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[Kay C Lan]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net>wrote:

>
> Thanks, that one worked. Cute - it's "morse" in Morse code. Twice,
> with the second time blending into the opening bars.
>

Well it is, and it isn't. Clearly, due to the needs of musical timing and
beat, the code timing has been modified to make it musically acceptable,
it's certainly close, but definitely more music than morse.

<way off tangent, nit picking overload>
given that a timing unit = T
dit = T
dah = 3T
space between dit/dah = T
space between characters = 3T
space between words = 7T

If you open something like GarageBand, which effectively prevents any
musical nuance an plays only timing perfection, and enter:
dah T dah 3T dah T dah T dah 3T dit T dah T dit 3T dit T dit T dit T 3T dit
3T dah T dah 3T dah T dah T dah 3T dit T dah T dit 3T dit T dit T dit T 3T
dit = moresemorse

and play it back, you'll soon hear the difference between the theme song and
true morse.

If, as I did, you then add a simple drum beat, you soon appreciate how
quickly morse gets out of sync. It's worse if you do 'morse morse' as
opposed to 'morsemorse'.

A precussionist can take a drum, triangle, wood block and play a beat that
sounds musical. Use the same instrument to send morse code and it
immediately doesn't sound like music, but sounds like.... morse.

For those who haven't seen this, the 'sms' guy in the clip had just won a
competition as the fastest sms'er in the country

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQaXjqfAgkQ

</way off tangent, nit picking overload>

Sorry ;-(