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A Jouney into Sound Part IX -- :Language

by rg
Tue May 13th, 2008 at 08:49:08 PM EDT

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A Journey into Sound Part VIII - Dynamics (with videos)

by rg
Sat May 10th, 2008 at 05:29:19 AM EDT

Whoo! Saturday bump up! - In Wales

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A Journey into Sound Part VII -- Consonance & Dissonance (with videos)

by rg
Sat May 3rd, 2008 at 05:56:17 AM EDT

Saturday bump up for our sound journey - In Wales

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A Journey into Sound, Part VI - Pitch (with videos)

by rg
Sat Apr 26th, 2008 at 04:02:31 AM EDT

For your listening pleasure! Promoted by In Wales

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A Journey into Sound Part V - Timbre (with videos)

by rg
Fri Apr 18th, 2008 at 06:07:28 PM EDT

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A Journey into Sound Part IV -- Melody & Harmony (with videos)

by rg
Sat Apr 12th, 2008 at 10:16:49 AM EDT

Saturday bump up! - In Wales

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A Journey into Sound Part III - Rhythm (lots of videos)

by rg
Sat Apr 5th, 2008 at 04:25:59 AM EDT

Saturday bump up, enjoy! - In Wales

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A Journey into Sound Part II - The Human Voice (lots of videos!)

by rg
Sat Mar 29th, 2008 at 04:42:38 AM EDT

Saturday bump up for our listening pleasure! - In Wales

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Jill Bolte Taylor's Stroke of Insight

by rg
Sat Mar 22nd, 2008 at 08:15:42 PM EDT

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Positive & Negative

by rg
Sat Mar 22nd, 2008 at 04:03:40 PM EDT

A good discussion for a rainy Saturday afternoon indoors... - Promoted by Migeru

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A Journey into Sound (WARNING: Lots of videos)

by rg
Wed Mar 19th, 2008 at 08:27:21 AM EDT

Music is a personal business.  What I like, you hate (maybe); and vice versa.  Finding a person who has the same tastes as you is rare; but the more I open my ears the more I hear the same kinds of things happening across musical styles; the more my ears are emancipated from their tribal affiliations the more they start to hear what's going on...

But what about a person who has never listened to music before?  They don't hold tribal affiliations, but also they don't know what everyone is talking about.  Music?

What's that?

Also, in my experience a lot of people's ears have been blunted to music through the constant background tunes that are used to (I suggest) hide the not-so-pleasant noises of modern life.

This is my attempt to build music up again from its elements, the first of which would be rhythm, but I want to leave that for now and start with musical sounds (pitches) that we can recognise but maybe haven't paid attention to recently.

Heh!  A journey into sound, as Eric B & Rakim said.

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ET Diaries - Vol 1

by rg
Fri Feb 1st, 2008 at 07:24:18 AM EDT

(Reaching for the book)

"What did you say it was called?"

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Lo The Darkness

by rg
Wed Dec 19th, 2007 at 12:37:41 PM EDT

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Maieutics: Or how I came upon MMM LLP's first project

by rg
Sat Nov 24th, 2007 at 06:22:09 AM EDT

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Arithmetic(s)--calling Jake S and kcurie!

by rg
Sun Nov 11th, 2007 at 06:24:43 PM EDT

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FIP

by rg
Mon Oct 29th, 2007 at 06:03:45 PM EDT

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Taking The Myth

by rg
Sun Oct 21st, 2007 at 06:59:10 AM EDT

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Is Google Evil?

by rg
Fri Sep 28th, 2007 at 05:57:03 AM EDT

Brave New World: a trilogy of sorts - promoted by Migeru

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Blackwater, Private Security Contractors "Making A Killing" by Magnifico
To Taser or Not to Taser? by rg

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Building Blocks

by rg
Tue Sep 25th, 2007 at 11:57:48 AM EDT

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To Taser or Not to Taser?

by rg
Tue Sep 25th, 2007 at 02:13:35 AM EDT

(Lifted from a salon comment at Nomad's request)

None of the following will make much sense unless you watch the clip

Welcome to the future — promoted by Migeru

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