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The score for the THX “Deep Note” sound, made public for the first time after 35 years:

@acb I thought they generated it randomly and couldn't recreate it after?

@gargron @acb yup! earslap.com/article/recreating specifically this quote: "The code Dr. Moorer wrote has generative characteristics (i.e. it relies on random number generators), so each time you generate a score and feed the resulting statements to the ASP, the generated sound is somewhat different."

@acb i'd always dive behind the coffee table when this'd play at the start of movies when i was rlly young

@tomatohentai

I at least flinched and mostly made a sound along the lines of "GAH!!"

@acb I really want to compare recordings of a symphony orchestra and a drum corps playing this

@acb I wanna take this to an orchestra rehearsal so bad

@nein09 @acb "slightly detuned" it's like it was composed for a violin section

@acb i thought the THX deep note was a computer program written in C...

@acb it starts out with 30 voices, but i count 28 at the end (3*6 treble + 2*5 bass). what happened to the remaining two?

@ahihi @acb no idea, but it works if you count 8 notes as treble and 3 as bass (3*8+2*3=30)