Sorry, but I have to make a trip back to The Residents for a sec. I have that CD-rom and I concur that it was mighty impressive for the time. Unfortunately, I've not found a way to play it in OS X. :-(
Perhaps I should install OS 9 on a machine at work...

Back to droning:
If you're interested in being tempted to spend $$$ further, KK Null (from Japan) does some really interesting work with noisescapes these days. Way different than Zeni Geva, his rock band. Some of it's really abrasive and some of it's rather lush. The album Prime Radial is probably the most difficult album ever to listen to. If you want to kill a party, this is the album. Aurora w/ James Plotkin is a bit more accessable. Still might dampen the party, but not kill it off.

"If you're interested in being tempted to spend $$$ further"

By 'eck. I mention once that I'm Yorkshire born and bred, and now all of t' internet is after helping me part wi' me hard-earned brass.

Eeh, I'll go to the foot of our stairs. Tha' knows full well what they say - A Yorkshireman is a Scotsman bereft of generosity. So 'appen tha'lt gi' over mitherin' us wi' tha spendthrift ways, or ah'll land thee a reet canny claht!

Now if you will excuse me, I'm away to walk the whippets. Where did I put my flat cap?

Here it is.

The Plummeting Man video.

Look deep into my eyes. You are feeling very sleepy. Now repeat after me, "this is quite good actually..."



 

lovin the nose hair!

And if you listen carefully, you can just make out the sound of my new book, "How To Command Respect Amongst Younger People" being pulped.

Besides, it's a shadow. Er, and half a day's worth of stubble. Or, if you're fifteen, about two month's worth. :-)

I'm just relieved no-one mentioned the bald patch!


  

Er, this is probably just me being a bit thick, so I'm not starting a whole new thread on it, but if I did it would probably be called Zeno's Paradoxical Theremin.

How can the pitch response of a theremin possibly be linear?

I understand linear to mean that there is an equal distance between any given pitch and one of half the frequency. (For instance the distance from C2 to C1 is the same as that from C3 to C2.) As you can halve a number forever and not reach zero, surely this should mean that the zero beat point must be an infinite distance from the pitch antenna for a perfectly linear response!


 

Gordon, maybe this will muddy up the waters a bit...


Consider that there is a point where the human ear can no longer hear the low note.

Also, maybe there is a point where the coils cannot oscilate...

...on the subject of bands that can be abrasive...

Is anyone hear familiar with Naked City? (Featruing John Zorn and some other great players....)

They can get quite raucus and noisy sometimes in a very random-sounding way.

I'm very familiar with Jon Zorn's work. I just bought FilmworksXVIII. Glorious record that. Even though John doesn't actually play on it.

BTW the Egon showed up Gordon. Can't seem to get it to work right now, though. I think a wire got pinched in transit. Grrr.

Hope your egon gets better soon. Naked City. Interesting. There's just so much good music out there. :-)

Getting back to the residents - nice little selection of early tracks (mostly) to stream here. Picnic Boy features Lene Lovich (Brits my age might remember "my lucky number's one, ah ooh, ah ooh!" fondly.) Play the first track on the list last, it's rather long.

OK, Gordon's Progress...

Rather slow. Kids home + rather annoying virus. Waiting to record The Medusa Braid.

Couple of thoughts re: next piece. I want to do something that's light on effects, and explore my idea of mercurial hieroglyphics a bit further. Read "Outside Over There" by Maurice Sendak to my daughter again the other night. I love the rhythms of the writing - "The ice-thing only dripped and stared, and Ida mad knew Goblins had been there." Also rather enjoyed listening to Maureen Lipman as The Wire in the Doctor Who episode before last. Voice ranging from cut-glass Received Pronunciation to an insistent, rising, whining, glass shattering "Feeeeeed meeeeeee." When opportunity comes I'm going to try and let these thoughts inform my experiments.

One last thing. During a brief time at the weirding module (theremin) my hand brushed against the frankenstein's clog (echohead delay box) - a big lump of metal. Instant jump in pitch. Actually perhaps not quite instant, I swear I heard the pitch rise very rapidly but it might have been an auditory illusion. Sounded a bit like my old Stylophone.

So watch out for another electromechanical effect. A bunch of conductive household objects arranged atop the theremin for touching. The Stylomin. Or the Therephone.