Beyond hardware
>From: Troy Sheets <[email address removed]>
>Subject: beyond hardware.
>To: [email address removed]
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 02:15:54 -0800 (PST)
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>I think this is unique to good analogue synths because those fatty
>capacitors and discrete transistors add so much warmth to the sound
>by producing natural resonance and harmonics in the signal. In a
>sense, it is noise. But it is not that horrible, high-frequency
>digital noise, it is warm, thick noise. But if you listen to the noise
>carefully enough, you can here that it is in fact mathematically
>predictable signal. "Mathematically predictable" meaning if you really
>studied the circuit at a "physics" level, you could calculate out this
>noise.
>
>The deeper you concentrate on these complexities in the texture of the
>sound, the more appreciation you have for the complexity of the system
>generating the sound. Sometimes, I feel I can nearly see the grid
>of circuits the electrons are flowing through to create the sound.
>
>This is an almost euphoric experience. By concentrating more and more
>on the sounds, it gets to the point where you are no longer just
>listening to the music. You are a part of it. The music gets into
>your head and it nearly takes control of your brain. But this
>positive thing, because once the music is controlling you brain, it can
>start to take you higher (or, I suppose it could take you down too, but
>I'm into listening to music that makes me feel up, not down)
>
>No other instrument I have ever heard effects my brain like this. I am
>not sure why. It is probably because analog synths produce such
>mathematically pure music. All other acoustical instruments have
>to much natural noise in them... my brain can't detect the mathematics
>in the natural noise because it is just to complex.
>
>I can let analogue synthesized music raise me into very high, euphoric
>states. I think the mind-set I achieve while listening to this music is
>similar to what people reach when they practice mediation for years
>and years. I think I am taking a shortcut to that sort of mental
>void that is so euphoric.
>
>I take this euphoric feeling with me into the rest of my life, and I
>really think I enjoy life more because of it. Spirituality through
>electrical engineering.
>
HEAR!! HEAR!! YES! NOW HERE'S A GOOD SPUD!! THIS IS THE BEST SHIT I'VE SEEN
IN YEARS!! TROY HAS JUST EXPLAINED WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!!!!!!
DIS POST IS DA BOMB!!!!!!:):):):) ;>
>(everyone knows that electronic parts run on
>smoke- that's whay they don't run so well when you let the smoke out of
>'em..).
Beyond hardware
>From: Troy Sheets <[email address removed]>
>Subject: beyond hardware.
>To: [email address removed]
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 02:15:54 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>
>I think this is unique to good analogue synths because those fatty
>capacitors and discrete transistors add so much warmth to the sound
>by producing natural resonance and harmonics in the signal. In a
>sense, it is noise. But it is not that horrible, high-frequency
>digital noise, it is warm, thick noise. But if you listen to the noise
>carefully enough, you can here that it is in fact mathematically
>predictable signal. "Mathematically predictable" meaning if you really
>studied the circuit at a "physics" level, you could calculate out this
>noise.
>
>The deeper you concentrate on these complexities in the texture of the
>sound, the more appreciation you have for the complexity of the system
>generating the sound. Sometimes, I feel I can nearly see the grid
>of circuits the electrons are flowing through to create the sound.
>
>This is an almost euphoric experience. By concentrating more and more
>on the sounds, it gets to the point where you are no longer just
>listening to the music. You are a part of it. The music gets into
>your head and it nearly takes control of your brain. But this
>positive thing, because once the music is controlling you brain, it can
>start to take you higher (or, I suppose it could take you down too, but
>I'm into listening to music that makes me feel up, not down)
>
>No other instrument I have ever heard effects my brain like this. I am
>not sure why. It is probably because analog synths produce such
>mathematically pure music. All other acoustical instruments have
>to much natural noise in them... my brain can't detect the mathematics
>in the natural noise because it is just to complex.
>
>I can let analogue synthesized music raise me into very high, euphoric
>states. I think the mind-set I achieve while listening to this music is
>similar to what people reach when they practice mediation for years
>and years. I think I am taking a shortcut to that sort of mental
>void that is so euphoric.
>
>I take this euphoric feeling with me into the rest of my life, and I
>really think I enjoy life more because of it. Spirituality through
>electrical engineering.
>
HEAR!! HEAR!! YES! NOW HERE'S A GOOD SPUD!! THIS IS THE BEST SHIT I'VE SEEN
IN YEARS!! TROY HAS JUST EXPLAINED WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!!!!!!
DIS POST IS DA BOMB!!!!!!:):):):) ;>
>(everyone knows that electronic parts run on
>smoke- that's whay they don't run so well when you let the smoke out of
>'em..).