Mother Earth Reclaimers

Back when this site was Montgomery Wards I was just a child and I remember Matt daring me to go the wrong way on the escalator.  I'm pretty sure I went around to the other side and came back down the wrong direction as well.  

the first shot is the entrance from the front gate. 

 This is from the top row of seats.

Pretty cool overall...I can already hear the over amplified cacophony of reflections off of the North and West walls.  The ambient noise reference seemed really high.  It was rush hour and lots of concrete and lots of traffic at the time... at least they off centered purposefully or not I don't know.  Ill try to find out.   Anyway...from the X marked spot  it's about 15 ms on the short side and 25 ms or so on the long side.  It is a cool acoustic structure because you can hear the sound get more forwardly directional when you move from the center towards under the awning arc. The second Picture is another good place to harmonize with your own reflection.  The echo will sound in sync about 2/3 to the right of the seating area.  Future Patrick will scrutinize it to death with the wizard skill of Metrology ..........in the future.
That being said....When the traffic finally dies down at about 330 am.  I'll be able to practice in a cool open  happy place of sonic safety.  I feel like this was built for me, because I need this right now.
Ive been using the dugout at memorial park

I've been starting my day with a stretch, quick high energy breakfast,a nice long cycle around to nearby interesting places and visiting new people and causing my name to be remembered.   I visited a well versed Mason to get a quick opinion on a pipe dream of an idea I dreamt last night.  I Somethings just can't be built to mystical perfection and work flawlessly forever and keep fine tolerances and be practical and practicable.  I really just stopped by to smell the coffee pet the puppy and stoke my idea engine.  Quest success   New Quest chain unlocked.

Tomorrow, as a day of rest and visitation of friends and friends that I call family and family that I don't call often enough.

But last thing's last. 

let my natural quirks do all the work

last in first out

hokey pokey

speaking of rowing your boat 

Even though I'm temporarily not operating machinery or vessels, I added cycling location quests and I might be doing some reclaiming and more upcycling if conditions permit it.  I want to spend as much of my time conquering random serendipity and being a more social being.   Blueprints that need taking off of the page.  Microwave thinking that melts the pages together as I write things down.  Questing Quests and other Wizardly metaphors to encourage and inspire maybe.  In a surrealist way, this has kind of been a positive shift, for the first time, perhaps ever.  

The good wood from the hoppin ice cream shop
I can smell the 2x4 full dimension rough hewn wyandotte framing members from cedar street
It wafted me like bacon.
I asked several times if they were sure they had no plans for it.
scavenge success

Wizards forge their own weapons just like Barbs  but with more elegant solutions.

Yesterday was a great day for science

I have been making a major shift in my self directed studies.  Doing what I love and avoiding all other things has already yielded           . results .   I sold some old junk for new junk

horn of bull

horn of bull when cast proper causes the neighbor Tracy to look out the door scratch his head and places a WTF expression on his face.  I asked him if he heard that crazy noise.  He thought it was a dying animal.  nope . It is already dead.

I turned in some videogames of shooting that I was no longer interested in.  |This is my new harmonica toolkit. 

The Honer Echo Celeste is the only harp that will remain unchanged.   I started out the re-tuning with cheapo harmonicas and now I'm comfortable wrenching on my irreplaceable German made reeds and completely unabashed with fiddling with any non-antique blues bands

I have been spending my restless time off by trying to disseminate  better musics.  I have been giving pawn shops and musicians and coffee shops my "card"  which is way cooler than a silly piece of card stock that was printed by a machine that feels no love for the recipient.  .....besides... since I do a little bit of everything ...they need to be customized for each persons individual needs.   Namely my selfish needs of currency.   

Why the antiquated analog device?

with such limitations of cut-off frequency?

for tuning

fortune-ing

Oh Fortuna!

a tuna w/ scales 

for tuning with the devices past fishy self

from another life

 in another time 

which it can physically never reiterate 

because it is now a new shape 

 i changed it's fate with a magnetic tape

a black box that traps its old harpy vox

Olfactory entrainment is an awesome thing I've been digging into lately.

this is the orange oil that I'm cooking

I call it anti-cortisol potion... has to be fresh.. not funky skunky.....the "trick" for me is to spend meditative practice with it as an anti-anger  anti-frustration being the focus of my meditation while the aroma encompasses.   I imagine remaining cool] in imaginary but provoking situations.   Then your tincture potion will literally have a special connection.   

Ill let you know how effective it is soonishly.....  The camphor and peppermint tinctures/aromapotions that I traded for have already been helpful for dispelling the effects of exasperating noises.

A new kind of horn.....if you make it through the theory lesson

For the last year I've been working a new horn design... or rather a modification.  Here is the shortest complete explanation:

All woodwind, brass instruments as well as (equal tempered)electric and acoustic pianos and fretted guitars all have intonation problems.  There isnt really a debate about this...only about how bad they are and how to correct them.  I consider all of these corrections imperfections or improper cheats resulting in a change in timbre and the overtones as a result.

embouchure (mouth shape) changes can be used on brass instruments  and single reeds (sax and clarinet) to bend the pitch up and down.

rolling the tone hole of flutes up or down changes the air direction and pitch up and down.

finger shading is covering up only part of a tone hole to lower the pitch(like flute and sax)

So what's wrong with brand new professional instruments that modern acoustic physicists still have to correct?
 Only our entire system of music for the last 200 years....... nothing.
And.
The devil that is equal temperament.

What is equal temperament? out of tune 11/12ths of the time in all keys equally(good for modulation)
what is just intonation? perfectly in tune. in one" key"
what is in tune?  the answer is ... in tune compared to what?

Our partially defunct system of 12 tones per octave is where we get the true "close enough for jazz" {I couldn't track down the origin of this phrase but it means not in tune or worse...I don't care if its not in tune(this phrase hurts me in the soul)}

Tolgahan Cogulu

Terpstra

 So... Whats is temperment and what is "wrong" with all of these instruments? The Unassailable (for the most part)laws of physics. 

To the left are the first 7 harmonics and if the line were a string ...would denote where to place your finger on a fretless instrument.  They are the lowest limit natural number fractions.   In fact this is almost exactly what the string actually does.  
ultra slowmotion violin bowed  
it starts getting crazy at about 1:30 and notice how when he releases the bow.... the string that was going back and forth starts jump-roping in 3D space. This spiral motion is in fact more what the actual sound looks like  in water and in Fire on a circle metal plate on a square metal plate.  
the patterns occur when the tone generator is "in tune" with one of the harmonics of the plate.   Coolest of all by far is dry ice visualization in air. wish they showed more of that...  I also enjoy that the metal plate or water cymatics appear strikingly similar to that of ancient Indian Mandalas.
Below is what the different harmonics of water look like.

click here for images of Mandalas 
so... what was the point of that? oh yeah.  acoustic instruments have to be of specific lengths. 
But which lengths you may ask? 1 2 and 3 corresponding to the three valves on most brass instruments

  now if you can't read music all you need to know is that those 3 valves combine to make 7 total lengths of horn and each of those lengths can play its own harmonic series exactly as in the string example above...unevenly..and more than 12 per octave because the 7 lengths divide the wider interval and as the  harmonic series rises it  getting closer to the previous tone and they become redundant () there are redundant notes but because of t  but the 7th harmonic is in ( )  so "out of tune" with the rest of them almost 30% lower or -30 cents compared to equal temperment.   ... 8 combinations if you're counting
but valve 3 is generally not used on its own.  it is a slightly different length than 1-2 combined.  there are other duplicate notes but the difference is they are being played on a  different harmonic with a different length of horn.  ie. the open C on the staff played on the third harmonic is different than the 2-3 played on the 4th harmonic.  The last two are the problem areas and the fix is relatively simple.  We "tune" 1-3  and 1-2-3 combos perfectly then we can't tune modes of 2-3 perfectly or 1-2 perfectly so professional horns usually have 2 triggers of slide extensions on 1 and 3.  This isn't perfect but a large portion of the tuning works for the entire range of the horn.
  Either the combination is imperfect or the single valve is imperfect.  This problem is nothing new.  In fact one of the original builders found other solutions around this problem.

both By Adolphe Sax.   

so the short of it...  Playing perfectly in tune in one key prevents you from being perfectly in tune in another key.  So what does it take to play perfect just intonation in 12 key centers? Without showing my math id say 256 it would put the percent error somewhere in the range of .01% or less.  Ive heard scholors agree on 96 equal or something called 66 shruti (unequal divisions) it was difficult to decide where to draw the line.  The highly prprecise divisions were tedious and mostly redundant. I decided on what I thought was the best math and the least redundancy.  It was a MIRACLE: multitudes of integer ratios approximated consistently, linearly, and evenly.   

72 fit nicely. It reduces just intonation corrections to 1% or less and we get to leave all the other notes where they have been.  What we need now are some new note symbols. Luckily the greek gods forsaw this problem back sometime around 2000 and solved it with the ingenius saggital notation  

my animals are cute

I imagine Lula snoring like Popeye

Tiny butterfly    artsy garden photo

 baby ducks at Heritage park

My Kind of town. Chicago is.

the "bean" also has interesting acoustic properties. 

we stopped at Bells Brewery on the way home.

I got some extra shakey camera shots of the trails in Heritage park.

Very shakey...lots of wind noise in the mic.

I stopped because I almost dropped my phone.

Rules and Regulations

this was in the rules and regulations.  lol..once im finished operating my instrument in an disturbing and annoying manner ill then blast my phonograph in and about the building

These are cell phone clips with the worst audio possible.  but Mp3s will be coming soon.