Pitch @ MindSay

This is a video making the rounds on YouTube -- especially for geeks like me.



It's Van Halen at their recent Greensboro, NC concert playing "Jump."  But there are no keyboards onstage anywhere -- which means that the keys are already pre-sequenced by a synthesizer and ready to go.

Except that it appears that the synth parts were supposed to be played back at 44.1 kHz and were actually played back at 48 kHz.  What does that mean? It means that the pitch is suddenly (per the RW370 blog) "1.5 semitones sharp. So there’s no frets he can choose to fix the problem!"  It sounds like a glorious train wreck.

And for those of you who aren't as musically inclined -- it's just fun to see David Lee Roth look like a doofus -- twirling a stick and riding an inflatable microphone Mick-Jagger style.

In that old battle of the wills between young people and their keepers, the young have found a new weapon that could change the balance of power on the cellphone front: a ring tone that many adults cannot hear.

 

In settings where cellphone use is forbidden — in class, for example — it is perfect for signaling the arrival of a text message without being detected by an elder of the species.

 

"When I heard about it I didn't believe it at first," said Donna Lewis, a technology teacher at the Trinity School in Manhattan. "But one of the kids gave me a copy, and I sent it to a colleague. She played it for her first graders. All of them could hear it, and neither she nor I could."

 

The technology, which relies on the fact that most adults gradually lose the ability to hear high-pitched sounds, was developed in Britain but has only recently spread to America — by Internet, of course.

rainy days call out for an explosion of the creative mind when the outdoors leaves us with nowhere to go except inward, exploring the possibilitie of the human mind. i made this beat. i don't know where i left the creativity.

the drums.

improvised beat

i felt i had to make a remake of blur's song2.



let's talk =]

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the rain falls from the sky onto my roof. it is tired from the trip and stops to rest on the ground.

there is a strange focus when i wake up so early. it helps me concentrate.

i took this a few days ago. it was raining pretty hard and i attempted to take a picture of the rain in midair as it fell. the wind was blowing pretty hard and it gave it a change in path so that it would strike the ground at a diagonal angle. it looked violent outside. the most that this picture can give you is a more peaceful tone, unlike what was really happening.


at 5:47am, in the morning. from one room to another, it looked like the entrance to oblivion, the black eternal darkness. again, i had fiddled around with my camera to optimize what little light sources i had and bob's your uncle! there we have it.


so i took this picture of my backyard at night with no light. pitch black but this is what i ended up with. high iso speeds coupled with show shutter speed with a little boost from canon DiGiC imaging and voila!


so my bike got stolen, that's a given. my dad's friend wanted to help my case by giving me an old bike one of his sons used to drive. he knew it was small but stil wanted to help. so he gave it to me. my brother rides it now. i'm still bikeless.

idea:
dont you ever hear some high pitched frequency every once in a while, something so piercing it makes your ears hurt? yet nobody else hears it but you. the human ear operates at a certain level, some people have it different from others. in fact, each person operates at their own level. they have their own frequency that affects them. so if only i knew how to tune into those certain frequencies, i'd be able to talk to someone and only to that person. hum. different words trigger different reactions. to some people, some words can start an unexpected emotional response. now let's add those two together. to find the perfect sequences of sounds to affect somebody. it doesnt have to be auditory. think about paintings. a painting depicting the horrors of war can make a veteran cry. a certain photograph can make someone smile. but the extremes. can there ever be something so beautiful that it completes you, so beautiful that it can kill? the perfect song to unite a nation, to break apart diversities, to spread love towards humanity? the perfect words to make the perfect person. that's my idea

other idea:
we tend to unite to fight a certain cause. racial issues within a country can be neglected when they join up to fight a common foreign enemy. so my idea is this: let's let aliens invade and attack us just so we can unite to fight them back! it's logical isnt it?

another idea:
we must have peace while we have war. the two cannot exist without the other.