chair etc), providing inspiration for the architects. Anyhow with the music the key as he says is the alterations are music-like, it does not just sound like putting a CD in a dodgy CD player and getting various blips and bleeps etc. Not the blips and bleeps are bad midn you.

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

playing mpeg video in WinAmp = Bogdan Radzynski on crack

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

You can get interesting Christian Marclay-style displacements with a CD by scrawling crayon on it and putting it in a CD player without good error-correction.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 20 November 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, aren't CDs already places where art and science collude?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 20 November 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Weren't Oval the first ones to create music out of skipping CDs?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 20 November 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

try collide,

maybe Oval were, but this isn't making music from skipping cds. He does make the point that "Electronically sequenced media like 'glitch' exploit directed randomness, fractal clustering, nonlinear time series and stratified sampling to create novel pseudo-random sets"

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 20 November 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i love music i want to make it big how? i have got no idea i just want to cry all the time i need help no one wants to i live in hull who can help me its a dump i want some thing big i dont want a normal life i want a big life in a big world i was born 4 it and no one cares but me my family think im off my head thinking i wont make it some family they are kmy grandma said go for it but i no she thinks i wont make it and i will have a normal life well i hope there wronge i really really do thanks for listening to me wine lol your thankfully zoe rachel freeman. :)

― zoe rachel freeman, Thursday, 20 November 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Weren't Oval the first ones to create music out of skipping CDs?
Pah, I did this way before Oval did, I just didn't release it. Get your history straight, Julio!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 20 November 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Sean if you don't release a record you then how can you be a part of history?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 20 November 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm confused about Zoe.

― confused about zoe (confused about zoe), Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

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