RADIO 4?!?!?!? (US folks: BBC Radio 4 is like public radio, but only for the broadsheet-reading, 'bulge-bracket' types who 'run' the country, tend to earn at least an above average wage etc, middle-to-upper-class types all the crap that goes with it.)
.... Johnny, you bourgeoise middle class ... ... Oh yeah, I listened to that too! :o) It was v interesting and I was thinking of how to introduce it to the discussion. I hope someone I like samples some of those sounds. They're amazing. k >-----Original Message----- >From: Jonny McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 3:02 PM >To: jurren baars; [email protected] >Subject: Re: (313) old tresors > > >Last night I got home and switched on Radio 4 - it's the new Environ - and >the "leading Edge" science show was discussing Terry Riley's "Sun Rings" >composition for the Kronos Quartet. It's based on some sounds obtained from >plasma waves in and around earth. The bit I caught was about these waves >being thrown up by the Earth's electromagnetic fields and travelling to the >poles. Higher frequencies arrive before lower ones so the recording have >this sliding sound. It's eerie as. But the Jupiter ones (jovial? har har) >are melodic and rhythmic. It all sounded superb. Check them out, and have a >read, at: > >http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/space-audio/ > >> kj: >> >Someone told me that the vinyl version of Rings of Saturn also has the >> >tracks cut at a scaled size as the actual rings of saturn. >> >> nd that they based the sound of the track on the metrial of the >ring. each >> ring apparently has a different substance, and they tried to reflect that >in >> the sound. [i think i got this from odwo keshun's book, can't even >recollect >> the title right now, so all of the above might have been my own >> immagination. i'll look it up when i get home.] >> >> jurren > >
