Use of the Doppler Effect in music?

http://www.dopplereffect.com/home.htm

Doppler Effect (1998)
fl, vla, hp
Duration: approx 6'
Published by Kenter Canyon Music (ASCAP)
Listen / View Score
Premiered by Entr’Amis, Jim Lasota, Flute, Mary Dropkin, Harp, Dmitri Bovaird, Viola
At the Neighborhood Church, Pasadena, CA July 26, 1998

The notion of writing a piece based on the findings of an Austrian mathematician who observed the increase and decrease in the pitch of sound when the source and observer are getting closer or further apart came to me while traveling through Italy and hearing the myriad sirens passing by through the dense traffic. The motif descends by a minor second returning to the original harmony combined with the repeated minor seconds portraying the incessant sounds of car horns. The melodic lines portray the vibrancy and sensuality of the people in contrast to the craziness around them.

http://www.adriennealbert.com/works_chamber.html

Just realised you can't do has/can unless you do been/be as well :-/

I just have this vision of an instrument on a frictionless trolley being silently pulled past a microphone at high speed, or maybe a loudspeaker thrown down a cliff with a recording device halfway down. Glad to see someone's attempting to replicate it, although whether it NEEDS to be replicated is another issue. Are scientific principles a valid source for music? Or is it hollow pseudo-intellectual conflationism?

I also have this vision of a band playing on top of a vehicle on a circular track, travelling very quickly around the audience, with resulting Doppler Effects falling at different points for each spectator.

I was gonna say, orchestra on the back of a lorry a la High Anxiety.

Every tune with a true stereo chorus on any voice or instrument makes use of the Doppler effect. That'd a few hundred hit tunes, at least, and tens of thousands of everything else.

trans
europe
express

doesn't starla by the pumpkins do something a bit doppler-y? maybe not. it should, though.

re: stereo chorus, how about the leslie speaker in the rhodes organ?

and how about minimal electronics?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_Music

this is not really the doppler effect but sort of the same idea. i could easily imagine the reverse: put the speakers on pendulums and a microphone in a fixed spot, and then you really would be hearing the doppler effect.

in fact didn't somebody do something just like that?

i guess one good answer might be any of those extreme lowercase sound dudes like ryoji ikeda where they release a CD of just a pure sine tone, and as you move your head towards or away from the speaker, or walk around the room, the pitch of the sound seems to change. that's the doppler effect right there.

now that i think about it, la monte young's "dream house" would be an example of that.

trans
europe
express

Don't forget Autobahn, too. BEEP BEEP! rrrrrrrRRRROOOOwwwwnnn....beep beep...

>>stereo chorus, how about the leslie speaker in the rhodes organ?

Exactly.