Decoding music.A real code has been broken in a church featured in The Da Vinci da Vinci Surgery A surgical robot for performing certain surgeries–eg, mitral valve repair and laparoscopic procedures–eg, cholecystectomy and gastric ulcer repair. See Laparoscopic surgery, Robotics, Surgical robot. Code, and the result is beautiful music. In the 15th-century Rosslyn Chapel Rosslyn Chapel, originally named the Collegiate Chapel of St. Matthew, is a 15th century Episcopal church in the village of Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland. The chapel was designed by William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (also spelled "St. in Scotland, carved carve v. carved, carv·ing, carves v.tr. 1. a. To divide into pieces by cutting; slice: carved a roast. b. angel musicians accompany cubes sequentially arranged across arches and carved with geometric patterns that a father and son team have discovered represent tones. Thomas Mitchell Major Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell (June 16, 1792-1855), surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia, was born at Grangemouth in Stirlingshire, Scotland. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, but the poverty of his family following his father's death led him to , a 75-year-old musician and former code breaker Code Breaker is a cheat device developed by Pelican Accessories, currently available for PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS. Along with competing product Action Replay, it is one of the few currently supported video game cheat devices. for the Royal Air Force, spent 27 years on the puzzle, and his son Stuart, a composer and pianist, produced the music with authentic medieval instruments and a contemporary hymn. Thomas Mitchell's website (tjmitchell.com/ stuart/rosslyn.html) has a sample of The Rosslyn Motet, as they named it, and a video demonstrating how they broke the code with an ancient musical system called cymatics. The first performance took place in May. "It's not something you would want to put on in the car and listen to, but it's certainly an interesting piece of music," Simon Beattie of the Rosslyn Chapel Trust told Reuters. "It's got a good medieval sound to it." |
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