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Music to Prose Conversion: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Firebird Suite

John Ohno
357 min readDec 1, 2019

The following is a novel-length text generated for NaNoGenMo 2018, produced by mapping the audio frequencies of musical notes onto word frequencies in an english language corpus.

stravinsky_firebird_suite_(c)nakajima

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John Ohno
John Ohno

Written by John Ohno

Resident hypertext crank. Author of Big and Small Computing: Trajectories for the Future of Software. http://www.lord-enki.net

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