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Quirky Things One Does

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:27 AM

RUE

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Here's my contribution, with some explanation.

Laboratories are noisy places with lots of different background sounds. Turbo-pumps whine, liquid nitrogen hisses as it off-gases, solenoids click quietly each in its own tempo, motors hum, hoods whoosh as air is drawn through, sonicators buzz, the AC provides continuo - even computer fans contribute.

If there's no one around making specific sounds, my brain confabulates music from the noise *. It sounds like someone left a radio quietly playing a few benches away. And it's all sorts of music. Gregorian chant, country and western, African drumming, Indian ragas, jazz, African church hymns ... all very interesting and musically more sophisticated than anything you'll hear in real life. I've actually recorded some of this music (by vm, before I forgot).

Not very often, maybe three or four times a year, I'll go into the lab in the evening after everyone is gone, and sit for twenty minutes or so to enjoy the music.

* Before anyone gets snarky (RvrLv, Zit, et al, you know who you are), it's a common neurological occurrence.


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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:45 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM



...that sounds lovely, although, when George Jones kicks in - i would be outta there! (time to reboot)

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:49 AM

WHOZIT


I had no intention of getting "snarky", because I have no idea what that means.

I'm going to microwave a bagel and have sex with it - Peter Griffin

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:59 AM

RUE

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I actually had to look up George Jones.

Though the music I hear is original to me, once it was in the style of Hank Williams, one of my favorite c&w singers. Another time it sounded like I don't know who, singing about the lonely life of the long distance trucker on the road. I never know what I'll 'hear'.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:33 AM

DEADLOCKVICTIM


Having spent several years in the publishing industry, I can truly say that there is little to match - note for note - the dulset tones of the 8 unit Heidleberg Speedmaster.... talk about your heavy metal..!

eta - it goes to 11..!

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:25 PM

DREAMTROVE


Huh,

Kathy, I've had that experience, trying to get back there. As a musician, tis where some of the best music comes from. That an meticulous construction. It bugs me endlessly that all young people are only attracted to 1:4:5, it's terribly simple a solution.

Myself, I like Nightwish.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:31 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

sonicators buzz


Good band name.



Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:33 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by rue:
I actually had to look up George Jones.

Though the music I hear is original to me, once it was in the style of Hank Williams, one of my favorite c&w singers. Another time it sounded like I don't know who, singing about the lonely life of the long distance trucker on the road. I never know what I'll 'hear'.

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Download a few classic George Jones songs. You'll be a fan. You'll get choked up, too. There may even be tears.

"He Stopped Loving Her Today"
"Brown to Blue"
"A Good Year For the Roses"

Try those out. And I'm NOT a big C&W fan, but I'm a sucker for a well-written song, and country music tends to have some of the hookiest lines.

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:58 PM

DEADLOCKVICTIM


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:

"He Stopped Loving Her Today""



biggest. tear-jerker. EVER.


gee, i though CW stood for crack whore....

not a fan of the music..... can you tell

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:55 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up


When I was working (Which I no longer do. Giggle) I used to sit near the copier room, a high speed printer, and a big plotter. When they all got going, you didn't need a radio; just make up your own melody to go with the rhythm section.

Course that meant I was also the one everyone came to when the copier/printer/plotter didn't work.

"Keep the Shiny side up"

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:38 PM

DREAMTROVE


All genres of music can be awesome. country has the weakness that a high % of what gets played on the radio is factory produced by nashville. Pop/Rock is starting to have a serious problem with this, and Rap/Hip Hop has such a serious problem with it that you can buy computer programs that will write the songs for you now and put them on youtube and the fanbase will never know the dif. I've been listening to some tween music lately, just to stay on top. It's depressingly simple, but I think image heavy. I don't know how discerning the audience is, but I think a breakthrough band could slice through and become a god to the genre, if they hit the right emotional level. Objectively, I think most of the talent right now is in metal, and in Europe. I also think it's for a totally dif. reason than people would suspect. I was in eastern europe after the collapse of the iron curtain, almost every year, and the number of classically trained highly skilled musicians coming out of that was just phenomenal. For all I attack socialism as a system, there are things I deeply admire about the USSR. This talent, coupled with its new found ultranationalism was bound to lead somewhere. There's some bands in american metal that try, and sometimes succeed, at least hit the level of popular music, but I'm seeing a whole new level here, a sort of Beethoven level, or at least queen.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 2:53 PM

RUE

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"I used to sit near the copier room ..."

We have a copier that does the rhythm for "We Will Rock You" as it spits out copies. We have a GC where the lN2 (liquid nitrogen) solenoid does the rhythm for "Oye Como Va". Seriously.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:15 PM

DEADLOCKVICTIM



ooooooh, Santana... I always liked the song Got a Black Magic Marker.....

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:24 PM

RUE

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Quote:

Santana ... Got a Black Magic Marker.....
DAMN !

Now every time I hear that song that's all I'll be thinking !

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:02 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Have a computer with six drives and many fans, and it sings.... long, intricate Gregorian-type chants. Lovely.


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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:22 PM

DREAMTROVE


Have an utterly silent homebuilt laptop like me :)
Part of my plan to cut down on my tinnitus so I can think

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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:28 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Quote:

Originally posted by rue:
Here's my contribution, with some explanation.

Laboratories are noisy places with lots of different background sounds. Turbo-pumps whine, liquid nitrogen hisses as it off-gases, solenoids click quietly each in its own tempo, motors hum, hoods whoosh as air is drawn through, sonicators buzz, the AC provides continuo - even computer fans contribute.

If there's no one around making specific sounds, my brain confabulates music from the noise *. It sounds like someone left a radio quietly playing a few benches away. And it's all sorts of music. Gregorian chant, country and western, African drumming, Indian ragas, jazz, African church hymns ... all very interesting and musically more sophisticated than anything you'll hear in real life. I've actually recorded some of this music (by vm, before I forgot).

Not very often, maybe three or four times a year, I'll go into the lab in the evening after everyone is gone, and sit for twenty minutes or so to enjoy the music.

* Before anyone gets snarky (RvrLv, Zit, et al, you know who you are), it's a common neurological occurrence.


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I hear music that isnt there all the time. I often will hear a completey different tune under a tune that is playing. For instance the resort I work at pipes music in all over the facility and my brain will often pick out a completely different tune to what is being played. Just the other day I heard Greensleeves under a Jimmy Buffett song.

I also "see" people in my peripheral vision that aren't there.

Its creepy and either the penguins are out to get me or I am insane.

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

FORSAKEN original

Yes We Did!




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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:47 PM

KIRKULES


Quote:

Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
Its creepy and either the penguins are out to get me or I am insane.



Just because you're insane doesn't mean the penguins aren't out to get you.


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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:46 AM

FREMDFIRMA


Not as uncommon as you might think FMF, both phenomenae are well documented.

Corner-eye people or "blinkies" as some call them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people

The Earthsong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

Audible Aurora.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=923

I *can* hear the earthsong, most folk hear it as just a dull hum, but there are tones and shifts within it, and I suspect these subtle shifts are what animals pick up on when they start freaking out just before an earthquake.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:28 AM

RIVERLOVE


Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:
Have a computer with six drives and many fans, and it sings.... long, intricate Gregorian-type chants. Lovely.


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Let's party like its 1929.


Originally posted by SignyM:

Please, don't come whining at me about how horrible I am for calling you names, you drunken, death-loving cunt.

I hope you die in your own drunken vomit.

and BTW Fuck you.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:01 AM

RUE

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"I often will hear a completey different tune under a tune that is playing."

I suspect you're responding to harmonics and beat-frequencies most people have literally tuned out. These can be caused by 60 (or 50) cycle hum, physical vibrations of the sound system and building etc.

"I also "see" people in my peripheral vision that aren't there."

That sometimes happens to me, but usually under some individual, or combination of, these factors: too little sleep, too much caffeine, too many B vitamins, especially B12 and folate. (I suspect the B vitamins cause a relative dopamine overdose. Too much dopamine in, say, Parkinson's patients being treated with dopamine (L-Dopa), is well known for causing people to see things. These things range from the movement you see out of the corner of your eye to well formed objects like a cat sleeping in a chair. Anti-viral medication like amantadine will also cause dopamine toxicity and people will see things with it as well.)

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:57 AM

RUE

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Oh yeah, DT

It takes a very specific type of input for me to hear music under noise. It can't be too random (not white or pink noise), OTOH it can't be too structured either.

FMF is lucky - apparently she can hear it under structured sounds in the noise most people tune out.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 5:31 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Riverlove:
Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:
Have a computer with six drives and many fans, and it sings.... long, intricate Gregorian-type chants. Lovely.


---------------------------------
Let's party like its 1929.


Originally posted by SignyM:

Please, don't come whining at me about how horrible I am for calling you names, you drunken, death-loving cunt.

I hope you die in your own drunken vomit.

and BTW Fuck you.
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Let's party like its 1929




Well, now we know what tune River hears. Over, and over, and over, and over...

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 5:40 PM

KIRKULES


Quote:

Originally posted by Riverlove:
Quote:

Originally posted by SignyM:
Have a computer with six drives and many fans, and it sings.... long, intricate Gregorian-type chants. Lovely.


---------------------------------
Let's party like its 1929.


Originally posted by SignyM:

Please, don't come whining at me about how horrible I am for calling you names, you drunken, death-loving cunt.

I hope you die in your own drunken vomit.

and BTW Fuck you.
---------------------------------
Let's party like its 1929



Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: I've staked my crew's life on the theory that you're a person, actual and whole, and if I'm wrong, you'd best shoot me now...
[River cocks the gun she is pointing at Mal]
Capt. Malcolm Reynolds: Or, we could talk some more.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:22 PM

DREAMTROVE


Okay, I admit, I was very irritated on another thread, and okay, sometimes the caveman is insulting and immature, but that was clever. Mike, you too.

River, seriously, you've deprived this forum of it's River, and it's so hard to find another one for the crew.

Ya know, I think she ran away when she made the misstep to expose her more numerical side. She fears humans. They make attachments, make her feel. She wants to be an island.

Don't worry, we're not good friends, I'm sure you won't get attached to us. We hurl stuff all the time, you know that. But if Finn and FMF were suddenly to leave, we would still miss them.

"I think I'll miss you least of all, Wiploc"

I just noticed, ya know, I think in all these years that the two of them have never had an exchange? I this possible? I can't recall one. It must've happened. I mean Finn McCool and FMF.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:04 PM

FUTUREMRSFILLION


Quote:

Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
Not as uncommon as you might think FMF, both phenomenae are well documented.

Corner-eye people or "blinkies" as some call them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people

The Earthsong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum

Audible Aurora.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=923

I *can* hear the earthsong, most folk hear it as just a dull hum, but there are tones and shifts within it, and I suspect these subtle shifts are what animals pick up on when they start freaking out just before an earthquake.

-Frem

It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it



Frem -
But what do you do when the "blinkies" are fully formed people?

Rue - not sure I would call it lucky, it can be really distracting and then there are the people that look at you funny when you ask if they hear it too!

I am on The List. We are The Forsaken and we aim to burn!
"We don't fear the reaper"

FORSAKEN original

Yes We Did!




“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi

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