Peter writes "Since atomic clocks worldwide will add a leap second New Year's Eve 2006, we decided we wanted to immortalize the moment in sound. Create a one-second piece of music and email it to us, and we'll have the results by New Year's. It's the ultimate in economical music -- meaning uncompressed audio (AIFF/WAV) is perfectly kosher!" Link.
Make a Musical Ode to the Leap Second
Peter writes "Since atomic clocks worldwide will add a leap second New Year's Eve 2006, we decided we wanted to immortalize the moment in sound. Create a one-second piece of music and email it to us, and we'll have the results by New Year's. It's the ultimate in economical music -- meaning uncompressed audio (AIFF/WAV) is perfectly kosher!" Link.
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