hehe j/k martine... but check this one out....
Ran across this the other day.... thought you might
find it interesting. There will probably be a Xmas
album coming soon....
Here is a musical engine.
http://astro.temple.edu/~kmr/Chauffe2.mp3
The write-up explaining it all: First you'll hear a
10-cylinder, 750
horsepower Asiatech F1 engine being warmed up. Then it
performs a
rousing version of "When The Saints Come Marching In",
to the delight of
assembled pit staff and journalists.
Here's how the magic was achieved (technical/musical
details via F1
Racing magazine):
As we all know, a V10 engine produces five combustions
per revolution at
a frequency per second of 60/(5 x revs per minute),
which equals 12/rpm.
Therefore, to work out the revs you need to hit a
particular musical
note, you multiply the note's frequency by 12. To play
a 440Hz 'A', for
example, you need 5,280rpm. For 'C', use 3,139rpm, for
'F' 4,191rpm, and
so on.
Asiatech's French technicians (the engine, despite its
name, is derived
from a Peugeot design) simply programmed their engine
to run through the
various rev/note ranges in the correct sequence. The
result is delightful.
Ran across this the other day.... thought you might
find it interesting. There will probably be a Xmas
album coming soon....
Here is a musical engine.
http://astro.temple.edu/~kmr/Chauffe2.mp3
The write-up explaining it all: First you'll hear a
10-cylinder, 750
horsepower Asiatech F1 engine being warmed up. Then it
performs a
rousing version of "When The Saints Come Marching In",
to the delight of
assembled pit staff and journalists.
Here's how the magic was achieved (technical/musical
details via F1
Racing magazine):
As we all know, a V10 engine produces five combustions
per revolution at
a frequency per second of 60/(5 x revs per minute),
which equals 12/rpm.
Therefore, to work out the revs you need to hit a
particular musical
note, you multiply the note's frequency by 12. To play
a 440Hz 'A', for
example, you need 5,280rpm. For 'C', use 3,139rpm, for
'F' 4,191rpm, and
so on.
Asiatech's French technicians (the engine, despite its
name, is derived
from a Peugeot design) simply programmed their engine
to run through the
various rev/note ranges in the correct sequence. The
result is delightful.
