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University scientists have revealed a remarkable breakthrough in digital music reproduction. The team recorded a 20-second clarinet solo and encoded it in less than a single kilobyte—a file nearly one-thousandth the size of a regular MP3 file. Mark Bocko, professor of electrical and computer engineering, cocreated the technique in which a computer generates both the real-world physics of a clarinet and the physics of a clarinet player. Bocko says the future of music recording could lie in reproducing performers and not recording them.
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