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- From: dan@netcom.com (Dan Liddell)
- Subject: Re: Acoustic-Archaeology
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.231441.22803@netcom.com>
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- References: <32130@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 23:14:41 GMT
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- In article <32130@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM> wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson) writes:
- >Arthur C. Clarke, in a letter to _Spaceflight_ publication of the
- >
- >He goes on to say that "Dr. Woodbridge hoped that sounds might
- >be recorded by, for example, a potter's wheel acting as a primitive
- >phonograph. He did succeed in locating, after a tedious search, the
- >word 'blue' in the brush strokes of a painter on a blue portion
- >of canvas!
- >...
- >Has anyone of this forum heard any recent work?
-
- In fiction. In one of the Nevereyon books, published in the 80's,
- Delany uses this kind of recording as a segue to a descriptive
- fragment.
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- Dan Liddell dan@netcom.com
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