Archive for February, 2006
February 28th, 2006
Setsubun soundscape
I was in attendance at the Setsubun festival in Kyoto. It is a celebration of the New Year in which people are encouraged to bring things to burn in a large fire. This act symbolizes the “letting go” of the old to make way for the new. I arrived very late, near midnight, the booths and foodstands […]
February 28th, 2006
Oops ! I made a mistake
In the beginning of the interview “The Bombing of Babylon” I said that Natalie Stanchfield attended the X Color exibit in Tokyo. It actually took place in Mito. Sorry.
February 20th, 2006
“The Bombing of Babylon”: interview with Natalie Stanchfield
Podcast number two. I talk with Natalie Stanchfield, a Long Island University student at the Friends World Program in Kyoto, Japan, about her recently published paper: “The Bombing of Babylon” which can be seen on graffiti.org We discuss graffiti in Japan its beginnings and its blossoming.
The music used in this interview is:
Car Wash by Rose […]
February 20th, 2006
“Dude” as a linguistic tool
Yesterday, while sipping coffee at a fine cafe in Kyoto, my friends and I exchanged a bit of English slang for tutoring in Japanese.
We discussed the versitality of the word “dude.” Not only can it be used in such phrases as ” Knarly dude!” or “Dude that was totally heinous,” but it can also be […]
February 15th, 2006
Hound Dog Taylor
Here is a groovy video of Hound Dog Taylor I found on the blog of Victor Chen. If you want to see some epic west side Chicago blues baby this is it!
February 14th, 2006
Computers and Nature
In modern society computers have become so much a part of our lives that the familiarity of their sounds has become a pleasant addition to the soundscape. On the Blog Sonic Walden, I found these quotes:
“Further, participants described natural settings, when directly asked to identify their favorite listening place(s). I have included a couple of […]
February 14th, 2006
More on primal unitiy or tonal center
A comment I received inspired me to write another post about tonal centers. Generators, electric lights, and signs have a recordable pitch. A study was done by Murray Shaefer in a small town in Sweden where he plotted these frequencies on a sound map. He found that these pitches created a G sharp major triad. Furthurmore, when a train went by he found […]
February 11th, 2006
Kyotos tonal frequency
The buzz of heaters, computers, lights and air conditioners all have a frequency based on the type of alternating current a given location runs on. Japan runs on 50 cycles per second, in other words 50hz. Therefore, if A is tuned to 440hz Kyoto’s tonal frequency would be G sharp.
James L. Oschman, author of Energy […]
February 7th, 2006
International Man of Mystery
“Mistakes, I’ve made a few, but then again…”
At last the first podcast of Bamboo and Motorbikes has been completed. It is an interview with Delmark recording artist Sho Komiya, who played bass all over Chicago for 12 years and is currently living in Tokyo. I knew alot about Sho before I did the interview, and […]
February 7th, 2006
cars are cool
Car talk is one of my favourite shows on National Public Radio and it can be heard(as well as many of other NPR shows) on a podcast. Click and Clack the Tappet brothers talk at length about cars, car maintinence, car bargains and more. Tune in it is hilarious.
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