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This research was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation du Québec, the Canadian Cancer Society, the Government of Canada's New Frontiers in Research Fund, as well as the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Nature et Technologies and the Fonds de recherche du Québec -Santé.

Because of better technology for measuring very low concentration of these elements, it's now possible to do these kinds of studies, explains Sophia V. Hansson, a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Toulouse, France.

She flexed her compositional muscles on “Living Torch,” an electroacoustic work created for the Acousmonium, a multichannel setup developed in the 1970s at Groupe de Recherche Musicales, or GRM, in Paris.

“You need,” said Philippe Cury, a senior scientist at the French Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, “one-third for the birds.”

It is like no eggnog you have ever had, and once you try it, your palate will be far too recherché for the lowly, ready-made sort found in cartons showcased along cold case shelves at your local supermarket.