SLINKIES

A PARTIAL STAR OF DAVID
6 ARM STAR PATTERN ARRAY

A star array has
been made with 5 slinkies
pinned to the carpet in 30/60 degree
angles made by inserting a large sheet of paper
on which is drawn a giant Star of David the cross section of
the hexagram on the sheet is 14 inches, a large geometry drawing. An
ice cream soda dish (6 sided) props the center node in the
air since this produced first useable sound. Three
sonic disrupters in proximity to the array
boost the sound, in this test there
is big connection in the exact
place found suitable for
the discrupters, for
instance hot at
the slinky
ends.



































Stretching
under the TV is
deliberate. The exact
tension in the stretch over the
edge of the end table strut, and the last
part of an inch to where pinned near the wall, were
all telltale. Moving the end even a part of an inch could
make or break frequency situations in the sound stream, for instance
trumpets could be clear and right then fractured and shrieky
by moving the end of the slinky under the TV one way
or another by only 1/4 of an inch. An extra
sound in the base range for instance
in the base drum beat by petal
was also noticed in where
exactly the slinky's
ends were pinned
and stretched.

STRETCHED STANDUP SLINKY





Here is the first
use of a stretched hexagon slinky.
Strung end to end on a plastic yard ruler (1 meter long)
the slinky worked best when the ruler was turned so its thin edge
leaned against the wall, a position almost impossible to
maintain, the slightest movement on the floor would
cause the ruler to fall flat against the wall
or keel over. But, when balanced just
right, there was greater sonic
energy in the sound stream,
sonic meaning that long
distance echoes could
be heard into depth
and you could hear
space around the
instruments and
footsteps echoed
in the room just as
live for instance in a
movie with the heroine in long
heels walking across a marble floor. These
kind of effects not usual in stereo sets or stereo TV
are most noticable in a sonically excited environment build totally
of open air resonances from one (or more) speakers operating in open air.


To solve the
problem of the falling
yard ruler, wooden stakes at first
one then many were got at a nearby Buildall Center
the stakes actually dowels to be cut up and used to make cabinate
drawers and furnature, these dowel rods proved ideal on which to stretch a
slinky first in 4 foot lengths then later 8 feet snapped off to 7
so they could stand vertically upright against walls in
the house as major stabilizers in both nearby
locations (near a sound source for instance
behind the TV) and at long distance for
instance leaning upright against the
wall of the corridor at the front
of the house. Ah so this photo
shows the first time a slinky
was used in stretch fashion.


A QUICK SHORT STORY


During the rapid
expansion when stretched
standup slinkies were being tried
first one, then another, then another, one
landed in the main floor small washroom behind the
toilet. The washroom was accessed off the corridor near the
front of the house, through the laundry room door, then a right
angle jog through another door into the washroom. One day
that slinky and rod were both taken needed somewhere else
for an experiment. For several days after the sound was
poor, nothing seemed to work to coax anything of
worthwhile effect in the sound stream and this
perplexed because memory seemed to serve
up recall of a whole lot better days ago.
The cough that makes the brain jump
occurred - wait a minute wasn't
there not a slinky here in
the washroom standing
behind that toilet.
It was retrieved.
Put back in place, at
once that remembered better
sonics was back in motion in the sound stream.
It turned out that sonic projection into the washroom was
recurring. Sonics were clearer and more stereophonically heard inside
the washroom coming from the far away living room, than in the laundry
room alongside. That clarity in the washroom was coupling back to
the major sound stream in the living room. The current tests
it turned out, needed the coupled input of the louder
purer sonic recurrence occurring in the small
accoustic chamber of the washroom at
long distance from the sound
source. The stretched
slinky tucked in
the corner
behind the toilet
tank stayed until the end
of the experiments when everything
was moved to a new location in South Ottawa
but this new location being too small
sound tests have not resumed.

SUCCESFFULLY RAISED SLINKY

One colorized version
shows the elevated height better.



The first
successfully raised
slinky. Prior to that it got
ludicrous. Thick copper wire in red
plastic sheath was tried, standing tall at 15 1/4
inches a circular hook at the top, the moment the slinky was
attached to the standup 'Indian Rope Tricks', they slowly bent over,
softened, just folded slowly over to the ground couldn't
support the weight at all. Previous to that, the
'Rope Tricks' had worked supremely well
lifting steel slinkies stretched
across platform geometric
cutouts to heights
ranging from 6
to about 17
inches in
the one
experiment
that willfully
yielded Airframe all
the way up through the front
of the house into the middle of the
street, in learning that the steel slinky
plaforms as you see some of them in the previous
photos seemed to boost Airframe. The only problem with the
phenomenal Airframe was that the sound was really shitty, nothing
else can be said about it base it had and high end and of
course stereo from mono sources but woe was it
distorted into weird sounds and nothing
using the raised platforms with
steel slinkies dangling ice
worms bonging up and
down in air could
do anything to
improve
that aweful
sound. The thick
copper wire came from
up the nearby main street a
few blocks where a new local library
was being built I went by asking if any scap
copper wire could be had an electrician pointed to a dumpster
out on the parking lot saying we just threw all of it out turned out a
sizeable tangle used for 550 volt wiring for the heating and
other main systems was free to cart away home, which
I did, somejoyed, anxious to try an experiment
raising the steel slinky platforms right
up in the air, which worked and
didn't the Airframe was
phenomenal the
fidelity the
opposite.
The steel
3-legged tripods
from across the street
in the mall at a large nursery
were perfect for raising the stretched
plastic slinkies. Short story told fast it was a
son of a bitch to get the six way array raised all together
in the air at the same time, the usual first one corner
would collapse then another but gradually over
several days all six corners ended up in
the air at the same time and at that
moment a whole new round of tests
began in earnest, because,
right away, it was
learned that the
raised slinky
array had
stablized
the sound stream
for the very first time.
Stablized meant you could walk away
and leave it for hours and come back and the
sound was much the same just a few quick adjusts here
and there and back would come the better sonics in the sound stream,
an experimental settup staying thus in focus for days on end.

By the way
you should have
seen the original from
which this enhancement was made.
Well, what the heck, why not. Here is the original.







You could start
thinking I'm a real bad
photographer. Not so. Look at the
camera angles. The problem was real cheap
cameras (sometimes the flash didn't go off. And REAL
cheap photo labs, the one's most heavily advertised and in
fact give you low quality by automated machines which will look at the
brightest moment and its color and automatically adjust the
rest of the picture according, which is why you can
get your red car look completely blue parked
next to purple grass, the sun reflecting
off the windshield you see fooled
the sensors in the quicky lab
silicon chips and no human
working for minimum
wage is intelligent
enough to spot the difference
or actually the real problem is they don't care.
So guys like us get stuck with the goods. Hope you can see
your way to having a soft spot in your heart for what I have been able
to do with what seemed like an archive collection of 600 totally unuseable
photographs. Now two hundred have been used I think to
good advantage using skills whipped together
self taught on home computer simple
graphic software. Hope you
agree.


TWO SLINKY ARRAYS


Raised slinky arrays
used wooden rods raised in the
air on tall tripods normally used for florals
at weddings and wreaths. The rods were slung in cradles
made of simple thin brass jewellry wire making it easy to raise or
lower the end of a slinky. The slinkies were plastic hexagrams stretched.
The amount of stretch was significant in sound quality, too much
stretch hardened the sound and not enough stretch muffled
the sound. The angle of left-over stretch at the
end of a rod was also significant no clear
cut exact such as 30 degrees as each
end had to be noteably tested
for sonic effect before being
pinned to the carpet by straight
pins that had round colored plastic heads.

Above are two
comparative photos the
1st shows an inital 4 foot square rod
array, the 2nd shows a final 6 foot round rod array.


Two raised arrays were tried
the 2nd evolving from the 1st.
The first was of square sided 4 foot
rods, the second of round 6 foot rods, the 6 footers
far superior in both control and overall positive effect on sound.
Once the 2nd array was up and running after endless siege lasting days
testing its orientation and stretch it proved so stable it was
never changed again, left as is for several months.
Turning the whole thing a few degrees to
a new alignment relative to a main
axis that continued from out
in the living room to
under the TV, was
a herculean task
in that the steel
tripods liked to tip
over if any tension was
exerted them that did not fall
exactly along a trajectory comprising
two of its tree metal legs.

Here is a photo of the 1st raised array
when it was first set up.







To tell you the truth
I haven't the slightest idea what
the dark small object is that comes out on a
power cord to mid photo. I don't know what that is but
it is there in that experiment, doing something, whatever
it was. Otherwise I wouldn't have taken the photo.


A raised
array of 6 foot
round rods was the final
embodiment both stable and easy to
adjust the round thin wooden rods offering
better all around effect in
the sound stream.


To repeat old
news, the first successfully
raised array was made of three 4 foot
square rods criss crossed in 60 degree angles at a
center point. The best sound was gained by turning the rods to
diamond orientation, that is, rotated by 45 degrees so their shafts
presented facets horizontally to the sound stream, an orientation
that was very unstable the rods invariably rotated back to
flat in their thin brass wire slings, a real job to
get one or all rods re-rotated back to diamond
facet profile often a rod or whole array
collapsing to the floor just trying
to subtly, carefully, slowly
getting a rod rotated 45
degrees a rod slipping
back to horizontal
many times often
before it would
stay put for
awhile.







A laboratory
stand not in use stands
by the back wall. Several were picked
up in 1981 by driving 40 miles out of town
to a flea market in a large barn following a rumor it
being that one of the universities had core dumped an old accumulation
of lab stuff the auctioned goods getting spread around and sold
fast the last of it in the hands of the old duff running
the flea market 40 miles out of town. True enough
a small pail of clamps, and several stands
including a Fisher with porcelain base
were carted home for a few dollars
and all have had since uses
too numerous to count.
You can't just go to
a store and buy the
clamps. For instance,
science supply dealers list
them at 125 dollars each in their
catalogues, just for a single clamp. The
core dump buy was a bonanza, a lucky strike, indeed.
There you have it. I always like to use the word 'indeed' at
least once in any piece of writing, waiting for the moment when the word
can be used in the most aweful cliche way just the way it is used
in science articles, indeed, those very articles discussing
that yes indeed this is the most to say about that
least significant matter, indeed, the most
profound of modest moments to
get boosted by that word.
Indeed. It seems
a scientist
used the word
once and got away
with it now many scientists
use it all the time more and more to
emphasise the most interesting elements of their
failed experiments. I have one that came from an astronomy
site by a team of collaborators from several universities reporting on
a failed attempt at a new approach by computer modelling the
making of spiral arms in galaxies by the notion of
gravity pressure waves each given a scientific
number code based on a proposal of 1977
tried unsuccessfully in 1988 written
theoretically through several
published papers and tried
anew in 1997, the 1997
paper with dozens of
names included and
cited references
reporting on
the failure
of the new
round of models
suggesting a number
of newer models that might
possibly be tried indeed a very
impressive paper, reporting a failed
experiment, one of many that have failed so
far pursuing a single idea about flat spiral arms
in galaxies the main problem of course that galaxies are
not flat, a fact not even hinted in the mentally stoned earnest
seriousness of the 1997 paper.
Wink wink. Indeed.


Whoah got to
use a whole bunch of
useless words, such as profound.
I enjoyed writing that last paragraph.

I can't cite
collaborators in the
Newsound experiments since no
one wanted to involve, and can't cite
references since nothing exists. How many
references do you know citing that 100 % STEREO
sound can be got from 100 % MONO sound sources. There
are thousands of references prooving that you CAN'T get
stereo from MONO. What is the point of citing
them they are completely wrong.


There is
hardly a textbook
or reference paper anywhere
that does not discuss sound waves in
terms of straight forward and back longitudinals
in fact all show the girl or guy standing waving a skipping
rope up and down and one, two, three, sometimes more
waves are photographed moving up and down the
clothes line and this is what is claimed
to produce the whole of sound
including stereophonics
a wave on a skipping
rope held by an
inept kid who
hasn't got
the concept of
turning the rope in
a hologram suite that is
fractually completely six and 12
sided, and then keeping the rope tightly
locked in a particular form the more tightly held
the form the more the rope generates all around sound by
re-enforcing impact vibrations that cascade down
from super high frequencies by cubic
harnonics into those that can
be heard by humans


And there.
You have as much
theory as you are going to
get from me. I cite the above
paragraph for reference.

TEST TUBE RADIO IS TESTED

Two pulsed sonic disrupters
are seen on the floor. The experiment
was to see what the raised slinky array would do
with the test tube radio's sound. Not very much, the 60 cycle
buzz from the voltage hurtling through the test tubes was as loud as and
even louder than normal and much work could only dampen the humm
not squelch or eliminate it. Improvement on the radio's
AM was better (it had no FM) more opened up sound
range range particularly base (with use of
the disrupters) but no good stereo
or even any reasonable stereo
came from this test the
test was very short
lived about two
hours spent.


The photo was
taken in significance
of the amount of base that was
coaxed out of an otherwise none existent
base in the natural operating state of the radio.
At best it is the worst of mantle
radios of that era.

THE CLOTHES LINE

This major flow tube was
tried here for awhile by the
table and pointed toward the center
node of the raised slinkies (the center of the
slinkies' 6 point star array). Then was moved into a position
between the two outer arms that aimed into the livingroom proper and there
stayed occasionally being shifted at one end or the other by an inch
or two to accomadate refocusing necessitated by other changes in
the sonic environment brought about by random household
living. In further tests and experiments the
'Clothes Line' never had to be moved
from its place between the
slinky star array arms.








THE ORIGINAL



Up the center
of the flow tube showing
the axis running through the points
of center is in a perfect horizontal parallel
with the floor, in other words the geometry centers are
lined up in a perfectly straight line.


Two views
the first as is
a dark photo, the second
given a real screetch of lighteners to
coax some background details out of the dark media.







PARAMETERS


The height above the
floor of the central axis is
exactly 15 1/4 inches for good reason.
The TV is on a coffee table 15 1/4 inches high such
that the TV'S twin stereo speakers are 16 1/4 inches above the
floor. A great deal of work had gone into room tuning the TV's sound
throughout the whole range of the main floor environment of
the house, when it was discovered that an ecliptic
axis issues horizontally across the glass
surface of the TV and through the
room maintained throughout
the house at a height
of 15 1/4 inches,
this ecliptic
axis containing
a stronger clearer signal
throughout its range and transferring
to other surfaces for instance 15 1/4 inches above
the surface of a worktable. Learning this, when the stretched
slinky hexagram array was later erected, it was raised above the floor
to a height of 15 1/4 inches where it was found the slinkies'
performance was dramatically improved. The flow tube
pictured above, when first assembled, had cutout
objects hanging from a stiff wire that was
parallel to the floor. When extra work
was exerted to slant the support
wires so the center points of
the geometry cutouts were
uniformly level at 15 1/4
inches the sonic performance of
the flow tube dramatically improved.
This flow tube is called 'The Clothes Line'.
In initial version it was erected on the table by
the patio door of smaller cutouts and at one point the
core of a roll of paper towel inserted through the center openings
of the cutouts to create a unique flow tube within the flow tube and it
worked, sort of, when in balance there was lots of new goodstuff
to play with in the sound stream but the heights of the
paper cutouts of different sizes on different sized
paper tripods was uneven the tube up the cores
causing torgue which constantly shifted the
flow tube out of focus, it could not be
maintained, the idea put on the back
shelf because it was a good one it
has promise for future tests.
There is no existing photo.
Because the small flow
tube on the table by
itself (without
core tube)
seemed limited,
a bigger one was concieved
started by racing across the intersection
to the White Rose Nursury for a supply of smaller steel
tripods and the largest of the paper cutups rounded up for a test,
which worked, the major flow tube called 'The Clothes Line'
was a success the first time tried. So here it is in many
latter day photos. Once it was erected, numerous
times the position of each cutout was
adjusted, more cutouts added in,
some taken out, until this
final version with its
cutouts sequentially
sized and spaced.
Both kinds of
spacing were
tried, even, like
regular gaps in a bar code,
and in geometric progression the gap
to each next cutout proportionately larger, both
kinds offering promise but hard to guage at the fine line
due to the fundamental cruidity of the paper cutouts. This version
seen in the photos have the cutouts spaced by ear, that is, by listening
for best effect when moving each cutout slowly back and forth
along the support wire. The spacing is partially
geometric, with uneven expansion per gap
progressing from the smallest gap
at the small cutout end.

QUASAR'S STASH OF CHEWIES

Once again a wobbling
image from the $16 110 mm Kodak
Camera sold brand new at K-Mart. It seemed
like such a good buy. The only problem is the lens
was a piece of stamped plastic. Mono images look ok but in
Virtual Stereo 3-D, major distortions in the lens are obvious. That is a
pole lamp in front of the patio window. It had nothing to do
with sound experiments except that its exact position
was shifted around by an inch or two
every now and then.







Quasar's (the dog') stash
of chewies have been gathered
up and piled in the left corner out of
the way during critical sound tests. Within two or
three days the chewies would have been redistributed back through
the living room in particular hot spots the ever diligent dog
could particularly hear. Most all chewie placements
by the dog cooled or ended sharp shrills or hot
spikes of strident extra sound that subtly
plagued the sound stream from the
RCA stereo TV when operating
for view or background
listening. It was
often on a music
channel which
broadcast good
listening orchestral,
jazz, and big band all in Mono


In watching the dog
do this the sense would want
to deny the perceptions. Quasar would
drop a chewie and stare concentrating for a few
seconds then give the chewie a slight swipe or nudge with
a paw or nose then immediately walk away as the sound stream changed
to better squelch. It would seem (the perception) that the
dog was perhaps clumsily lucky but no (the senses)
could hear change that could not be improved.
I would go over (after Quasar left) and
try and fine tune the chewie to no
avail it was always best in the
exact spot and orientation
where Quasar had placed
it, without exception.


It turns out that
the casual seeming swipe
was always exactly the amount
needed to fix the chewie in the best
spot. Like all careful wildlife not an extra
move or ounce of energy is wasted in getting a job
done. Quasar the little brown dog
was no different.


Mono broadcast as the
TV background music channel
always ressurrected in stereo in the
giant sound stream image in the living room.
It took a lot of work to supress the sonics and harmonics
to arrive back at a mono sound, just for comparision now and then once
environmental sonic tuning was in place at long distances
throughout the house, a plateau which came
slowly over several months.

STRETCHED HEXAGON SLINKIES SOLVED
MANY LONG TERM PROBLEMS

Slinkies
started out as just
several plastic round slinkies
arced like inch worms in a star pattern on
the living room floor, then plastic hexagon slinkies were
discovered at the craft store. Their use began as shown in the following
first photograph, then were lifted cross nodes supported in the air
by six sided vinegar bottles, then 4 foot long square wooden
shafts with the slinkies stretched also raised at the
nodes by the vinegar bottles, then steel tripods
got from White Rose Nursery across the street
these tripods used for wreaths at funerals
but worked even better to raise the
array of slinkies entirely up
in the air to a height of
exactly 15 1/4 inches to match
the height of the coffee table on which
sits the TV and now also the slinkies strung on
6 foot round wooden dowel rods. No photos exist of several
of these stages, the photos taken handed back by photo lab operators
grinning about how the black pictures didn't reproduce and not saying that
their equipment was having problems that customers shouldn't know
about. You get such news later, long after the damage has
been done, by a chatty technician remembering when
the machines failed and no one was told the
processor kept taking the money and
blaming the black prints on
your camera.

TO REPEAT SOME PHOTOS

The slinkies
advanced from this
(first photo) to this (last photo)
over several weeks of daily testing and stayed
thus for another couple of months dominating the living room
with tests going on all the time culminating in 'The Jaw Dropping
Experiment', the end come because the second channel of the getto blaster
finally blew, and a couple of weeks later the whole thing was
dissolved and packed in boxes for a move across town to
another location which is too small, the sonic
experiments have never been resumed. The
last was 14 months ago as of date
today circ. May 1997.


HOW WELL THE SLINKIES WORKED

After four hard years
this simple expendiency was
the first means found to stablize the
sound stream. Stablize meant that the sound was
always good, a little better, a little worse, in turns due to
daily household living but never deteriorate beyond a certain point
and when something extra was set up it could last for hours
undiminished because of the stablizing effect of the
stretched hexagon slinkies. They were kids toys
a couple of dollars each and made in the
orient for no other purpose but to
sell color since they did not
work hardly at all as
slinkies too stiff.


Steel slinkies
were tried in various
hand made embodiments some quite
elaborate for awhile and worked rather well
but a solid wall was reached experiments using steel
slinkies could not be advanced beyong a certain point this was
due to the shape and metallic constituent of the steel slinkies themselves
they were not conducive to higher end (super good) open air
sonic resonances. Over a month went by during this
era with dozens of different tests tried
all coming to an end point where
further advance stalled with
the use of steel slinkies.
All steel slinkies were
finally removed from
the experiments.


MASTER TEMPLATE USED
TO LAY OUT THE SLINKY ARRAYS

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