MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOS 2

VIRUS ALERT PACKAGES

Making up
Virus Alert packages
for stores (circ. 1993), a project
superimposed over the top of sonic tests using the
12 inch woofer suspended in open air in the corner by the patio door

MAKING TEMPLATES

Where all of
the templates were
designed, masters cut with
fine pointed graphic X-Acto knives,
mobiles assembled, pyramids, doilies, every
thing cut and used in sound tests in the new rented
3 bedroom house, was done sitting in this chair with work
spread around within hands reach. It was a very
convenient arrangement, put stuff away
when not needed, get it out and
spread it around when in
use, a very handy
arrangement.

FILE CABINATE
IN THE DINING ROOM

Where the plastic
mobile (the dud) was first
tried. Shortly after it and its makeshift
pencil holder stand were moved over to the opposite
corner at the front of the file cabinate where there it stayed
for two years, marginally assisting sound entering the dining room,
wrapping around corners from the far distant rear of the the living room

COUPLING TEST

BS.
Look at
the undulating
table. It is perfectly
flat. That is how much cheap
camera lens can distort a picture.


Two drivers
coupled in series
and facing the getto blaster's
hanging faceplates off camera to the left.
It was never found that focusing open air speakers
toward each other produced quality resonance sounds. It didn't
matter if speakers were hooked off a single Mono lead in series or if
those facing were piped from the other channel. Neither sung songs. The best
orientation for any speakers in use was found to have them all uniformly
focused in the same direction to an invisible point of
center somewhere in the sound stream.


There was indication
that six speakers resonating
in the open air in a hexagram setup
all pointed to the center node had something
worth pursuing, the six speakers spread out to about a
5 or 6 foot diameter, and perhaps a 7th speaker pointing straight
up to the ceiling as a center point passive resonator. A few
quick tests indicated that this arrangement could be
worth pursuing. I could not, not having the
right gear or even 6 approximately
equal type speakers. I did hear
stuff that was interesting
while briefly fooling
around with six
sided speaker
arrays.

CLUSTERING

A bunch of sonic
tuning device objects
gathered together to see how they
might work clustered close together in a small area.
It was thought separated by about 5 1/2 inches, roughly the
distance between a pair of human ears, might produce
improved sonics but in many such tests tried
it was never found that clustered
objects worked best. The
best was to have
major tuning
objects
spread
out and
around some
best at long distances.


The above,
a test in which
starflake tuning devices
were clustered in a small area close
together in a corner. At times clustering seemed
to work but always inevitably better results were obtained
by moving devices out into more open spaces. The ferris wheel however
liked that back corner and stayed there throughout the last
few experiments and rounds of tests leading to the
jaw dropping experiment. The bird cage found
a place on the front corner of the mantle
closest to the rear living room wall
and stayed there till the end. The
sonic starflakes on stands were
constantly on the move being
placed here and there at
times only a half inch
shifted. The cluster
in this photo took
more than a day
to position.



KITCHEN CLUSTER

When
experiments
with slinkies first
got underway a cluster like
this took form on the shelf in the
kitchen constantly being changed perpetually
being moved around every few hours every few days adding a marginal
degree of stability and sonic range into a very unstable sound
stream that came and went by the minute by the hour as
experiments and tests were progressed. Among the
cluster objects are six sided wooden beads
got from a kiddies toy being cleared
out for a buck each at the dollar
store, the toys not a bad
deal but so badly
glued together
in some
oriental's
basement overseas
that no respectable store
would sell them. The wooden six sided
beads were more than good enough for quick sound
fixes. When the sound stream got built up to where it was
inherently stable, such wooden beads became spoilers and no hot
spot could be found for them anywhere in the environment. The
whole lot was swept away with a sweep of the hand into
a stainless steel bowl and put in storage on the
lower shelf, then in a box with a bunch of
other stuff in the move to South Ottawa
and are still there in the box, no need
no experiment no research the new 50
year old red brick house is too small.
If a next round of research it will be with
expensive equipment and high quality sound
source gear to see what better rather than the worst
sonic sound sources might reveal. In particular, the goal
in fantasy in the mind is to see what can be done with dual channel
high quality equipment on original Glen Millar mono recordings, see if
it is possible to bring back that awesome orchestra live
in a large room. I think it can be done.







A piece of ordinary
grass from the lawn continues
to grow as a nifty house plant all winter long.


In this cluster
besides wooden beads
there are two small six sided
ink handstamps of the world, quess where
bought the dollor store for a buck. This two piece item
worked actually very well as temporary tuners and continued
to be used though a couple of years to the end. The stamp
part stood on end with its hexagon pad in the air
could be rotated in extreme small degrees in
a hot spot to produce good juice. The
hexagon cap was on edge, needing
exact hot spots to do any
good and at most were
in use interim. Both
pieces are seen
amongst the
wooden
beads. The
upright hexagon
on shaft was constantly
being moved around within a small
area comprising its hot spot, almost invariably as
something was tuned in the living room or elsewhere the upright
hexagon then needed also to be retuned. The point of this trivial news is
that the entire realm of the sonic experiments was inherently unstable,
in that in effect the whole of the environment was being turned
into a loudspeaker enclosure with you walking around
freely inside so naturally anything that moved or
was moved could effect or change the sound.
With a workable proviso the stronger the
sound generating source the less the
ambiant chaos within the whole
environment loudspeaker.

In the above photo
an orange and purple hexagon
on post is against the wall at the front
of the shelf, its orange cap between wooden beads,
a yellow and green hexagon on post on the other front corner
of the shelf where it fequently fell off, its yellow hexagon cap aligned
on the shelf edge. As already said, these hexagon uprights
were excellent conducers, most useful in a brand
new test to quickly get some useful sound
set up by noticably exciting the
sonics. After a new sound
had been built up their
effect became almost
negligable and sometimes
they would become spoilers, put away
until the immediate next testing or experiment
and immediately out they would come. Objects like these are
very useful, to get something better from any sound
source, three were used when first moved into
the South Ottawa brick house to quickly
get something besides noise from
the cheap RCA stereo TV, they
have been put away because
where they were hottest
was on a glass 4 tiered
shelf that wobbles in footsteps
and they kept falling over, but two really
good hot spots have pulsed sonic discrupters sitting on
edge and just these are good enough to get base and reverberating
long lasting echoes into the TV'S sound, plus, women's
voices sound like women when the two
disrupters are working. One
fell off the fireplace
one day. The two
have been
working
in the same
locations for over
a year now, circ. May, 1997.




DONE


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