obviously the womb is the universe ... h ; ) bob catchpole wrote: > I didn't expect the answer so soon!... I think you're right. Yet maybe > there's also something else going on. It's hard to define, but we all > carry a distant buried memory of our first sonic environment, the > womb. What is it? The babies who recognised the recording fell asleep > peacefully... (the others didn't)... What were they responding to? > Sound? Pulse? Space?... > > Bob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* Simon Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** > *Sent:* Wednesday, 29 October, 2008 19:30:53 > ** > They are sonically similar because they are recording very different > phenomena using effectively the same encoding system. As such the > perceived similarity is a function of the code, not the phenomena. > There is no need to assume that everything in the cosmos is connected > in some manner simply because our capacity to represent these things > is so limited. > > Regards > > Simon > > > On 29/10/08 17:22, "bob catchpole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Marc, > > Facing the cosmos, human understanding remains puny, no? Why would > a womb and a star have sonic similarities? What is being recorded > anyway? Maybe one distant day there will be an answer?... > > Bob > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From:* marc garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, 29 October, 2008 14:51:27 > > Hi Bob, > > That's pretty interesting - what do you think it means in respect of > them sounding similar? > > marc > > Some years ago, as part of a medical project to spot newborn > babies that might be deaf, recordings were made of the sound of a > womb and played back to the babies on tiny headphones. Those > without hearing problems responded to the recording with > unmistakable recognition. As I recall, the medical team's > recording of the sound of the womb was strikingly similari to the > recordings of these stars... > > > > Bob > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: brian gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, 28 October, 2008 1:39:51 > > > > > > wow a million thank yous > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:21 PM, aymeric mansoux > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > marc garrett said : > > > > > >> Team records 'music' from stars - Like Aphex Twin music. > >> > >> By Pallab Ghosh > >> Science correspondent, BBC News. > >> > >> Scientists have recorded the sound of three stars similar to our Sun > >> using France's Corot space telescope. > >> > >> The subtly pulsating, haunting sounds are very similar to artist > Aphex > >> Twin's minimalistic nineties album 'Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2,' > >> only stripping away what little melody it had and leaving just > the beat. > >> > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7687286.stm > >> > > > > Reminds me of Lustmord > > > > He used such sounds in 94 as material for an album "ARECIBO/Trans > > Plutonian Transmissions" > > http://www.discogs.com/release/114042 > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory#Arecibo_in_popular_culture > > > > nice one if you like darkambient. > > > > a. > > > -- ____________________________________________________________
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