Bass Maker Elektra Pow wow – Day 4 recap!

November 7th, 2010

Things are winding down but yesterday was très big so allons-y! Started things off with a talk on BASS by PhD candidate and DJ Paul Jasen. In about 90 minutes, Paul covered the use of bass and its impact on the body from the earliest incarnations of the pipe organ in 300 B.C. right to […]

(sub)Mix: Vibration Sympathique

October 18th, 2010

Not sympathy in the sentimental sense.  Sympathetic vibration has nothing to do with the personal or emotional. For Helmholtz, it meant transduction of energy, resonance induced in a body – a room, a building, a glass, an eyeball – by an external force.  At its resonant, or natural, frequency a body ceases to dampen energy […]