Author Topic: The Universe loves bass (Read 536 times)

cdf · « **on:** September 10, 2003, 06:09:04 AM »

It seems the Universe itself is a bass fan. Astronomers have noted ripples analogous to sound waves emanating from a black holes (see www.msnbc.com/news/963885.asp?cp1=1) The article mentions a B-flat 57 octaves below middle C. Wonder how big that string would be ...

dnburgess · « **Reply #1 on:** September 10, 2003, 06:34:37 AM »

B flat?! You mean the universe loves heavy metal?

David Houck · « **Reply #2 on:** September 10, 2003, 06:51:29 AM »

It's the same everywhere. The band leader has the bass player staying on the root forever.

Manfred · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2003, 07:22:28 AM »

Humming B-flat for billions of years. Pretty long song that is. I also wonder who the bandleader is.

palembic · « **Reply #4 on:** September 10, 2003, 07:50:42 AM »

Who it is???
I dunno ...but the guitar MUST BE an Alembic seen the sustain LOL!

Paul the bad one

alembic76407 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 10, 2003, 09:55:37 AM »

B-Flat!!!!!! it must be a horn band, I hate playing between the dots

mikedm · « **Reply #6 on:** September 10, 2003, 10:18:47 AM »

so does our passion for the lower register mean we are in tune with the universe? or just matter-sucking drains?

On another note (ha!), naturalists believe that elephants communicate over vast distances, up to 40 miles, in sub-sonic frequencies.

hmmm, matter-sucking; big-eared; wrinkled, grey skin; communicates via low frequencies, oh man, I better stop, the picture isn't looking so good...

palembic · « **Reply #7 on:** September 10, 2003, 10:43:13 AM »

As a matter of fact brother Michael the groove one - there is also a brother Michael the antique one (BTW brother and sisters you gotta click on MIchael's profile: one helloffunicebass!!!! THERE he is hiding is baby!!!!)
Where was I?!
Oh yes ...as a matter of fact that elephant sory IS TRUE!
I'm a long time National Geographic trustee and in one of the past yars there came this report about elephants talking. They discovered it by providing an elephant in each of 3 different groups (females with children - males are solitaires) with transmitters who could be spotted by satellite. They discovered that the movements the three groups made were co?rdinated but the groups were miles and miles from each other away. I don't know if there was actually proof but I thought so.
They discovered they were transmitting ULFrequencies not HEARABLE by man but when you were in the neighbourhood of an elephant transmitting those sounds you immediately became nauseous and got a terrible headache.
No kidding no joke this time!

Paul the elephant one

That discription you gave ...it's TOTALLY ME!!!

(Message edited by palembic on September 11, 2003)

pastorscott · « **Reply #8 on:** September 10, 2003, 10:54:54 AM »

Paul... I used to get nauseous and a headache around a girl i used to date. could she have been a matter-sucking big eared wrinkled grey skinned ol' gal, and I just never saw it??? Also, (back to the B flat) doest this mean God is a bass man??

palembic · « **Reply #9 on:** September 10, 2003, 11:20:57 AM »

Wooooooops!
We're goin' deep here!
Was (is???) God a bass-player.
I dunno ....but what I DO know that the Alembic premises in Santa Rosa are about the closest place to heaven that I can imagine ...for bass-players!
However that this could be denied by the hard working people there.

Paul the bad one

Pastorscott ...that was ME you were dating than?

cdf · « **Reply #10 on:** September 10, 2003, 01:55:25 PM »

I have also heard that elephants (and a few other critters) are capable of generating sub-sonic frequencies. Just recently I was reading some differing conjectures on whether the sub-sonic sounds were rudimentary communication or defense mechanisms. In one experiment people were played the same pieces of music with and without certain ultra low frequencies, almost invariably they reported some degree of nausea and/or anxiety when the music was played with the ULFs. Either way very interesting, but I prefer to think its a long distance elephant jam sessions.

palembic · « **Reply #11 on:** September 10, 2003, 02:19:14 PM »

And something else.
When Brother Paul the fake one/the artist formerly known as DIno was pregnant of Ren?e-Nicole (uh-uh ...I have the feeling that this text is going the wrong way ...well ...you know what I mean) I gave him the advice to excercice his upright bass-playing to comfort the not born-baby. It worked! It also works with just born and very young kids.
So all you pregnant sisters and brothers (I still have the feeling I'm missing here the right english language) ...keep on playing that sweet upright with the deep tone, it' gives a very relaxing mood.

Paul the bad one

Don't try it with your Paganini violin pieces or your Jackson heavy-metal licks!!!!!!!

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 11, 2003, 04:53:44 AM »

I have an album from the seventies called Common Ground by the Paul Winter Consort. On several tracks Winter and/or Paul Mccandles (I believe) play duets with African hawks, wolves, and humpback whales. If I remember the LP liner notes correctly, Paul felt several species here on planet Earth sing in D flat. PS. the album is excellent, recorded in an artist commune in New England.
Mike

mikedm · « **Reply #13 on:** September 11, 2003, 05:31:17 AM »

Paul, the elaphant one - now come on, grey and wrinkly? Now I've got to ask, where does that glow come from, the infusion of amber-hued ale?

Mike

mikedm · « **Reply #14 on:** September 11, 2003, 05:33:51 AM »

Paul, not quite the elephant one - come on, grey and wrinkly? So where does that red glow come from? the infusion of amber-hued ale?

Mike