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My friend Sandy used nedwaves graphics
for the opening and closing
credits on his documentary for Brookline Access Television, Never
2
Late
2 Play.
The film follows a group of jazz
musicians at the John Payne Music
School, many of whom started (or re-started) playing music as adults.
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Pure tones are an abstraction-- all real-world sounds have bandwidth.
Bells make nearly-pure narrow sounds; drums make wide ones. How do we
measure interval ratios of notes with width?
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New Work
I managed to put a couple of pieces together for this year's Punto y Raya
festival,
and they took this one:
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Frequency Range
This is a vertical
number line, labelled in seconds, showing event
durations. At the bottom are long-lasting musical patterns (sets,
concerts); at the top are quick events-- also called notes.
Formally, the chart title is "Duration
of events which, if repeated, humans can distinguish".
We're aware of lots of repeating patterns: with 100s of repeats per
second as
notes; 100s per minute as rhythm; 100s per hours as verse.
The leftmost column is octaves (frequency doublings) away from 1
second. I suppose it could be
extended for ultra-long pattern repetitions, like "the radio played
this
song yesterday" or "this restaurant hasn't changed the soundtrack in
months!".
Fun fact: the range shown is almost the same as the Richter scale,
since 33 octaves=10 Richters. (10 octaves = 2^10 = 1024 ~= 1000
= 10^3 = 3 Richters)
Also: this chart covers the range (10^-5) seconds to (10^4)s.
A 2nd page would cover 10^4 to 10^13. A year is 32x10^6 seconds.
A 3rd page would cover 10^13 to 10^22. The age of the universe is
400x10^15 seconds.
8.5x11 72dpi version-- slightly better
looking.
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The iTunes podcast doesn't seem to work for everyone. Here are
bundled downloads.
These are collections of the recordings I've liked best; the sets
are under 10 minutes each.
2010 Ned5 A
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Ned5 B
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I got tired of tangling with my jamman loops, so I reworked the editor
program to do it for me.
The result: a new & improved
audio library program, NWEd.
This
has
been
holding things up-- more music soon.
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Another hack I did for musichackday
Boston 2010: demo of a service I'd like to see exist.
"Lix" is twitter for music; a
platform for basement tapes.
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