The March issue of mini-AIR (our wee little monthly newsletter) just went out. You can read it online, too. Topics include: Musical stuff underwater Other musical stuff underwater Details about upcoming shows in UK, US, Switzerland More musical stuff underwater and more It also has info about upcoming events. Mel [pictured here] says, “It’s swell.” mini-AIR is the […]
Austrian Trumpet Bubbles (study)
Christoph Reuter, Univ.-Prof. Dr. (of the Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Austria) has not only investigated the Psychoacoustics of Chalkboard Squeaking, he’s also associated with a unique experiment which looked at ‘stabile Seifenblase am Schalltrichter der Trompete’ [trumpet with robust soap bubble at the bell] which is shown here in this video : NOTE: Improbable […]
The title translates awkwardly: Piano Music from Tropical Fish
Sometimes a study’s title translates awkwardly from one language into another. Here is such a case, with Chinese making an awkward transition into English: “On The Creation Of Piano Music For Children From Tropical Fish By Zhao Xi,” Jing Zhang, Huangzhong-Journal of Wuhan Music Conservatory, January 2003. “The paper show the writer’s opinions on creation […]
Zowie: “Wow”, the DNA code, interstellar communications
Many strands of thought weave together in this study: “The ‘Wow! signal’ of the terrestrial genetic code,” Vladimir I. shCherbak, Maxim A. Makukov, arXiv:1303.6739v1, March 27, 2013. (Thanks to investigator Vaughn Tan for bringing this to our attention.) The authors, at Kazakh National University and the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, both in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, […]