Friday, February 26, 2021

Irina Nedeva

https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/mars/Source/Resources/Human/NEDEVA_Irina.pdf

Monday, February 1, 2021

The excellent acoustics of recording music outdoors

Vicky, a simple melody

This melody came while Vicky was playing on the piano, after she had insisted that a Telefunken Magnetophon automatic with electron tubes must come back to the Pleiades lab. It felt happy. Key is G Dorian ie all B are flat. Bass code is G7 to C or B7 to B246 ie bB D F A to bB C E G. melody is: --DE F-D- B7 B-F- --ED E-G- B246 --E- repeat in loop ----- means sustained note as many 1/8ths as -----s.

Music written for a plane

It is a music track with date time code 0704293 written while a missing plane near Cyprus was on the radio news. It is performed on Yamaha dx7ii with Pleiades brain equal temperament. This allows even very complex chords to sound very nice. Harmony chords and various key modulations attempt to simulate the plane getting out or in equilibrium. F bass and bA C F F bass and bB D G x2 F bass and #A #C #F B bass and B D #F B bass and A #C E G bass and B D #F etc TB-303 pays bass, the FBT mixer (adder) is used, Cinema Engineering eQ, RCA BA-6A limmiter, Orban optimod 8000A, transmission on FM, reception by Beocenter 2600, feeding the modified Philips CDR 870. Various miliatry etc audio transformers are in the signal path.

The most informative news is possibly in a foreign language that is not understood

Happy New Year!