By Frank | Published:
May 13, 2009
“Drawing from traditions of 20th century instrumental synthesizer music, Jonas Reinhardt represents a love affair between analog electronics, sweeping atmospherics, and driving motorik beats. Combined together, these elements bring the album’s 13 pieces into focus as the soundtrack for an inner-eyelid space epic that never was.
Inspired in equal measure by the natural beauty of his California coastal surroundings, continental European art-rock experimentation, and the freewheeling punk aesthetic of contemporary home studio recording, Jonas Reinhardt’s music transcends it’s influences to bring into being a work that’s wholly new while referencing a celebrated aesthetic of the past.
Armed with a battery of analog synthesizers and vintage drum machines, Jonas writes music that is at times stark and spare and at others lush and all-encompassing; all the while keeping an underlying rhythmic pulse just beneath the surface.
Jonas describes his technique as ‘a spirited conversation between man, machines, and the ecstatic truth of the chaotic unknown.’ With this album, Jonas carefully constructs melodies and rhythmic foundations then pushes the limits of recording to the sonic fringes and beyond. The effect is a warm, hauntingly familiar sound bounded by unpredictability.”
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By Frank | Published:
May 13, 2009
“Ralf und Florian is a 1973 album created and produced by the German music group Kraftwerk. It was also released under the English name of Ralf and Florian. Unlike Kraftwerk’s later albums, which featured language-specific lyrics, only the titles differ between the English and German editions.
Along with Kraftwerk’s first two albums, Ralf und Florian has, as of 2008, never been officially re-issued on compact disc. However, the album remains an influential and sought after work, and bootlegged CD’s were widely distributed in the 1990s on the Germanofon label. The band has hinted that the album may finally see a re-mastered CD release after their Der Katalog box set.
As indicated by the title (and like their previous album), all the tracks were written, performed and produced by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider, with the sessions engineered by the influential Konrad “Conny” Plank. The album has a fuller and more polished sound quality than previous efforts, and this is clearly due to the use of a number of commercial recording studios in addition to Kraftwerk’s own yet-to-be-named Kling Klang. The colour photograph on the back of the cover gives a vivid impression of the bohemian state of Kraftwerk’s own facilities at the time – including egg-box trays pasted, nailed, or stuck on the walls for soundproofing.” Read More »
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By Frank | Published:
May 12, 2009
“Electromagnetic interference (or EMI, also called radio frequency interference or RFI) is an unwanted disturbance that affects an electrical circuit due to either electromagnetic conduction or electromagnetic radiation emitted from an external source. The disturbance may interrupt, obstruct, or otherwise degrade or limit the effective performance of the circuit. The source may be any object, artificial or natural, that carries rapidly changing electrical currents, such as an electrical circuit, the Sun or the Northern Lights.
EMI can be intentionally used for radio jamming, as in some forms of electronic warfare, or can occur unintentionally, as a result of spurious emissions for example through intermodulation products, and the like. It frequently affects the reception of AM radio in urban areas. It can also affect cell phone, FM radio and television reception, although to a lesser extent.”
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By Frank | Published:
May 12, 2009
“In physics, the geometrical design that results when a set of straight or curved lines is superposed onto another set; the name derives from a French word for “watered.” The effect may be seen by looking through the folds of a nylon curtain of small mesh, or two sheets of graph paper twisted 20 or 30 degrees with respect to one another. If a grating design made of parallel black and white bars of equal width is superposed on an identical grating, moiré fringes will appear as the crossing angle is varied from about one second of arc to about 45°. The pattern will consist of equidistant parallel fringes. If two gratings of slightly different spacing are superposed, “beat” fringes will appear, which shift positions much faster than does the displacement of one grating with respect to the other. This principle is used to measure small displacements in mechanical devices (e.g., comparator). Moiré patterns are useful in representing fluid flow and potential fields. Problems in optics, wave motion, stress analysis, crystallography, mathematics, and the psychology of perception may also be solved. A different kind of moiré pattern results when two families of curves of different colors are superposed: fringes of a third color are produced.”
By Frank | Published:
May 12, 2009
Two Source Sound Interference
“Wave interference is a phenomenon which occurs when two waves meet while traveling along the same medium. Wave interference can be constructive or destructive. Constructive interference occurs at locations where the two interfering waves are displaced in the same direction - either both up or both down. When constructive interference occurs at a location along a medium, the resultant displacement of the medium at that location is larger than the displacement of either of the two individual waves. A new and larger wave is constructed. Destructive interference occurs at locations where the two interfering waves are displaced in the opposite direction - one wave is displaced up and the other displaced down. When destructive interference occurs at a location along the medium, the two individual waves combine to produce a new wave which has a resultant displacement which is smaller than the displacement of either wave at the location. That is, the two waves combine to either partially or completely destroy each other.
A popular Physics demonstration involves the interference of two sound waves from two speakers. The speakers are set approximately 1 meter apart and produced identical tones. The two sound waves traveled through the air in front of the speakers, spreading our through the room in spherical fashion. A snapshot in time of the appearance of these waves is shown in the diagram below. In the diagram, the compressions of a wavefront are represented by a thick line and the rarefactions are represented by thin lines. These two waves interfere in such a manner as to produce locations of some loud sounds and other locations of no sound. Of course the loud sounds are heard at locations where compressions meet compressions or rarefactions meet rarefactions and the “no sound” locations appear wherever the compressions of one of the waves meet the rarefactions of the other wave. If you were to plug one ear and turn the other ear towards the place of the speakers and then slowly walk across the room parallel to the plane of the speakers, then you would encounter an amazing phenomenon. You would alternatively hear loud sounds as you approached anti-nodal locations and virtually no sound as you approached nodal locations. (As would commonly be observed, the nodal locations are not true nodal locations due to reflections of sound waves off the walls. These reflections tend to fill the entire room with reflected sound. Even though the sound waves which reach the nodal locations directly from the speakers destructively interfere, other waves reflecting off the walls tend to reach that same location to produce a pressure disturbance.)”
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By Frank | Published:
May 4, 2009
The Wire: Issue #303 (May 09)
MM: I mean, The Germs definitely had something of interest to them. But I think The Screamers are the ones that deserved recognition as what could have been the most important band from that era. Their music was excellent. Yeah, they were good, we saw them when we were like, cos we came over really cocky cos we’d gone to New York and kind of freaked people out cos they’d watched Talking Heads and Television and all these bands form, in school, and they’d watch them trade partners around, and Blondie, everyone would swap around members and The Ramones would become who they were going to become, and they watched them develop. And Devo showed up, we showed up putting up posters all over Manhattan that we’d printed for 50 cents a piece that were big. And people were like ‘Oh, these guys are putting up like little 8 by ten’… and we had these yellow outfits and a whole vernacular and a set of songs that didn’t sound like anything else they were hearing, so we quite quickly became a phenomenon in New York, where we weren’t making any money but our guest list was always like, all the Rolling Stones, um, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp…
RH: David Bowie…
MM: John Lennon. All these people would be on our guest list. We’d have like Jack Nicholson, everybody wanted to see Devo in those days. So we left there going ‘We don’t have a record deal and we don’t have any money, but we’re doing something right’ and we felt really good about it and we thought ‘We’re going to take over Hollywood’ and we kind of in a way did really well out here, but they were the band that we were watching thinking ‘That’s it. That’s the band.’ They should have been.
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