From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #188 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, July 18 2006 Volume 12 : Number 188 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: New Heather Duby Album out July 18 [Joseph Zitt ] For the NYC-philes: Noe Venable at the Rockwood [meredith ] Re: Physics News Update 785 (for the musician in you) [Greg Bossert Subject: Re: New Heather Duby Album out July 18 neal copperman wrote: > We're working on a show in September with the opposite of the > interminable set change. I think we are going to be able to do the > swap in 5 minutes, with a lot of fanfare too. I did a showcase in DC with Comma at the Bayou, a club with a fairly deep stage. They had all the bands set up before anyone went on, with the closing band at the back and the opening band (us) in front. After each played, they pulled their gear off into the wings, and the next band was ready to go. But I would love to have had the Deus ex Machina machinery that your show will have. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:02:31 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: New Heather Duby Album out July 18 andrew fries wrote: > > Just like that whole thing about sound volume. The band would crank up > the volume. We, the audience, would resort to ear-plugs, and move back > away from the speakers. The band would then complain about being 'all > alone up there', and crank up the sound even more... and I always had > this thought at the back on my mind that if we'd all just stop trying > to rock so hard and turn down the volume a bit, we'd all be a whole > lot more comfortable. In a performance I did a few years ago, we had a trio of electric piano, shakuhachi, and voice (me), the latter two unamplified. The pianist acted as if he would show his prowess by hitting as many keys as possible as hard as he could. The other player and I were completely drowned out, and the pianist tried to deal with it by, as he put it later, "contributing more energy", which meant that he bogarted the soundscape even more. Finally, in frustration, first I, then the shakuhachi player, left the stage area and moved among the audience, walking along and between the rows, and singing and playing directly into the ears of audience members, which was the only way that we could be heard. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:00:15 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Fwd: Physics News Update 785 (for the musician in you) Someone sent me this today and I thought it was really fascinating! Now I feel like going on a road trip to White Sands, or better yet, Great Sand Dune in Colorado (since I haven't been there yet). neal np: Sand Dunes! Begin forwarded message: >DUNE TUNES. For centuries, world travelers have known of sand dunes > >that issue loud sounds, sometimes of great tonal quality. In the > >12th century Marco Polo heard singing sand in China and Charles > >Darwin described the clear sounds coming from a sand deposit up > >against a mountain in Chile. Now, a team of scientists has > >disproved the long held belief that the sound comes from vibrations > >of the dune as a whole and proven, through field studies and through > >controlled experiments in a lab, that the sounds come from the > >synchronized motions of the grains in avalanches of a certain size. > >Small avalanches don't produce any detectable sound, while large > >avalanches produce sound at lots of frequencies (leading to > >cacophonous noise). But sand slides of just the right size and > >velocity result in sounds of a pure frequency, with just enough > >overtones to give the sound "color," as if the dunes were musical > >instruments. In this case, however, the tuning isn't produced by > >any outside influence but by critically self-organizing tendencies > >of the dune itself. The researchers thus rule out various "musical" > >explanations. For example, the dune sound does not come from the > >stick-slip motion of blocks of sand across the body of the dune > >(much as violin sounds are made by the somewhat-periodic stick-slip > >motion of a bow across a string attached to the body of the > >violin). Nor does the dune song arise from a resonance effect (much > >as resonating air inside a flute produces a pure tone) since it is > >observed that the dune sound level can be recorded at many locations > >around the dune. Instead, the sand sound comes from the > >synchronized, free sliding motion of dry larger-grained sand > >producing lower frequency sound. The scientists---from the > >University of Paris (France), Harvard (US), the CNRS lab in Paris, > >and the Universite Ibn Zohr (Morocco)---have set up a website > >(http://www.lps.ens.fr/~douady/SongofDunesIndex.html >) where one can > >listen to sounds from different dunes in China, Oman, Morocco, and > >Chile. (Douady et al., Physical Review Letters, upcoming article; > >contact Stephane Douady at douady@lps.ens.fr) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:49:25 -0400 From: meredith Subject: the original disappear fear at falcon ridge Hi, Time for my annual "any ectophiles going to the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival?" query... Falcon Ridge is the Northeastern US's premier folk music festival, taking place this weekend (July 20-24) in Hillsdale, NY. This year is the first at a brand-new site, so it's going to be Interesting (in the Chinese sense). But Camp Ecto is going to be there once again, flying our "ectofest" banner and enjoying much good food and drink (with emphasis on the drink ;). I am also hoping to get as many musicians as I can round up to our camp on either Friday or Saturday night to hang out and jam. The main stage lineup this year isn't the greatest IMHO (Shawn Colvin? eh... the return of Dan Bern? Please ghod no, where are my earplugs), but there are some killer workshops lined up on the workshop stage ... not least of which is one called "Sibling Revelry", featuring Nerissa and Katryna Nields, Chris and Meredith Thompson, and Cindy and SONiA -- i.e. THE ORIGINAL DISAPPEAR FEAR. (Cindy makes it onstage with her sister less often than every blue moon on alternate Wednesdays, so this is truly not to be missed.) Check out the details: http://www.falconridgefolk.com If you're coming, please drop me a line! Camp Ecto will be set up on Thursday morning. I can post a map showing our camp's location on the big board once we figure it out. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:59:58 -0400 From: meredith Subject: For the NYC-philes: Noe Venable at the Rockwood Hi, Just making sure the NYC-area ectophiles are aware that Noe Venable is playing tomorrow (Tuesday) night at the Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St.) at 9pm. Yay!!! - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:10:47 -0700 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: Physics News Update 785 (for the musician in you) thanks for that, Neal! i forwarded it to my various experimental music mailing lists. very very cool. On Jul 17, 2006, at 12:00 PM, neal copperman wrote: > Someone sent me this today and I thought it was really fascinating! > Now I feel like going on a road trip to White Sands, or better yet, > Great Sand Dune in Colorado (since I haven't been there yet). >> (http:// >> www.lps.ens.fr/~douady/SongofDunesIndex.html ) where one can 'tah - -g - -- www.suddensound.com -- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:48:30 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Fwd: Physics News Update 785 (for the musician in you) Hi, neal copperman wrote: > Someone sent me this today and I thought it was really fascinating! Now > I feel like going on a road trip to White Sands, or better yet, Great > Sand Dune in Colorado (since I haven't been there yet). Wow, that's really cool. Thanks for forwarding that!! Years and years and years ago (as in, I was in high school at the time) I was given a copy of Kitaro's _Silk Road_. I used it as background music for studying, and my favorite track by far was "The Taklamakan", which included a section of sounds approximating the sound of the singing sands of the Taklamakan Desert. Really cool stuff. I'd love to be able to hear the real thing someday. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #188 ***************************