And even if it worked, you wouldn’t need a radiation source more dangerous than a banana to make a geiger counter go click enough to play along.
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MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
The third sentence makes it clear it’s fake
- Geiger counters aren’t rhythmic, they’re random
- How would the audience know the beat matches the counter?
- Random music doesn’t sound good, the audience would be more excited for good music
Disappointed in the people who believed this.
philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Well… This is jazz… I’m skeptic as well, but what if it was some sort of experimental modern jazz where the musicians would try to predict the next click?
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You can’t predict the next click, that’s what random means. This would never have gotten far enough to appear in front of an audience. They would have tried it at rehearsal and realised it was impossible.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It does have a rate though. Each click is random, but overall they’re at a predictable rate. Still, it wouldn’t be useful for music really. I could see someone trying to make it happen though. I’ve heard of dumber things.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Well in that case all you’ve done is reinvent tempo but worse. Unless you vary the rate on the fly, which requires moving the counter and/or radioactive material on the fly. And then all you’ve done is create a very bad musical instrument.
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
It would be Musical Roulette essentially
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
The Geiger counter can be pre recorded, creating the illusion it was life, yet allowing the composition to be crafted around it