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Going Public: SEMO Student Composes Music Based on Stock Market Data

KRCU Public Radio | By Dan Woods
Published April 10, 2021 at 10:10 AM CDT
Southeast Missouri State University

Can stock market data be considered music? Investors, stockbrokers and others in the financial industry might think so. Most others would probably say no.

Landon Schnurbusch, a senior planning to graduate in May 2021 from Southeast Missouri State University and double major in musical composition and mathematics actuarial science, used a Disklavier piano to compose and program music for his final composition recital using Dow Jones stock market data. Dan Woods spoke with him on the television program, "SE Connect."
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Dan Woods
Dan is a 1994 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. He majored in radio and minored in political science. He spent three of his four years at Southeast working as a student announcer at KRCU – the beginning of his radio career.
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