I am such a geek

[kenjari]

This evening I was practicing the left hand of the last movement of Beethoven's Sonata in Eb when a helicopter flew overhead. It approached as I was playing the cadence on Eb. The frequency of the helicopter noise was just slightly off from the Eb. I kept playing the Eb (Eb-2, if you're curious), listening to the dissonance. As the helicopter came closer, it got more in tune with the Eb, then dissonant again as it faded away. It was very cool.

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[epilimnion.livejournal.com]

Ha ha. You are a music geek. But I wish I could have heard this moment. I'm a music geek too, and have spent the last week jumping up and down over my cool sound processing results. And, a few weeks ago, I went into a detailed description of why the screech of the outbound T at Harvard is in fact a wonderful, rather than horrible, sound. Mmm, singing rails over the bass rumble of the train.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

It was indeed pretty nifty. Especially the way the two timbres worked together - they are both kind of rumbly, but in very different ways. I felt very John Cage/4'33" about the whole thing.