PAPER SONIC PYRAMIDS

This 1st image
does not show its
details well but it is the
only existing photo that shows the
pyramid in an experiment. Three large art
paper geometry cutouts are stacked one atop the other.
To the right sitting on top of a clear plastic juice container
is a mono FM clock radio. At the back wall is a getto blaster consul
with its two tape deck doors open to marginally improve the
sound stream by an iota by letting the sound waves
echo into the open chambers of the tape
decks. The getto blaster is not
in use, the sound generating
source for this experiment
is the clock radio.


At the moment
of this photo a small
single speaker (2 inch tweeter)
clock radio is being used as the sonic
generating source set on the juicer immediately
to the right of the pyramid. The getto blaster consul at
the back wall is off. The sonic from this settup was very hard and
barky yet there was base and piccolo, and stereophonic sonics
that carried to the front of the house out into the
street with the clock radio at full volume.
By itself, with no sonic enviroment,
the clock radio at full crank
made only a high pitched
shrieking piss. At
lower volumes
there was
no bass
or small
cymbols whatever.
Sonically excited by the
nearby pyramid and other sonic tunements
throughout the main floor of the house the mono FM
clock radio produced stereo that at times was completely point
source in terms of specifying where exactly the sax was located, the
drummer's high hat, the trumpet far back to the left in the
back row, etc. etc. But, a very hard sonic to accomodate
as pleasurable listening, easy listening it was
not. Way too hard. Way to sharp. Barky.


AN UNUSUAL EVENT

When the pyramid of the above image was first
being assembled step by careful step
a very unusual occurrance
took place.


Getting the pyramid
assembled and stable on the
floor was very difficult, tuning its
best position not hard since it was on a piece of
pressboard which could be instantly slid, moved, and rotated.
Each layer was separated by paper tripods, a set made that were too small
coming together as a final rosette from of enhancers on three nodes
of the top plate hexagram platform, these on top most critical
of all, they either worked or didn't there was no room
for error in where they were exactly placed
and how (which direction the
feet stuck up).







THE ICE ARENA


During tests
after assembly other
objects in the room were re-tuned
and re-tuned by going around adjusting each
object again and again in rotation to gradually build up
more and more stereophonic sound and long distance reverberating
echoes coming from the mono TV cranked to full volume. At first the sound
kept breaking up and there was lots of rattle, but, gradually, the
rattle faded then was gone, as was hiss, and long distance
more powerful sonic resonances kept moving more and
more into the sound picture. It was interesting
because this was Canada's host international
annual world figure skating championships
and everything was being broadcast live
from inside a giant ice arena, music
for the skaters coming over those
huge echoing sound systems that
such arenas have, and then the
local voices of broadcasters
and commentators coming
in from rinkside, plus of
course that organ that
only a god could love always
coming in for two or 4 bars whenever
nothing else was happening. What happened suddenly
is that something gelled. The sound just sort of gradually
swelled on its own, and moved back and sideways out beyond the living
room and just as far back behind the TV as you could visualize
being in an ice arena and the volume more than doubled
all on its own. What a mighty sound. Now, no false
boasts, FIDELIC it was not, distorted and
sort of spongy is a good word, but huge,
powerful and reverbs that lasted long
seconds before fading, very true to
life in other words regarding such
long hanging loud echoes. Booms
and kabooms you would not believe
almost thundered through the house, it
was I would say better than surround sound in
a major motion picture theatre in terms of how long
the giant area kept the echos moving in that the arena was
there, just close your eyes, the only thing wrong the echoes and
sounds were too loose not ultimately defined as if with you there ooing,
roaring, aweing, cheering, gasping thousands as in one mind one
thought one voice when a skate hit a chink and it looked
like last year's champ was taking a header. And
all the time the sound tracks played on,
music for each skate, each
routine, announcers
huge yakking fast
over the background
from rinkside. Try to get
a picture of what this awesome
presentation was like when there you were
in the little living room watching its source on a
20 inch color TV screen. Close to a form of perceptual rend.


I kept smiling a lot in
the scope of such awesome sonic power.
Who would have thought such awesome power was possible.

Yes holy cow !
This was awesome !
In particular that giant
organ seemed to come from a mile
away (I exaggerate) so far away and so far apart
were its speakers in the arena, don't forget
this sound had NOTHING to do with
speakers in the living room there
was only one, the 3 inch tweeter
of the 24 year old Quasar TV,
that was the whole of the
sound source for this
mighty fantastic SONIC image.
I went whisking off at once to see if
I could find a witness. None was around. I
came back and bent to make an adjustment on the
pyramid on the floor, and what do you think happened, the
sound just started to collapse, all the way back into a partial state
of chaos, the TV rattled like its test tubes would shake out of
their sockets and the ice arena sounded like a walkman.
What happened to the sound? How did the sound
come into place in the first place. It
was by chance, tiny movements of
objects caused by impact
vibrations that in
a very unusual
moment caused
loosely vibrating
objects to mutually
re-enforce in mighty ways,
this particularly interesting because
the vibes were not in the range of human voice or
arena organ they were super high frequencies cascading down into
audible harmonic ranges. At least that is how I conjecture the occurrence.
Which lasted for about 10 minutes, a full sized ice arena right in my
living room all I had to do was close my eyes, then presto
back to a boxy little sound to match the little
picture on a 24 year old mono TV.


As you can
tell by the above
limp along paragraph I do
not have the words that flow easy
to describe that event, particularly in
that it was so unexpected, creeping up on me
so to speak when my back was turned.


But
this I do know
happened. Walls are no
boundry what so ever when it comes
to size of an image or power, range, and volume
that can be created by sonic resononces in the open air.
Size is no limit at all. Believe the report that for over 10 minutes
late one afternoon I had a full sized ice arena housing world
figure skating champions moved into my livingroom in
an awesome event that happened by chance. By
chance meant that I did not willfully do
exact steps to make it happen. Willful
exact steps that made another big
major event take place in the
living room occurred at the
end of the experiments,
it was the the last
one done, and is
now called
'The Jaw Dropping Demo'.

read the jaw dropping demo narrative

PULSED SONIC DISRUPTER

That's a pulsed sonic disrupter
sitting under the edge of the pyramid.
It is a cheap quartze clock motor bought at a
hobby store with a tripod made of stiff art paper taped
to its second hand which 'pulses' on step each second. The tripod
slightly off cammed swings around and around endless through the air once
a minute. Positioned in key hot spots such simple disprupters can
perform what you might call miracles in improving a sound
stream by breaking up destructive standing waves.
At first they were used sitting flat (five
came be used). Later a simple hexagon
tube of art paper folded around a
metal hydro extendender, then
cut a short length down
each fold, worked
well as stands
on which the
pulsed disrupters
could be stood on edge
for a far greater gain in their
services. Two that still work have been
running none stop in the living room of the house
where this document is being prepared and typed as of this
very moment, the two (one standing upright on edge on the fireplace
on its six sided stand) serve to improve the sound of the stereo
TV. Without them there would be no base, all high end would
be shrieky and feint, all female voices artificial, and
no stereophonic resonances to speak of at all. With
the pulsed disrupters set in two strategic hot
spots the TV's sound is tolerable for most
all general viewing including sci fi
movies with big sound tracks.
Pulsed sonic disrupters
have played a key role in experiments
from the time of their first implimentation and several
instances are cited in the NEWSOUND narratives in which one of the
pulsed sonic disrupters solved a major problem or overcame
a hurdle. Most all of the photographs have poor
images of pulsed sonic disrupters when
present. This photo above was
good enough to offer the
above magnification.
The thin colored
line on top of
the clock is
a battery.

The whitish object
under the left end of the
glass topped coffee table is a white
clock radio, cheap, one tiny speaker, FM, used
from time to time in quick experiments using two clock
radios tuned to the same station to see what kind of fidelic FM
stereo sound could be generated from the two mono sound
sources via room tuning sonics and excitment. It
(the white radio) was left out of the way
under the table until removed one day
and put in storage upstairs.


The pyramid era
came to an end soon enough.
Although pyramids seemed to at first add
something important into a sound experiment their effect
was not durable, easily vanished by the slightest disruption or touch
to a pyramid, and no matter the effort, the sound stream could
not be coaxed past a certain point when pyramics were
present. The last of the pyramids was dissolved
and each of its constituents fitted with a
vertical holder and placed in strategic
hot spots throughout the main floor
of the house and left in location.
Occasionally they would be rounded
up and used in a bunch for a particular
idea. Toward the end, they were found to work
most suitable as a flow tube with the pyramid parts
strung along a horizontal wire suspended in space. In this
final configuration, pyramid parts became a permanent fixture to the end.

OTHER SONIC DISRUPTERS

FOR DESTRUCTIVE STANDING WAVES

It is very hard to see
but there is now a second object
on the turntable, a flow tube consisting
of a starflake at the back end and a giant starflake
sticking out in space at the front end, set on the edge of the
turntable so that it swings around and around through free space
spoiling disruptive standing waves in a marginal way.

A giant starflake
with thin jewellry brass wire
strung in concentric hexagrams around the
perimeters of the starflake's nested hexagrams. A
smaller starflake (13 snowflakes glued together) is at the
other end of a copper support shaft. At a time after this photo was taken
a way was found to balance this device swinging around and around
on the turnable near the turntable's edge rather than its
center, producing a better effect in smoothing sound.


This ran
for over one and 1/2
years non-stop until suddenly
one day the turntable abruptly stopped
turning, locked solid, could not be turned even
a fraction, a sad demise for this 30 year old DUAL turntable
got at a yard sale for 5 dollars and worked very well
as a rotating flat tabletop for various moving
sonic device experiments. It was found
that the giant starflake winding
through the air turn after
endless turn marginally
broke up destructive
standing waves for
slightly better
overall sonic
regardless
of test.


It was
long gone
by the time of
'The Jaw Dropping Demo'
so what contribution it may have
made to that experiment is an unknown,
but, it is possible, because of the very different
nature of the Jaw Dropper tests that the turntable
effect of the spinning giant starflake
might have been negative. While it
ran it was delicately balanced,
it wobbled slightly in the
air. Several small stainless
steel ballbearings were also rolling
on their own in a depression near the center
spindle hole in random patterns, interesting to watch.
The random pattern ballbearings also had a positive effect.
They clicked as the rolled. You could hear them
all the time, softly going 'click,
click click, click, click,
clickclick', as they
rolled randomly on
the DUAL turntable
in the livingroom. The
turntable was placed to most
advantageously help the TV's sonic.

In fact
those are some under
the pyramid in these next photos.

Two different sized ball bearings can be seen.


Click click click.





Thanks to modern day film
processing and mass manufactured
file, here is the only photograph in the entire
collection which shows the livingroom carpet in approximate
right color and texture - a mottled light beige. In
order to get the color to come out of a dark
original (thanks again to a film lab)
I had to completely white out the
pyramid on the turntable. This
picture was enhanced straight
across, no change was made
to any individual color.












A point is being made.
Latent true color was concealed from
perception in a lousy original. Latent super potent
and resonantly powerful stereophonic sound is latent in lousy
recordings both stereo and mono. And latent 3-D stereo
is ready to unconceal in any photograph or picture.


The point is being made.


GET IT ?
GOT IT ?
GOOD !

THE SOLID WOOD TEST TUBE RADIO

Philco
circ. the 40's
this test tube portable
radio was used several times to
test various experimental settups. The radio
has the standard 60 cycle hum, louder because some of
tubes are starting to go. Most of the experiments were able to
substantially reduce the 60 cycle hum and in more than one experiment
the 60 cycle hum was eliminated completely. This radio has one
small oval speaker with a big magnet on the back. No
experiment worked without the back off completely
seen lying on the floor behind the radio. The
wires some of them are an arial attached
to a lead inside the radio. An AM only
in some experiments it nonetheless
produced reasonably good stereo
(you could tell there was stereo
but would not spend a lot of
money for it). Most interesting
is that high (cymbols) and base turned
out to be in the hiss (typical seeming AM hiss)
which turned out to have the major sound range just not
articulating until an experiment was able to coax it out by
juicing the sound stream with extra resonances created
by hand in the environment by sonic tuning methods
which rejuvinated latent original information
still coming through the hard facts of
the radio's material construction.







OPEN AIR IN A ROW

















These photos
represents a scene
that has some interesting history.
For several weeks the livingroom was dominated by
this experimental array. A 12 inch woofer in the rear corner dangled
by a sturdy elastic band from a pipe on a laboratory stand, its bottom just
an inch or so above the carpet. It dangled at a slight outward
angle, no means was ever found to get it to dangle
vertically without harming its sonic output
so at a slight out-angle it stayed.
In the middle of the living
room were four drivers
dangling by position
from a long pipe
and held in the
open air by elastic
bands. The TV set was in
the other corner to the 12 inch
woofer. Sonic tuners were positioned in
line both in front of and behind the line of dangling
drivers. The distance apart between drivers was critical. There
were four 8 inch drivers of similar but varied design, and an oval 8 inch
driver dangled by elastic from another laboratory stand nearby. At
times only 1, or 2 or 3 speakers, were working at any one
time during a test, in some tests all drivers were
working at once including the 12 inch woofer
in the corner. In other tests only the
woofer in the corner was working.
The entire array was usually
hooked together in series
by one speaker lead and
one channel from the
getto blaster but
stereo hookups
were tried
as well.

MAGNETIC KISS






A new property in sonics
was thought to have been discovered
when shortly after this array was first under
construction two of the speakers climped together the magnet
of one sucking the rim of the next behind to it in a magnetic kiss the
sound instantly getting better. However the betterness was an
illusion. Any sound was so bad that there was improvement
in the kiss however as tests progressed and the sound
got better it soon became apparent that kissing was
hurting the higher (better) ingredients in the
sound stream so thereafter was judisciously
avoided. Placement of sonic enhancers and
tuners in a straight line also prooved
illusionary. At first it seemed like a
good idea but sound quality could
not be improved beyond a certain
point until the devices were
moved back out into more
standard positions in
different hot spots
around the room.





In this zoom
the end speaker can
be seen in a magnetic kiss
with the speaker directly in front.
Abberations in the lens of the cheap 110 mm
camera are noticable, causing warbling in the stereo
image that cannot be seen (the lensing imperfects) in the mono stage.
The jutting support pipe, and elastic band supporting
the first speaker, are seen in the stereo.



SUPER OPEN AIR WOOFER





The original is a very poor quality print so
thanks to Paint Shop Pro 4.12 for the useable enhanced zooms.

Apologies for
a grainy presentation.
This zoom came from the very
dull photo yet one which best showed the
empty speaker box, and dangling 12 inch woofer.
Warbling in the lens of this particular 110 mm camera
in use at this time is more than ever noticable in
both zooms. The fault of the camera was not
seen in the mono pictures so a number
of rolls were taken using this
camera until its mechanism
jambed. The tip of the elastic
band holding it can be seen just
above the woofer. This elastic came from
a supermarket wrapped around three stalks of broccoli.


HAVING FUN WITH SONICS






You might make
note of the speaker box
sitting there. There is nothing in
it, it is just an empty shell. The tweeters and
driver have long since been removed from the faceplace and are
upstairs in storage. The shell is totally empty not even a
wire inside that wire going in there is just stuck in
the end ends in thin air inside. The faceplate
in fact isn't attached it is just leaning against
the shell. The reason why focusing your attention
to such a pointless object was that it and the other
(in a pair) (rigged just as you see them as dummy's) in a
quick test that fooled a listener into thinking that they (the
speaker pair of the getto blaster) had to be producing such obvious
wall to wall stereo and in fact the only thing at work at that moment was
the 12 inch woofer dangling by an elastic band from the lab stand in
the corner. The array in the livingroom was otherwise thus as
just seen in the above photos, the 4 drivers in a row for
instance, plus the 50 year old Philco test tube radio
turned on and set near the rear livingroom wall. The
TV was also on. However, the volume of the TV and
the Philco test tube radio were both cranked to
zero only one channel of the getto blaster was
producing signal, a mono, being fed to the 12
inch woofer playing a rock and roll tape when
in came the guest into the livingroom and was
asked to say which speakers were producing the
stereophonic sound. At this moment the sound was a
stage that extended the full width of the livingroom, from
beyond the patio doors, to beyond and behind the TV in the opposite
corner, the fireplace in the middle of this gigantic sound stage, the stereo
stage having taken more than 7 hours to set up before the guest arrived.
The guest eyeballed the settup from the doorway to the kitchen then
quickly anounced, with the guest's characteristic academic French
accent, that obvious the getto blaster speakers were playing. To
make the point obvious I went over and picked up each box in
an arm, carried them to the kitchen door, and handed them
to the guest, then took the faceplate off one of them to
assure that nothing was inside, not even a wire. The
boxes were set on the floor out of the way. Stereo
along the giant sound stage behind the wall continued
exactly as before. Well then obviously it was the string
of 8 inch woofers dangling in a row by elastics along the pipe
on the livingroom floor, was the next answer. Not so said I walking
over and picking up speaker leads holding them up in the air not attached
to anything then to make the point still holding the leads turned off
the getto blaster. The giant stereo sound stage continued just as
loudly as before. Well, then, it had to be the TV but it was
a real good TV cause of stereo. No in fact, said I, going
over and turning off the TV. Puzzlement increasing the
guest offered a guess then that left only the wooden
Philco test tube radio but that was not it when I
went over and pulled its plug. Well, then, what,
wondered the guest. Well, there, over in the
corner, that 12 inch woofer on the lab stand
its producing it all. Now, we both knew what
that meant. Any woofer held in hand and playing
in the open air produces only a weak pok pok pok for a
sound as its rubbery cone flub-a-dubs in the air making lots of
motion and hardly a sound except poks and an occasional hiss. But here
it was producing a giant sound stage of stereo. Now I freely
confess that this was not concert hall stereo it was a
lot rubbery, too loose, sound ranges subtly came and
went as the music played it was unsteady but very
wide spread and deep into virtual space behind
the whole of the living room wall also space
correct that is left hand parts of the band
were playing in the left hand area of the
stage and right hand similarly, and individual
vocalistist could be pin pointed as to their location
on stage. The stereo was not what stays in mind in memory, it
is the fact that the last thing the guest saw still working was the
device that was producing all of the sound, one 12 woofer in
open air (an impossible situation) producing stereo from
a single mono lead (an impossible situation). That was
one of the most fun filled days leading up to the
famed 'Jaw Dropping Demo', which came
about nearly a year later.


HOT SPOTS

Hot spots are
small locations of greater
sonic excitment. A device works better
in a hot spot. Other spots were spoilers, a device
there would hurt the sound. Often, a hot spot would become a
spoiler during a test or experiment or visa versa. Some hot spots seemed
constant, for instance one spot under the TV and over to the left
toward the wall by a few inches turned out to be particularly
nice for a sonic tuner in causing substantial improvement
in tone, volume, and range of base from the TV and it
stayed constant, something was permanently left in
that spot and any attempts to move it away caused
the TV sound to immediately drop in quality. The
spot was not fixed in a grid. Its focus moved
around a bit ie, from time to time an object
in it was moved by 1/2 inch or so to regain
top pop from that hot spot. In fact sonic
aid in that hot spot ended a rattle in
the TV its little speaker rattled for
months continuously in its low range
sounds a good sound starting up then
dissolving in quick rattle until the
first sonic aid was put in the hot spot
and as if by miracle the rattle vanished to
be replaced by a resplendent new level of deeper
base, particularly at high volume, for the first time
the TV could be cranked to full volume (which was by now LOUD)
and up came more base, and no rattle. Move the sonic aid slightly and
back came rattle and away went base. Move the sonic aid back into
the hot spot and quess what. That was one of the most alive
hot spots ever found in the 5 years of sonic tests. It
transferred over to the arrival of a 28 inch RCA
stereo TV, its right stereo speaker rattled,
until one day in despair the TV was moved
out jutting about 8 inches to the right
off its glass topped round table and
some of the rattle went, and when
the sonic aid (by this time a
pusled sonic disrupter) was
moved around fractionally
within the hot spot, oh
joy suddenly all of the
rattle vanished, but
only when the sonic
aid was on exactly
the right dot in
the hot spot.


Significantly
both TVs had rattling
base that was translated out
by a sonic aid in exactly the same
hot spot. Later when stretched slinkies
came into use the sonic aid in that hot spot
became a spoiler and was removed.

Th re is a sonic tuning object
in the hot spot under the TV. This geometric
arz paper cutout stayed there for over a year until the
fateful day, sticking a screwdriver in a hole in
the back hoping to sharpen the picture a
bit, something electronic went
'spak' and both picture
and sound vanished
in a paff. Too
bad, it had
such good sound,
and a rather good picture
since this Quasar TV was first turned
on in 1967 and it is 1993 when this photo was taken.
The tuning object (a sonic exciter) when first placed under the
TV both immediately stablized the sound, and opened up bottom base in
the TV as steady state sound for the first time. Moving the
object by less than 1/2 an inch when focused in place
caused the bottom base to vanish. Bottom base is
where, for instance, base drum kicks reverb
with long deep echoes that last to the
end of their time, in place of hard
poks or paks common for base even
on many good stereo systems.
Also, hard powerful deep
sound effects such as
explosions in movies
initiate and hang
till the echoes
fade, this is
bottom base.


The arrival
of bottom base was
the bonus when the rattling ended.
All along, the bottom base WAS the rattle.


Don't forget
a 3 inch tweeter
on the right hand side
below the controls was the entirety
of this old TV'S sound generating source.





For readers
who do not know
FM is a high quality
broadcast on two channels
to produce your standard stereo.
Small radios such as clock radios only
have one speaker but have both AM (single band)
and FM channels both FM channels being piped through the
one speaker. The channel thus was to get stereo from that single
output, as well, overcoming the obvious difficulty of tiny tweeter
speakers which inherently can not produce base or high hat or
for the most part drummer's cymbols, however, many
experiments done with such rude devices
(clock radios) readily produced
stereo and on occasion a
heavy metal band
beyond the
monkey
noise.

DONE


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