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sigh. i have fallen in love with the vitali chaccone, jaejoong’s “forgotten season”, bach chaccone, and dbsk’s “doushite”… and many more. all right. back to work!
so, in science and music, we finally get to the awesomer stuff! we learned that pitches are not just sound waves in the air. if you have a regular rhythm, and speed it up, eventually, you get a pitch. and you can combine rhythms to get intervals! An interval of a fifth has a 3:2 ratio of the frequencies of the notes of the fifth, but it can also be formed by a 3:2 ratio of rhythm -which means if you have someone tapping triplets and someone else tapping eighth notes, speeding that up will produce a fifth when we get past the point that our ears cannot distinguish the rhythms, and instead, perceive them as pitches! wow. super long, totemo luosuo de sentence….
the gift certificate i received is only good for entertainment stuff, not clothes. sad.
oh, right. i forgot to mention the flaming speaker. so, the science&music professor hooked up his iPod to a hollow tube. somehow, there’s gas pumping through the tube. the top of the tube has a row of holes, like a wooden flute. he lights a tiny flame in each of the holes, so when he turns on the iPod and plays music, the music is transmitted into the tube, varying the (gas distribution, flow?)idk, but you can see a wave of the little flames, growing shorter and taller. think: little flames=people’s arms doing the wave in a stadium. that’s what it looks like. and when the bass line beat out the rhythm, the flames flickered in time with the beat, and had especially dramatic flickers when there was an accent. wish i took a video of it and could post it. it was truly music+physics.
here in ny, grandma is stuffing my plate full of foodz every meal, every single day. here i whine: i can’t help it if i eat slow, and food makes me sleepy and stupid, and i wanna stay awake, so i don’t wanna eat so much!!! done whining. so, on the second day, opened my violin case to find, violin soaked with water, especially a spot on the shoulder that was bleached white… but it dried up after a while, and now everything looks normal. although, it sounds nasally on the a and e strings now. and i play a bit more awkwardly now. to remedy that, must drag out boring finger and bow exercises that i hate to play. too stuffed to write nemore. burp.
Well, this time I decided to make a page for Sibelius because I am learning his Violin Concerto right now and it might be my favorite violin concerto. But it is so hard to play
Mokona time!
A fated reunion!
I need my next post to be a physics one. This site has not been immersed in physics for a long time!
i’m happy! 2 concerts played, several more to go. it was raining when my dad drove us to rehearsal. and i was a little scared because the ground was wet and i thought i could feel the lessened friction between the tires and the road. then that made me think about slipping. so, drive slower on rainy days to keep within range of static friction instead of kinetic friction!
