Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p ""The Ultimate Melody" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957. The story describes the work of a physiologist who attempts to discover the connections between music and the rhythms of the electrical pulses in the brain. He believed that all "hit-tunes" were merely poor reflections of an "ultimate" melody, and he built a machine to search for this tune. By the end of the story, he succeeds, but the influence of the melody is so powerful that he becomes completely catatonic.The piece was later published as the sixth story in Clarke's collection Tales from the White Hart."@en }
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- The_Ultimate_Melody abstract ""The Ultimate Melody" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957. The story describes the work of a physiologist who attempts to discover the connections between music and the rhythms of the electrical pulses in the brain. He believed that all "hit-tunes" were merely poor reflections of an "ultimate" melody, and he built a machine to search for this tune. By the end of the story, he succeeds, but the influence of the melody is so powerful that he becomes completely catatonic.The piece was later published as the sixth story in Clarke's collection Tales from the White Hart.".