Sv: [sdiy] My son's first groove

[Scott Gravenhorst]

I know this is a tad off the thread topic, but I had a dog, a purebred black Labrador
Retriever (named Loki) who liked one particular piece of music that I wrote and
recorded.  Every time I would play that piece - and only that piece - he would come
down into my studio, lay down and be perfectly still and quiet - without being
commanded to do so.  This was always an immediate reaction and without fail.  I did
not train him to do this in any way that I was aware of.  It was the strangest thing
I'd ever seen any of my dogs do.  Unfortunately, he died of an autoimmune disease
that destroyed his platelets when he was only 6 years old.  The piece was written as
a demo for a triangle to near-sine converter and can be found here:
http://home1.gte.net/res0658s/fatman/demo1.html 


"Daniel Araya" <daniel.araya at sr.se> wrote:
>I had a similar experience, I was playing some music for my son 
>and accidentaly put on a hard and fast minimalist techno mix by 
>Mark Verbos. He started "grooving" and when I turned it of he got 
>very angry! :) He was about 14 months at the time. Now he seems 
>to like reggae/dub/dubstep and jungle/breakcore the most, must be 
>all that bass, shuffle and backbeat! 
>
>/d
>
>>>> Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> 2009-01-26 08:45:02 >>>
>Today I played some music on the laptop to entertain me while feeding  
>my son Zachary (who we call Z). I noticed he was happily bouncing in  
>his high chair, and then noticed he seemed to be kind of bouncing in  
>sync with the music.
>
>Curious, I turned down the music. He stopped bouncing, looked  
>nonplussed, and then got mildly fussy. I turned the music back up, and  
>he smiled and started bouncing again.
>
>A few more repeats of this experiment convinced me that he was,  
>indeed, grooving.
>
>So what was Z's first groove? "Party Machine," by Bruce Haack.
>
>"Low low low, like Kurtis Blow.
>Down down down, like James Brown.
>Haack attack is back. Bruce Haack, anti-wack."
>
>Hah!
>
>- Aaron
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