[sdiy] Essential listening? - Forbidden Planet soundtrack

[jbv]

Scott,

>
> No, here is the sentence again:
> "I would also guess that using this technique was a matter of
> accidental discovery and not by deliberate engineering design."
>
> As in that the artist(s) who did the soundtrack probably discovered this by
> accident rather than computation.  But this is a guess on my part based on the
> assumption that most of us do not purposefully destroy equipment to get a desired
> effect (other than perhaps "The Who" who did it on stage for the visual).  My
> guess is that it happened and then they said "Wow, that sounded cool!"  I do not
> know, it is a guess.
>

AFAIR in an article from the early 70's I remember reading that military
equipment (such as radars) have been modified to generate sounds...
But AFAIR also, this topic (Forbidden Planet soundtrack) appeared a few
times on this list, and a few members seemed to know a lot about it...
Anyone ?

JB