The music has been composed and arranged with email support, the two authors never met each other, they only used email to cooperate and exchanging files.

If you want to know more, please read the press release

The IFIP newsletter also has a story about this piece of music.

Music files

This site offers different arrangements of this music as MIDI files and in some other audio formats.
All MIDI files are small (<50 KB), the Mpeg3 files are around 1.5 MB each, and the Real Audio files are around 500 KB each.

These files are ©1996,1998 Erich Neuwirth and Darryl Burrows

Orchestral performance

Video and audio recordings

• Quicktime movie (large screen, 12MB)
• Quicktime movie (large screen, 12MB, via ftp)
• Quicktime movie (small screen, 6MB)
• Quicktime movie (small screen, 6MB, via ftp)
• RealVideo movie (large screen, 500KB)
• RealVideo movie (small screen, 450KB)
• RealVideo movie (large screen, pseudostreaming)
• RealVideo movie (small screen, pseudostreaming)
• Quicktime movie (sound only, streaming)
• Quicktime movie, sound only, 1.7MB
• RealAudio, 400KB
• RealAudio, streaming
• MPEG3, 560KB
• Microsoft Windows WAV file, 1.7MB

Orchestral score and other sheet music

We also offer the conductor's score of the orchestral version and the score of the classical piano version as Adobe Acrobat files.

Additionally, we have a version for the Finale viewer, which allow to read then score while it is being played.

This composition is dedicated to Prof. Heinz Zemanek, one of Europe's computer pioneers and IFIP honorary member.

These files are ©1997,1998 Erich Neuwirth.

This Web site also offers information about Erich Neuwirth's multimedia document about the mathematical foundations of musical temperament.

This site is possible through genereous support from Sun microsystems.

Last update: 19981025 EN