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Monday, September 21, 2026
Update on the Pleiades Meal
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Instead of cocoa powder , using vanilla powder (very expensive but not much is needed.
So the meal is crushed oat flakes,
adding water,
adding a spoonful of wholegrain tahini,
adding less than a spoonful of vanilla,
adding pieces from one royal date.
It is very tasty, nutritional, and very simple and quick to make.
It takes about 2 minutes to be prepared.
Friday, September 18, 2026
The score of Beautiful Maria of My Soul - Arne Glimcher, Robert Kraft, sung by Baderas
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AT 0:30 of the following video:
The second chord is C9.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Similarities between Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven and It's a Shame - Talk Talk
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A few examples:
Both are written in the rarely used, beautiful key of C# minor.
Both contain modulation to other keys.
Both contain pedal bass with a higher part changing from major 3rd to minor 3rd.. 0:51 on Moonlight Sonata, 0:09 on Such a Shame.
Both contain pedal bass on a higher part while bass is changing. Beginning of Moonlight Sonata, 1:19 on Such a Shame.
Monday, September 14, 2026
A great BBC book on Sound Production and Reproduction
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High-Quality Sound Production and Reproduction, BBC Programme Operations Training Manual - H. Barrell Hadden
It can be found free downloadable as PDF by a simple google search:
https://www.google.com/search?q=high+quality+sound+reproduction+haadenn+Bbc&safe=active&ssui=on
Other way to reduce bass heaviness just after the microphones
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Instead of the (R,L) Pleiades filters. (inductor in series with resistor and total in parallel with microphone output) (R,C) filters can be used.
These are capacitor in parallel with resistor and the total in series, that is between microphone and preamplifier. The R can be variable as on the (R,L) filters. Similarly different capacitors or inductors can be switchable.
An (R,C) microphone filter for correcting ribbon microphone bass heaviness at smaller distance than 2-3 ft can be seen on the so nice BBC book, High Quality Sound Production and Reproduction, - H. Burrell Haden, page 63.
https://www.google.com/search?q=high+quality+sound+reproduction+haadenn+Bbc&safe=active&ssui=on
Revox G36 valve reel (tape recorder) sound on sound
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Listening on YouTube to an interview of producer Tony Swain (Just an Illusion - Imagination) where he used as a youngster a G36 for bouncing.
Then searching with the title keywords, AI found me someone who explains how it was done, with listening examples:
https://www.davidstanhope.com/cortettes.html
How would recording with a Tascam porta 07 sound if the erase heads are disconnected so that as many as needed sounds could be rerecorded on the same part of magnetic tape (cassette) without generation loss?
Sunday, September 13, 2026
The Principle of Least Change in Music
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At 1:50 of Don't You Want Me - The Human League, extended dance remix
Saturday, September 12, 2026
Pedal Bass
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You don't Fool Me - Queen
Bass stays the same while chords change.
The above example is very interesting as it is one of the very few compositions in history where the bass stays the same for a very long time.
Bass E, harmony E G B (E minor)
Bass E, harmony D #F A (D major)
Bass, harmony C E A (A minor)
It sounds very nice. A fine example of The Principle of Least Change in music.
Pedal Bass is one way of doing least change.
Other examples of Pedal Bass:
Us and Them - Pink Floyd
Against All Odds - Phil Collins at 1:02
Prelude in C minor - Chopin at beginning of chorus 0:40
Tocatta and Fugue in D minor - J. S. Bach at 0:26 to 0:38, 1:18 to 1:31, 6:49 to 7:04
One day we had a nice conversation with songwriter Mimis Plessas. He explained that pedal bass can be generalized to a constant melody while other parts are changing.
For example from the beginning, Just an Illusion - Imagination
We are not here to save the world
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By Lambros.
But if we can make it a bit better let be it.
One day there was a book on sale. Opening in random it said do everyday a little thing that makes the environment better. I did not buy the book but I strongly remember just this one thing so everyday if I see something that I do not like, for example a foreign object in the forest it is removed.
Shakespeare in a play says something like, do less harm.
In the play Merchant of Venice:
"And I beseech you, / Wrest once the law to your authority. / To do a great right, do a little wrong..."
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