[sdiy] Re: Standalone PC synths

[harrybissell]

Batz Goodfortune wrote: <snipp'd>

> There's one other thing I've discovered about fan noise if you listen
> carefully. Because of the way the brain works in interpreting sound on a
> kind of fourier basis, (I'll gloss over the mechanics here.) if you really
> let your brain go to town on it, it's own filtering system will start to
> pull out sounds and even voices from the noise. All it takes is for the
> noise to be randomly uneven and your brain (if it's doing it's job
> properly) will start pulling all kinds of amazing things out of it. I had
> long thought about doing this in a DSP. But I have no idea how to achieve
> that. I'm not even entirely sure what happens for my brain to lock in on
> the hidden structures in the noise. But it is fascinating and it can keep
> me entertained for hours. Well minutes at a time anyway. Fun for all the
> family.

LOL. I hear that (very same thing). When I was a kid, in the summer,
late in the
day we'd have a fan going in a long hallway. My parents would take a
nap, and the
whole house would be totally silent, except for the fan. I'd sit in the
chair...
stare at the dust-motes from the setting sun... and basically zone out
on the
fan noise.  There would be this drone, but also other tones that would
come
and go. You could try to pick them out, or just sit back and enter an
alternate
reality.

Later in the 60's this would be called "meditation"... still later it
would be called "drugs"   :^P  The effect is real, nonetheless...

I'm sure there are a class of people, such as Batz and myself for whom
this
might be music. Others, employed to keep the aforementioned off the
streets.

I got some CD from Phil Hendricks (over at AH).
atlatl: pzlon vent http://cloaca.net/

His stuff reminds me very much of this sort of thing. If you want poppy
dance tracks, stay far away.  Each of the cuts will either bore you to
tears (class two,
above). or evoke the feeling of a lazy summer afternoon... lying in the
sun...
next to a pond... on some far distant ALIEN planet (class one, above). 
Pretty cool if you like that.
(I was listening because of some comments that the CD has blown some
tweeters... I wanted to find out HOW.  I can only hear about half of the
music... the other half
is ultrasonic to my aged ears :^)

I too... like rain on the roof. I even have a new metal roof on the
house !!!
It 'could' be a little louder...

H^) harry