Using the stars to compose?

[LostGoldRecords]

Hey I was wondering if any one here is a fan of Bob Gallo?
His electronica / new age album Starway to Heaven uses star charts that he lined up with a musical staff so that the stars created the notes.
Anyone ever tried anything like this?
Thoughts?

Bob Gallo is also supposedly the guy who discovered Elvis Costello!

[pennywill]

Reminds me of the composer (I forget which) that drew a staff on a fish tank, then played each note as the fish swam. I, personally, am too much of a control freak to let 'the fates' have any part in my music I do however, LOVE Elvis Costello (especially his earlier stuff).

[Jerome]

Sounds completely nuts to me, but without hearing the music, who knows? Maybe there's method to his madness.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

I agree Jerome...

would have liked a link to a Gallo track which used this method,
instead we get all these EDM guys posting their predictable tripe.

also,
I tried looking for Bob Gallo on the WWW for something to read, all I got was some Nobel Prize winning scientist, nothing else.

[bob_32_116]

I agree Jerome...

would have liked a link to a Gallo track which used this method,
instead we get all these EDM guys posting their predictable tripe.

also,
I tried looking for Bob Gallo on the WWW for something to read, all I got was some Nobel Prize winning scientist, nothing else.

Heh. "Some Nobel prize winning scientist". He's only one of the researchers credited with identifying the HIV virus, that's all.

Still, I suppose if you didn't read about that kind of stuff, you wouldn't know. As for me, I never heard of a Bob Gallo in the music field. I'd need more details, but "composing by the stars" sounds to me like so much BS.