Strange Music Definition - Castrato

Castrato - Male singer who was castrated during boyhood to preserve the soprano or alto vocal register, prominent in seventeenth and early eighteenth century opera.

World Record Todd Taylor Fastest Banjo

Guinness World Record Todd Taylor Fastest Banjo



Dueling Banjos

Improvisation

I liked this snippet from this helpful site.

Take a certain chord sequence, play it over and over again and try to give each time a different feeling to your improvisation. Can you play anger, tenderness, laughter, fear, gossip, cynicism, indifference, sharpness, childishness, dizziness, curiosity, neurosis, grossness, dreaminess, denial and anything you can think about?

Soundwaves of the Color Wheel

From Sound Waves vs. Light Waves

Q: i heard this from a friend, color has sound. from what i think i understand ,if matter is condensed vibration and pigments have different weights ,the intensity of vibration in each pigment would cause a certain tone . i need clarification thanks.

A: The key background to this question is the nature of sound waves and light waves. You’re right in that sound waves are a vibration traveling through an object, including "condensed" things like solids and liquids. In solids, those waves can consist of either alternating compressed and stretched regions, or regions wiggling sideways, compared to the direction the wave is travelling. Light is a wave of oscillating electric and magnetic fields perpendicular to the direction it’s going. Light can travel fine through a vacuum, which can have fields in it, but there can’t be sound in a vacuum because there’s no stuff there to oscillate.

Audible sound has frequencies that cover a very big range, from about 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, meaning that the pressure at your ear oscillates back and forth 20 to 20,000 times per second. Each frequency gives a different audible pitch. Visible light has frequencies from around 4*10^14 Hz to around 8*10^14 Hz. Each frequency gives a slightly different visible color. Not only are the light frequencies much higher, but the highest one is only about twice the lowest one. The sound frequencies are much lower, and the highest one is a thousand times higher than the lowest one. So you can see that there’s no direct match between the sound and light oscillations.

If you are wondering what effect the pigments (light absorbers) in a material have on the type of sounds that come from it, the answer is usually: not much. There’s not much connection between the frequencies of light some pigment absorbs and the frequencies of audible sound it might absorb or emit. The color of a pigment also is really unconnected with the density or rigidity of the molecules, which affect how sound travels. Lots of different common pigments are organic compounds with densities not too far from 1 gram/cm^3, yet these provide a whole array of different colors.

This link leads to an interesting book that deals with metaphysics. It is helpful and friendly to musical people. Readable even for those like me who are not conditioned to reading this idiom. Itzhak Bentov is a genius.

Color Wheel Image came from this site.

Yo Yo Ma Quote

From this site I found the following quote.
YoYo Ma: “Never make a sound unless you hear it first.”
That is, have a mental concept of that tone quality, pitch, dynamic value, articulation, etc. you want to create – before you play/sing it.

Good advice. Though I like to pull things from nowhere from time to time. Helps to stoke the mystery and the mischif.

Derren Brown

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This has everything to do with music. This is a trip.

History of Keys.

Found a site that show has some history of Keys.

The site gives song samples and some background to the following instruments:
Piano, Fender Rhodes, Mellotron, Clavinet, Mini Moog, Synthesizers, Casio VL-tone, Wurlitzer, Hammond B3, Yamaha DX7, Theremin.

Animal of the Muppets

Animal

Banjo Vids

Been learning a little banjo. These are some exceptional videos I have been combing through. Including Dueling Banjos as posted earlier.









Steve Martin seems to busk at the crossroads where comedy and music intersect.

The Fluffy Bunnies like to put banjo on Fearless, and Wish You Here by Pink Floyd. These songs are nice to approach with a banjo. Good learning. The lyrics to these tunes are off the hook.






Ensemble La Volta (Switzerland)

Dill pickle Rag/Blackberry Rag/Blackberry blossom Instruments: Mandolin, Banjo, Guitar, Mexican Guitarron, Spoons

Pat Cloud

This book by Peter Wernick has been helpful as well.

Jacques Loussier : Bach, Pastorale in c minor

Jacques Loussier : Bach, Pastorale in c minor
Jazzy Classical.



Part 2



Jacques Loussier trio plays Bach: Pastorale c minor
Piano: Jacques LoussierBass: Vincent CharbonnierPercussion: André ArpinoRecorder live in Munich, 1989.