Dear Mr Arkenstone,

 

                I would like to ask your permission to use some of your music (Yosemite from the Narada group). I am one of the physicists of the ATLAS collaboration. You can find out more about us here:  

 

 http://atlas.ch/

 

                ATLAS is a huge detector being built to conduct research on particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland. It is a non-profit organization, subsidized by various scientific organizations to conduct basic research on the origin of matter. I am the editor of our internal newsletter called ATLAS e-news. You can see the latest edition here:

 

http://atlas-service-enews.web.cern.ch/atlas-service-enews/index.html

 

 

                Last week, some of our collaborators saw the end of many years of hard work when they finally lowered a large piece of equipment called the “Small Wheels” (you should see the Big Wheels!) all pre-assembled and down into a cavern 100 yards below. Pr George Brandenburg  from Harvard, one of your fans, made a short movie of this event and added your music to it to give it a grandiose effect. We would like to ask for your permission to use it at no cost. We are not making any profit from it and would have no objection if you’d like to use our newsletter to advertise your own music. Let us know if you have any objections to that. The website has not been advertised publicly yet and if you object, we will remove the sound track. It will be sent to about 3200 members of the ATLAS collaboration plus about 200 friends of this project.

 

                Cheers, Pauline Gagnon.