Tuesday, December 14
Actually Amazing
Currently expending work hours with:
- Erik Satie's "A Day in the Life of a Musician". Satie recounts his daily schedule down to the minute (including his "various occupations [of] fencing, reflection, immobility, visits, contemplation, dexterity, natation, etc."), his diet, and his comportment and habits ("I breathe carefully (a little at a time) and dance very rarely. When walking I hold my ribs and look steadily behind me."). We should all be so OCD.
- The High C, a survey of the extremes of pitch in human vocalization, with sound samples ranging from the contrabasso work of Russian choral music to the highest note in audio-recorded history (four G#'s above middle C) by Mariah Carey, with mostly opera in between. One of the 'tweens is Mado Robin, who sings a B3 [at tracktime 2:49] in this portion of the Lucia di Lammermoor mad scene:
MP3Download Mado Robin - "Spargi d'amaro pianto."
MP3 [48 kbps] | 1.12 MB - This photo:
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Wonder if he found anything nucyalear in there? Probably not.