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Abstract
The author describes Summerland, a generative installation for 24 computer-controlled telegraph sounders. This work uses texts from Samuel F.B. Morse and his contemporary, the Spiritualist medium Kate Fox, as source material, driving the sounders through both linguistic and spectral encoding of their words.
期刊介绍：
Leonardo Music Journal (LMJ), is the companion annual journal to Leonardo. LMJ is devoted to aesthetic and technical issues in contemporary music and the sonic arts. Each thematic issue features artists/writers from around the world, representing a wide range of stylistic viewpoints. Each volume includes the latest offering from the LMJ CD series—an exciting sampling of works chosen by a guest curator and accompanied by notes from the composers and performers. Institutional subscribers to Leonardo receive LMJ as part of a yearly subscription.
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