Alfke.PASA@Xerox.ARPA (07/17/85)
From: Peter Alfke <Alfke.pasa@Xerox.ARPA> An excellent sf story with music as a dominant theme: "Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance" by John Varley. This story concerns (1) companies that buy musical compositions (and other abstract artistic works) created by astronauts who spend years alone; and (2) a synthesizer that plugs into a human and uses body position and mental attitude to control the sound it creates. A really, really good story. It's in "The Barbie Murders" / "Picnic on Nearside". --Peter Alfke