I am reeling, Chris, simply reeling. I don't know what I'm going to do, it's so much to take in. Give me time, mate, I'll get there. Oh the changes, they're too much...
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I am reeling, Chris, simply reeling. I don't know what I'm going to do, it's so much to take in. Give me time, mate, I'll get there. Oh the changes, they're too much...
As long as it changes back to the 'al fresco office worker' on 1.1.13 - or the young lady wearing the tight fluffy pink angora sweater comes out! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Grand Wazoo
I swap mine all the time but i think this ones a keeper. I tried to create a Tutankhamun type effect with the BSS cover
It's a good one, Andr'e. Instantly recognisable.
I always prefer these types of Avatar for you André, they just fit ;)
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...ig/image-1.jpg
That's my dog Archie with his "welcome home" smile, snapped as we came in one day, it does put people of entering the house mind.
Cos I like Quadrophenia and I like Kelham Island's beers. Simple as that!
Changed my Avatar for 2013 - probably going to stick with this one now, as its a little more discreet.
Anyway, as many here post pictures of their equipment, I thought it pertinent to have a picture of a computer hard disk drive (just in case you didn't realise what it was), as I am fully committed to file based audio. It shows the innards with the disk platters, arm and pick-up head. As Chris (TGW) noticed in another thread, it looks like a stack of records - not that different eh? A spinning disk with an arm reading information from the disk, you just can't see it :eyebrows:
File based audio is the future even if we don't want it, at least until people store all their music in the cloud and stream it to smart phones, tablets and smart TV's which will be the central hub. No reason why most of us shouldn't have a turntable and a music server in the furture, then you have the best of both worlds - I predict that within 10 years CDP's will be a thing of the past and no longer manufactured, they will be a vintage niche product and new CD's (if you can find them) will be more expensive than vinyl, manufactured mostly for lovers of classical music.
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w...psc9e8f0b9.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Russolo
Luigi Russolo was perhaps the first noise artist.[3][4] His 1913 manifesto, L'Arte dei Rumori, translated as The Art of Noises, stated that the industrial revolution had given modern men a greater capacity to appreciate more complex sounds. Russolo found traditional melodic music confining and envisioned noise music as its future replacement.
The Art of Noises classified "noise-sound" into six groups:
Roars, Thunderings, Explosions, Hissing roars, Bangs, Booms
Whistling, Hissing, Puffing
Whispers, Murmurs, Mumbling, Muttering, Gurgling
Screeching, Creaking, Rustling, Buzzing,[5] Crackling, Scraping [5]
Noises obtained by beating on metals, woods, skins, stones, pottery, etc.
Voices of animals and people, Shouts, Screams, Shrieks, Wails, Hoots, Howls, Death rattles, Sobs
He designed and constructed a number of noise-generating devices called Intonarumori and assembled a noise orchestra to perform with them. A performance of his Gran Concerto Futuristico (1917) was met with strong disapproval and violence from the audience, as Russolo himself had predicted. None of his intoning devices have survived, though recently some have been reconstructed and used in performances. Although Russolo's works bear little resemblance to modern noise music, his pioneering creations cannot be overlooked as an essential stage in the evolution of the several genres in this category,[6][7] and many artists are now familiar with his manifesto.
At first the art of music sought purity, limpidity and sweetness of sound. Then different sounds were amalgamated, care being taken, however, to caress the ear with gentle harmonies. Today music, as it becomes continually more complicated, strives to amalgamate the most dissonant, strange and harsh sounds. In this way we come ever closer to noise-sound.[8]
Antonio Russolo, another Italian Futurist composer and Luigi's brother, produced a recording of two works featuring the original Intonarumori. The 1921 made phonograph with works entitled Corale and Serenata, combined conventional orchestral music set against the famous noise machines and is the only surviving sound recording.[9]
Russolo and Marinetti gave the first concert of Futurist music, complete with intonarumori, in April 1914 (causing a riot).[10] The program comprised four "networks of noises" with the following titles:
Awakening of a City
Meeting of cars and aeroplanes
Dining on the terrace of the Casino and
Skirmish in the oasis.
Some of his instruments were destroyed in World War II; others have simply disappeared.[11]
Drawn by my (then) 7 year old son.
Its one I use in various nom de plumes around t'internet so that you can tell your Obs, Obdewllas, Obdullas and Sister Ob'dwella 'Xs apart.
I always think it should have the tag: In space no one can hear you drink!