- hsdkfr734r ( @hsdkfr734r@feddit.nl ) English88•3 days ago
I believed it. Sadly it’s not real: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/plutonium-jazz
- tacosanonymous ( @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ) English3•3 days ago
Phew.
I came to the comments for this hope.
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English30•2 days 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_ ( @philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de ) English8•2 days ago
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.
- i_love_FFT ( @i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml ) English9•2 days 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 ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English6•2 days 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.
- lennivelkant ( @lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•1 day ago
It would be Musical Roulette essentially
- Cethin ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) English7•2 days 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 ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English4•2 days 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.
- Akasazh ( @Akasazh@feddit.nl ) English2•2 days ago
The Geiger counter can be pre recorded, creating the illusion it was life, yet allowing the composition to be crafted around it
- Miles O'Brien ( @SARGE@startrek.website ) English63•3 days ago
This sounds like something that was made up for a fallout game.
Of course, so does “bombarding myself with xrays and moving around to entertain the audience looking at my bones” and “including uranium in paint to make watch dials glow”
- SattaRIP ( @SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•3 days ago
They did it with uranium too? I knew about radium, but not that.
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) English6•3 days ago
Since “Geiger” is German for “violinist”, you can replicate it with a guy who counts how many violinists are present
- Malgas ( @Malgas@beehaw.org ) English1•7 hours ago
“3.6 violinists. Not great, not terrible.”
- Grayox ( @Grayox@lemmy.ml ) English1•3 days ago
Live performances at Chernobl when?!
- zero_spelled_with_an_ecks ( @zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ) English1•3 days ago
Sounds like a Cowboy Bebop episode involving smuggled fissile material.