In Devon? You should go to @robinmujician’s bagpipe recital robinthepiper.co.uk/bagpipe-recital-st-marys-church-totnes — guaranteed to be excellent!
Unexplained Sounds — Whistle
My first experiment with using sped-up oceanic hydrophone recordings as a musical element, contrasted against the Hurdy Gurdy.
This one is a currently (2014-04) unidentified sound (probably an underwater volcano erupting) known as “whistle”.
Underwater Sounds #watersound #tabdump:
Tangentially related:
MTU has this wonderful explanation of the differences in physics between open/closed conical and cylindical bore instruments. Try some of the equations out in grapher or an equivalent!
Open cylindrical bore (e.g. panpipes): y=sin(nx)
Closed conical bore (e.g. saxophone): y=sin(nx)/nx
where n is the harmonic e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. in both cases.
Heading off to see DJ Geimskip og Flugvél (amongst others) at Café Rosenberg later. Come along if you’re in town!
@jordandykstra explaining about the walrus before last night’s horizontal viola set:
blewharp.com finishing off her cracking harp set with a “wild woman table song” last night:
The Wolfson #raspberryPi audio board looks perfect for embedded musical #IoT applications! elektor.com/news/the-wolfson-audio-card-for-raspberry-pi.2698771.lynkx
@sophiedennis haha yeah “dissociation” is the French word for trompette rhythms to go with the melody, abbreviated to “disso”. But if anyone could do disco gurdy, it’s Gregory Jolivet ;)
New tune, recorded as a test of my #gurdy’s pickup: OWLS WITH TENTACLES
Last night’s @hakkavelin #gurdy mutilation repair work worked perfectly! I now have a rather nice sounding electro-acoustic hurdy gurdy.
Next steps: wire up the internal microphone, put a plate over the hole in the back, fit the raspberry pi and power supply.
Sad news about the George Sand committee on rencontresdeluthiers.org — I don’t know exactly what this means for Chateau d’Ars but I’m assuming it’s either not going to continue, or will continue in a diminished form.
Attending for the first time last year was one of the most intense and enjoyable trips I’ve ever been on, filled with wonderful instruments, music and even more amazing people. Whatever happens to the festival, those things will remain.
Spent the evening at a dj. flugvél og geimskip concert, which, for those who have not witnessed this genius at work, looks and sounds something like this:
#listening to NASA + CC-licensed ambient music youarelistening.to/nasa @ Vísar HQ #spaaace
Project for Chateau d’Ars (and maybe Halsway) in 2014: fit gurdy with wheel speed measuring device, record traces of different peoples’ trompette styles.
On the first day of Christmas Steve Knightley gave to me the Keys of Canterbury
On the second day of Christmas Phil Beer gave to me two Tracks of Words…
On the third day of Christmas Steve Knightley gave to me three Cutthroats, Crooks and Conmen…
On the fourth day of Christmas Phil Beer gave to me four Beaten Bushes…
On the fifth day of Christmas Steve Knightley gave to me five Bristol Slavers…
On the sixth day of Christmas Phil Beer gave to me Six O’Clock Waltzes…
On the seventh day of Christmas Steve Knightley gave to me seven Galway Farmers…
On the eigthth day of Christmas Phil Beer gave to me eight Blind Fiddlers…
On the ninth day of Christmas Steve Knightely gave to me nine Silver Daggers…
On the tenth day of Christmas Phil Beer gave to me ten Preachers on islands…
On the eleventh day of Christmas Steve Knightly gave to me eleven Crazy Boys…
On the twelfth day of Christmas Show of Hands gave to me twelve Twats Twittering…
Rejected lyrics included “sallys free and easy”, “gallons of red diesel”, “inane youtube videos”, and “old jokes”. Songs: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Lots of good, if a little bizarre, #gurdy playing in this video (fr):
Found this lovely chart of 17th century Viol ornaments (notation+equivalent notation) in The Division Viol:
Learnt about the Txalaparta from @begoesti — a rather wonderful Basque percussion instrument.